MSUSpartan wrote:
Don't know how I missed this thread originally. I'm 33, generally otherwise healthy (high blood pressure, but it doesn't limit me in any way), and started wetting the bed again 3 years ago. I wet as a child, around the age of early elementary school. I also "stopped" wetting, but still had an incident once or twice a year up until my 20's.
When I started wetting again, it was just after a cancer scare, and I'd just started a new job, and bought my first home. I think stress may well have played a roll in my resurgence, but also my history. I started wearing diapers to bed after a few weeks. My wife was generally supportive, but clearly uncomfortable. My doctor ultimately had nothing usefully to offer on the matter. As I don't have any daytime problems, he ruled out a UTI, offered some more invasive tests, but suggested that it was probably just history plus stress.
I've since switched to cloth diapers, and disposables for travel. My wife is much more comfortable around the diapers now (can't well hide the cloth diapers), and for now I just live with it. I wake up wet about 40-50% of the time, but it doesn't change much in my life.
I started wetting the bed regularly again once I turned 50. I was a chronic bedwetter as a kid and throughout my teens. I saw the doctor about it and was refered to a urologist and the continence nurse. Well they couldn't pass it off this time with the old adage "Oh don't worry he'll grow out of it." The urologist did various tests which were inconclusive but the general feeling is it is caused by my enlarged prostate and some daibetic nerve damage, plus I have an unstable bladder which I am told is probably the cause of my bedwetting when younger and nowadays would have been diagnosed. I have got used to having to wear nappies again at night and take vesicare which helps a little but to be honest I just get on with life. My incontinence and nightly bedwetting is just a minor annoyance compared with what some people have to deal with. I am lucky to have a very supportive wife who isn't bothered by my wetting.