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So I was wondering when everyone started having incontinence and if their was a cause of it what that was?
I started having bladder issues with control 2 years ago at the age of 18. I have had an OAB my whole life but the last 2 years have been where I have started losing control and since then I have seemed to lose more and more of my control.

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-full time graduate student with urge urinary incontinence due to an overactive bladder

Mine started about three years ago with at age 60 when I started to have significant after urination leakage due to BPH. Since then my BPH has gotten worse and so has the leakage. I've also developed some urge incontinence and frequent urination issues.

My bladder issue started almost 3 years ago, went from post bathroom dribbles to full floods in a short time frame now most of my control is gone and what ever is left is going to.

couple years ago for me. Wet the bed one night. Thought it was weird but didn't make a big deal about it. then it happened again a week later. then again and again and again gradually until it was a nightly thing. Daytime frequency and urgency started, then a few minor accidents here and there. That gradually built up to major gushes and accidents became a many times a day event.

I'm 36 and the doctors just threw the OAB label at it. I manage with diapers and am done with all the medical crap.

Early teens to be honest and it was slowly processing over the years to hit me with overwhelming power in late teens - finishing high school. I won't ever forget this period as I was utterly destroyed inside, lost in the world and didn't know what to do with myself at all. I was afraid of telling my friends, I was afraid of people in college learning about. I've been seeing my therapist 3 times a week and was just scared guy, was asking why this happens to me etc. Why me? I overcame it in college though through harsh reality and experience that brought upon me - I realized that adult people are aware of issues that other people has and they keep their opinion to themselves and that people are actually more understanding than we take them for

So far mine is similar except it has never progressed to more than a few times a week at night but during the day it is now to the point of a few minor accidents and the occasional large gush some days and other days I'm still dry

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-full time graduate student with urge urinary incontinence due to an overactive bladder

My urgency and pelvic pain started several years ago. Failed meds and other conventional treatments over the years led me to consider alternative therapies such as acupuncture which didn't help either. The diagnosis of nonbacterial prostatitis was made but it doesn't mean anything when you can't treat it. As the urgency gradually worsened and the the pain of holding my urine got worse, I started wearing diapers to treat the symptoms. I can live a full life without worrying about urgency and without having pain.

My incontinence is the result of a surgical mishap when I was 14 years old. I'm 75 now. So I've been dealing with bladder-control issues for a long time. Following the surgery, I bled excessively and received a large number of blood transfusions. Then I developed a serious infection that nearly killed me and remained in hospital for a bit over three months. I eventually recovered completely except for the fact my bladder control is severely impaired. When I first got out of hospital, I had to wear a cloth diaper with plastic pants 24/7; and believe me wearing a diaper to high school in a small town in the 1950's was not fun. My urologist recommended that I practice what there days would be called Kegel excercises, and I was a fanatic about doing them several times a day. As a result, by the time I went away to university, I had gotten to the point that I could generally go without a daytime diaper provided that I was always in a place where I could get to a bathroom with in a few minutes when an "urge" struck. However, when going on a long drive or writing an examination, I still needed a daytime diaper; and I have never again been dry at night. Things went on like that until I was in my forties, at which point my daytime symptoms worsened to the point that I had to go back to wearing a diaper 24/7.

Despite my bladder-control problem, I am and have always been otherwise reasonably healthy; and I've managed to lead a full and almost normal professional and personal life. Incontinence is a major nuisance, but you can manage it well enough that it need not prevent your from doing almost anything that you want and/or need to do.

Thank God for the ongoing development of better and better adult diapers.

Incon, If you survive being a teen in diapers the rest had to be easier, not easy, but easier. Had two friends who had to wear at night, girl next door and best friend almost across the street. As you said, only diapers then were cloth with plastic pants. They wet to mid teens. Always felt so bad for them, but also was a good friend about it. Support helps at all ages. I started after Cancer (prostate) surgery. THe expected 3-6 months in diapers went to a year, then two and now at 14 years. Still it is better than your struggle. Papa

My incontinence is due to autonomic neuropathy. I started exhibiting symptoms that were seemingly unrelated back in 2008. It all started with enuresis. Autonomic Neuropathy is a disabling condition where the nerves of the autonomic nervous system, which control the involuntary systems of the body, malfunction. It causes issues with heart rate, breathing difficulty, bladder and bowel dysfunction and other digestive issues such as constipation and diarrhea. I have trouble swallowing, heartburn, nausea, and I also don't really sweat making the threat of heat exhaustion/stroke very real. I don't really spend a lot of time outside so I have to take vitamin D3 tablets. In some cases, death can occur from sudden "silent" cardiac arrest (or a heart attack with no symptoms) or acute respiratory failure. I am treated by the Mayo Clinic.