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Diapered4Life247, I presume that you have heard of the phrase HNG? You seem to be searching for fun etc, but you have registered and not bothered to fill in anything about your profile etc. How do you really expect people to trust you etc without even the basic information?

The 60% is based on everyone over the age of 17. It consists of the base figure of 40-50% from direct US sales of disposable diapers PLUS the estimated import of disposable diapers PLUS the estimated sales of cloth diapers PLUS the estimated usage of adult pull-ups and disposable underwear. Considering this, 60%, in my opinion, would be highly underestimating the total sales and therefore the total usage of some form of protection. Sarah-ab, the actual figures are NOT important. The point that I am trying to make is that there is a much larger number of people that wear compared to that that don't wear. Also, even in 2009, this is still a very much personal secret that is not discussed with anyone. A lot of people are even afraid to discuss it with their partner never mind a Doctor or a statistician.

Some information that you might have forgotten but also find interesting - From birth, most infants excretory process is fully functional, and will fuss before they need to void. One of the first things most infants learn is to void into diapers, which becomes is a source of comfort and protection to them. Society tells us that to be macho (male ego) we have to suppress our infantile urges. The suckling urge that most spend months developing before birth, and that sates most infants by sucking on thumb / pacifier / bottle / breast is one of the reasons that cigar and cigarette smokers begin smoking, and is also the major reason that causes so much difficulty in quitting. This suckling urge is also sated by other oral fixations - chewing on pen/pencil; biting fingernails etc Most females tend to collect plushies OR hold onto their own one from childhood - so that they can secretly sate the infantile side of their personality. This will surprise you - most of the population of the world are, in some way, an infantilist - ie they fit broadly into the definition of the term 'infantilist'. Think of it this way, before you found out about this lifestyle, what did you think about your actions - as a DL / AB etc? How many people, do you think, have similar feeling yet are unaware of the groups etc and/or are afraid to act on their feelings for fear of being typecast as a pedophile and/or weird. Consider this, how fearful are you of not fitting in - AND who set this group of normal people when everyone is different? According to the disposable diaper industry, national US sales of adult diapers amounted to $800 million in 2000 and is growing by 10% per year. With the average adult diapers costing $1, and the average person would wear 3 per day, 800 mil / (3 x 365) = 800,000 approx full time wearers in a population of 300 million approx 20% of the population, which is more than three times whom is registered as incontinent. Therefore, either 14% of the US population (in 2000) wear full time for fun, OR up to 45% of the US population wear at least one diaper a day. Summing up these calculations, greater than 55% of the US population wears an adult diapers at least once a day.This does not include the 'pull ups' range / disposable underwear / cloth diapers NOR does it include the import sales of adult diapers. It is conservatively estimated that over 60% of the US adult population (3 out of every 5 people) wear diapers for either choice OR need. This can easily be extrapolated to state that out of every 5 adults in the world 3 wear diapers either part time or full time. Add to this that there is 60% of the population past diaper wearing age and below adult age. This means, only 20% of the whole world population, 1 in every 5 people do not wear diapers at all. Is this the normal people that typecast diaper wearers as weird? Considering all above, 'diapers' as a popular key word should not be surprising. Sources - web search - too many sites to list all here

Plastic pants, or more correct PVC (poly-vinyl-chloride) pants contain a chemical plastizer to keep the plastic from going hard. I have yet to find a supplier for this, but any type of detergent / soap will remove it. The best way to wash / clean plastic pants is to rinse them by hand in cold water first - to get rid of poop etc, and then in luke warm water. Then, using a dry towel, pat off the excess water and using a coat hanger - the plastic kind, hang then with the hanger holding them open and let them drip dry in warm dry place away from direct heat. Unfortunately, most baby products - diaper rash cream / baby oils etc and body oils will remove the plastizer, and as a result, the pants will eventually harden and crack normally around the waist and/or leg holes. The longest that I have got out of a pair of plastic pants (and I wear 24/7/365 ) is about 16 months, but average about 12 months. The novelty plastic pants (normally very noisy hard plastic usually marketed as vinyl) don't last that long but good quality (very soft and flexible) plastic pants will. Natural rubber pants with stitched elastic last much longer - 5+ years, as long as you get them not form fitting - IE with enough rubber to bellow out and cover with ease a diaper. Also, since plastic pants are designed to be discrete, the measurements are for form fitting close to the body. As a result, 'waist measured' pants will tear before they wear out or crack. To avoid this, I order and wear plastic pants that are normally 2-3 sizes bigger than my waist (to allow for bellowing and flexability) over disposables, and 5-6 sizes bigger over cloth. To reduce wear and friction rash, I wear a pair of underwear (normally boxer shorts) or a onesie over the plastic pants. Nighttime, it is normally a cotton or fleece sleeper.

plusmbr, as I have said in http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.ph...rt=#entry191996 , item #15 and #14, gall bladder removal does not directly cause or create IBS or bowel incontinence. The effects that you are encountering is the dumping of bile - which was already there before the gall bladder removal. Your Doctor or dietitian should probably have told you to regulate the oils - a suggestive diet is http://www.gallbladderattack.com/gallbladd...gallbladderdiet which will properly regulate the fats in your body.

The only time I use a booster (a pampers or huggies size 5) is when I have to wear a disposable overnight. Yes they work and increase the absorbency, but only if the diaper is not on tight ie there is room for the two diapers to expand. Daytime usage adds too much bulk - even with baby diapers - when the diaper expands, to comfortably carry on my day while wearing. If you are looking for that thickness that you remember from babyhood, use a number of flat cloth diapers and twist fold them to suit. Make sure that when you put them on that the cover from your belly button to your back. Nothing, in my opinion, can compare to a multilayer cloth diaper that is so thick that I can't even waddle correctly so I have to crawl, and it is so comfortable and secure feeling when I go to sleep like that.

Tena have a number of diapers in their range. The tena flex in a normal OR super is absorbent enough to last most of an evening, but is easy to change if need be while standing up. The tena slip is more absorbent, but not as easy to change while standing. As a result, the thicker super OR maxi is required. Tena pull ups tend to be disappointing for all other than very light leakage. To properly answer this question, you need to know:- 1 How revealing / hidden will your diaper area be. 2 How long do you need to wear between changes 3 What will you be drinking - alcohol acts as a diuretic = you will wet more often and in larger quantities. 4 How mobile will you be. Adult disposal diapers are designed for immobile adults. That means the more mobile you are, the less your diaper can hold. To increase the absorbency, use a pampers size 4/5 as a stuffer (remember to slice the plastic backing of the pampers) If you could wear cloth diapers and plastic pants, I doubt that you would soak that enough to leak - will your dress cover this? As with all these disposable diapers, it is advisable to wear a pair of plastic pants over them, and then a pair of underwear over that. Also, if you didn't know, disposable diapers expand more the more liquid they absorb (unlike cloth) so although the diaper lines etc is hidden under the dress, will the lines show as the diaper gets fuller AND will the diaper leak along those lines. A cloth diaper does not have those concerns. I have found that pull-ups - (Tena, Attends, Kimberly Clarke, Molicare, Pampers, Huggies etc ) are pathetic at holding over long periods of time while mobile - say at a function / party (drinking soda and eating snacks etc = pull-ups last for one or two hrs, while a diaper lasts about 4 hours. The flex will last a few hours, but they are quick and easy to change while standing in a public bathroom stall.). What I normally wear is a Tena Slip Maxi if the chances of changing are remote OR a Tena flex - if the chances of changing are available. Either, I stuff with a pampers 5 and wear a pair of plastic pants and then a pair of boxer shorts over them.

Punk180, at this stage, over 100 people have told you that to become diaper dependent, you have to wear diapers 24/7/365. There is NO other safe way to achieve this. Please stop asking the same silly question in other forms - yes, your bladder will void in certain circumstances, as will your bowels void in similar circumstances - but that does NOT lead to incontinence. If you wish to make yourself permanently incontinent, get a knife and cut your spinal cord just below your neck. - YES you will be incontinent, but you also will be wheelchair bound for the rest of your life, and you WILL be treated like a baby. dave_the _baby, you are correct that the heat relaxes the detruser, but it is contraction of the detruser and relaxation of the external sphincter that causes one to void. It is the rhythmic beating of the water on the stomach the triggers the voiding. Heat DOES play a part as cold water will cause the internal sphincter to contract, and also the penis to contract as a protection mechanism.

quabsbay, please calm down. It is extremely difficult to break the sacral vertabrea. They are a group of five individual vertabrae fused together to form one columnar bone structure. The human spine was designed to protect the spinal cord. As a result it is extremely resistant to breakage due to its curvature. The spinal vertabrae tend to flex rather than break. This causes the spinal cord to flex and sometimes bruise. To give you an example of this, stack about 33 cassette boxes flat on top of each other (with the cassettes inside them) - one for each of the vertebra in the spinal vertebrae . Try, with any implement you wish, break one or more of the boxes by hitting them on the side. You will find that despite the effort, the maximum that you can break is one, and this will be achieved with a very precise blow to the center of the cassette box. The reason is that the rest of the cassette boxes will slide and dissipate the force equally. The spine works in a similar way, but also has the advantage of shock absorbers (cartilage) in between each vertebrae. These are usually referred to as discs. Vertebral fracture either individual or multiple is normally caused by either gun-shot entry wound OR point impact - direct to the specific vertebra OR vertical stress - ie landing on ones head OR horizontal stress at head (head being forced to separate from spinal connections) This type of gun-shot wound is usually fatal as it severs the spinal cord as well as shredding other organs on exit. Exit gunshot wounds do not fracture spinal vertebra as usually the vertebra deflect the bullet. Point impact (sharp object directly hitting one vertebra ) can crush (most are recoverable) OR sever (10% recoverable) the spinal cord. Vertical stress cause one vertebra to collide with a second and keep traveling until the energy is dissipated. This can shatter each vertebra removing protection from the spinal cord. This usually fractures the first and second and sometimes the third vertebra. Horizontal stress does NOT fracture vertebrae. It does, however, tear the spinal cord at the cervical spine (within the first seven vertebrae).

I have read the court transcript, and as stated by Ms Nelson's surgeon, the damage in the anal sphincter will, over time, heal. The major problem with the inflicted injury is the tear in the bowel walls from the vagina. This was surgically repaired, but the complications on this will leave a overactive bowels. Ms Nelson will be permanently bowel incontinent despite the anal sphincter problems. The choice of a sigmoid loop colostomy will ensure that Ms Nelson does not require diapers for her incontinence. In about twelve months, it will be possible to reverse the colostomy operation. Ms Nelson will, at that stage, continue to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome - which will require her to wear diapers to manage this. Currently, since her vagina was assaulted in such a way, it would not be uncommon for her to also suffer from urinary incontinence. I would suspect, which is not mentioned in the transcript, that Ms Nelson is currently managing her urinary functions via intermittent catheter use. To reduce Ms Nelsons care requirement, diapers should be suggested as an option. tonysplace, Ms Nelson will be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She has lost her ability to endure intercourse and bear children due to the damage to her vagina walls. She is also on antibiotics for life due to her own blood being infected by her own fecal matter. I would also suspect that she has kidney and liver damage. Personally, I think that is too high a price to pay to gain incontinence.

Tell or not tell - that really depends on the person involved and the type of relationship you are in / want to be in. With your wife/husband/boy friend/girl friend, I would say yes, tell them. Not doing so is dishonest and misleading. With your friend / family / etc - that you like diapers and want to act infantile - that is totally up to you - but consider - what do you wish to gain - do you really expect that person/people to make a fuss of you and baby you - unfortunately most people will not understand your wishes and due to that, will correlate diaper wearing/infantile behavior to pedophilia. On a one to one basis, you have the opportunity - if you wish to tell them - to prepare them completely. Human nature as it is, 99% of all people will understand your feelings once given the time and correct preparation, but if you shock them, they will run from you.

I wear diapers, and they get wet day or night- whats new, have been doing that since birth. Am I a bedwetter - no... I am a diaper wetter. The problem that both of you are facing is that you are kinking your urethra while you sleep. It may not even feel that tight, but while you are lying down, the pressure of your diaper kinks it. It is the pressure of a full bladder that is waking you both, and as soon as you move/sit up, the pressure changes and you evacuate your bladders. The solution is simple - don't put on the night diaper so tight. For an example, you should be easily able to place your hand in between the diaper and your waist. With both a cloth and a disposable, they will expand when wet, so the chance of a leak is remote. If you want to avoid this completely, wear a pair of loose plastic pants over the diaper.

punk180, your comments proves you are fabricating this. DIRECT COPY FROM http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8786 Definition of Sacral vertebrae Sacral vertebrae: There are 5 sacral vertebral bones. They are represented by the symbols S1 through S5 and are situated between the lumbar vertebrae and the coccyx (the lowest segment of the vertebral column). The sacral vertebrae are normally fused to form the sacrum. Any other medical dictionary will tell you the same. I deliberately lied to prove your inconsistency. Incontinence can not be caused by one of your sacral vertebrae damaging your spinal cord cause by average age of 4/5 years old, the five bones fuse together as ONE. The two reasons that they are separate is so you can fit and twist between your mothers hips. Otherwise, the physics would crush and tear your spine apart. The reason they fuse is protect the primary function of the sacral spinal cord - controlling reproduction. You are at least 10 years of age, so these bones are as one. If you had fractured the bones, in all cases, a splinter or two would rupture and pin the spinal cord. That strain would stop ALL impulses from traveling down the spinal cord. YOU WOULD BE DEAD

You stated that you hit your bladder on the rail which has caused you to become urinary incontinent. You also stated that your doctor has agreed with your diagnosis. What did you actually damage, cause what you are saying seems to me like wishful thinking rather than factual. Medical Info: For an external object like a rail/ steel bar/cross bar etc to cause enough trauma to the bladder it first has to damage the lower abdomen. If all the circumstances were perfect - full bladder and the bar/rail etc hit the correct place, the pressure would cause two things to happen simultaneously - 1- yes you would wet yourself as the internal sphincter OR external sphincter tears open. Also back flow of urine into your kidneys at the same force would cause you to pass out from the kidney pressure. You would have be taken away from the scene in an ambulance. In extreme cases, you would be on kidney dialysis. Going back to the bladder and its two sphincters, only ONE would have torn. This would cause you to have little, but still about 5 minutes warning before you voided. Since your cortical brain is developed, a failing in one of the two sphincters would involve your brain working out a compromise - which it can do in micro-seconds. Yes, medically, you would be incontinent for about 5 microseconds. If, however, the injury caused complete, but repairable incontinence, the force would have to be strong enough to cause one of your sacral vertebrae to collide with the nerve endings. This would have been extreme agony to you which you would NOT be able to walk from for about 7-10 days until the swelling around the nerves subsided. That type of force would be fatal as numerous more delicate organs would have been torn from their position. I will introduce you to your abdominal muscle group which are designed to protect your internal organs. Bladder injuries occur when foreign objects such as steel etc penetrate the abdomen and slice into the abdominal muscles. Injuries that cause bladder incontinence have to affect both the sphincters and/or the detruser muscle and/or the associated control mechanism - ie the three nerve groups that interconnect the three muscles (detruser, internal sphincter and external sphincter). These connect to the spinal cord at three different locations (S2,S3,S4) within the sacral spinal cord. Even a newborn child has functional bladder control, but does not have the developed cortical stimulation to intercept the nerve impulses. As a result, in an infant, this process is involuntary. With maturity the cortical centers of the brain develop. At this stage, functional toilet training can begin to establish control and post infant continence.

tonysplace, many thanks for your kind words. you are correct in that fisting can, in some cases, cause anal incontinence, but that is due to a number of usually undesirable facts. The anal sphincter as I already stated, is not designed to withhold liquid - and as such, is a relative weak muscle. Inserting your hand(s) into this orifice tends to stretch this muscle. That, in itself is not a real problem as it will strengthen this muscle. However, since fisting involves stretching rectum, this can weakens this part of the bowel. Firstly - with this is that this part of the bowels tend to be hypersensitive, which triggers the bowels to contract and expel its contents. Secondly - that this part of the bowel wall being overly thinned by the stretching process, can easily rupture spilling the bowel contents into the cavity of the lower intestine. Thirdly - the introduction of foreign matter into the rectum - bacteria from hands and under fingernails. Fourthly - fingernails can easily tear the rectum. This, if not treated within a matter of hours, can be fatal. The repair to this needs two entry points - 1 via the sphincter and 2 - keyhole via the lower abdomen. This surgical repair can have a temporary side effect of incontinence. Total recovery time from this type of surgery is anytime between two months to two years, and during this time, the bowel movements are kept as liquid as possible to avoid pressure buildup re-tearing the bowel walls. Two years with liquid stool, and another six months with semi-solid stool ensures that whatever control one had before is gone. Some repairs to rectum can severely reduce its capacity OR remove the rectum completely. As such, an artificial rectum is created with a tube to a colostomy bag. To regain control, if it is at all possible, requires three months intensive toilet training, which history has proven, once a person has passed eighteen years of age, they loose the ability to toilet train. I am not saying that toilet training an adult is impossible, but it is extremely difficult. The key incentives - wanting to please / want to mimic parent / inconvenience - is nonresistant. Also, consider the person who has been silly enough to self mutilate, and correlate that with the self-drive (or lack there of) not to soil themselves. Bowel continence is only a socialistic problem if it infringes on another - yet with the current medication and protection products available, the only one the would be aware of a wet or soiled diaper is the wearer, and some incontinent people are unaware of this until the time they change the diaper. Yes, you are correct that fisting can cause bowel incontinence, but it is not in damage to the anal sphincter, but rather in damage to the rectum.

Wake up with a soaked cloth diaper. Sometimes its messy and I am happy - reason - a messy diaper means that I will not have a messy one to deal with during that day. Sometimes it is just damp which means that sometime in the next two hours I will have a very wet and messy diaper to deal with. Then its off to the shower, and then a change into a tena maxi disposable. Since the tapes on these tend to stretch, I use sellotape over the bottom tapes. I also wear a pair of plastic pants over this to try and prevent leaks. After a cup of coffee its a 30min drive to the office. I can usually get away without a change until about 11/12 midday, but it all depends on how my nighttime diaper was. Mostly by 11am I need a change. That diaper will last me till about 2/3pm depending on what I had for lunch. A light lunch means a wet diaper, a normal business lunch means a soaked and messy change at about 3. I try to leave the office before 6pm where if timing works my way I can get back home before needing a change. I have recently been changing at 5.30pm to avoid diaper leaks in my car etc. By 7pm, I am usually back home where it is another shower and diaper change. If I have plans that evening, the change is into another tena. Otherwise, I will change into a cloth diaper. Before bedtime, I change into another cloth diaper. If I happen not to be working in my own office, then I wear the Tena Flex which are easier to change in a public bathroom, but I need to change every 2-3 hours. In a word, contrary to most incontinent people, I am very happy to wake up in a leaking messy diapee. TTL: 2 cloth diapers, 3/4 Tena Disposables OR 2 cloth diapers and 4/5 Tena Flex. My diaper bag consists of 3 Tena Slip, 3 Tena Flex, 4 pair pull on plastic pants, 4 pair snap on plastic pants, Roll of sellotape, small sissors, diaper cream, baby wipes, half pack of diaper bags & can of spray deodorant. The bag is a computer laptop bag. In the trunk of my car is a full bag of Tena slip and Tena Flex under a car rug.

Obtaining complete fecal incontinence is easier than most people assume. The anal sphincter was never designed to hold liquid - only solid. As a result, to become incontinent, change your diet as follows:- 1 - Increase water in your diet - more water makes softer poop. 2 - Take at least 1000mg cod liver oil daily - to lubricate your bowels 3 - Take 500mg activated charcoal daily - to eliminate smell. 4 - Wear diapers/protection 24/7/365 and use as designed whenever and wherever you are. 5 - Change diet to increase fiber - cleans out digestive tract. 6 - Reduce / eliminate red meat - Red meat causes constipation and slows down digestive process 7 - Reduce / eliminate white flour, white/refined sugars - white flour and refined sugars reduce the digestive systems speed and efficiency. If you insist on adding sweeteners, use honey. 8 - Unless you wish to regain bladder continence, avoid also aspartame (artificial sweetener usually found in diet drinks) Warning : DO NOT play with altering/stretching the anal sphincter. All you are doing is exercising this muscle, which will make it stronger and more efficient. The more often you use a diaper for your bowel excretions, the less your body will hold. After about 3 months, your anal sphincter will fully relax and the peristatic action action of your lower colon will cause you to fill your diapers without notification to you. This should give you the normal bowel response of a 1-2 year old - ie fill his/her diaper between 60 and 180 minutes after every meal whether the child is awake or asleep. TO ALL NEGATIVE WISHERS - yes, you are welcome to your opinions, but, the people who wish to be incontinent are chronologically old enough to make their own choices. Help if you can, but please, don't discriminate.

Increasing water consumption is a prerequisite = not having an empty / partially empty bladder. Manual stimulation of the detruser muscle is obtained by drumming your fingers on your bladder. (tapping your forefinger followed by each finger in turn until you reach your little finger and repeating on your stomach just below the waistband of your diaper) This will cause you to urinate if there is enough urine in your bladder and you are relaxed enough. Psychological stimulation involves sound and sight of running water and the inbuilt confidence that the action will not cause you discomfort = prime trigger of your subconscious mind to get toilet trained. This means that you have to believe that the diaper you are wearing is capable for the purpose intended and will not leak and or damage / destroy anything else AND/OR that you don't care if it does AND/OR it is what you are supposed to do = infantile belief. A baby doesn't know or care if his/her diaper is capable AND does not know/care if he/she is wearing protection AND does not know / care / cannot associate yet that to wet and or mess will cause self discomfort if his/her diaper leaks.

Urinary Incontinence: To understand what causes this needs some medical knowledge of the urinary excretory process. The two kidneys constantly filter the blood and deposit urine into the bladder every five to fifteen minutes. The bladder, being similar to a balloon, has a muscle on its neck called the internal sphincter which is open, and closes from the sense of urine in the bladder. As more urine is placed into the bladder, it fills yet hasn't expanded. When the bladder is full and not expanded, it signals the brain to close the external sphincter muscle and open the internal sphincter muscle. The brain interprets this as a need to urinate and has about thirty to sixty minutes to handle this. Meanwhile, more urine is being placed into the bladder and the bladder starts to stretch since the external sphincter is closed allowing pressure to build in the bladder. This sends a signal to the brain as a sense of urgency. If one happens to reach a bathroom in time, you can consciously tell your detruser muscle to contract. This is the muscle that causes the bladder to close and will open the external sphincter muscle allowing urine to exit your body. If you however, happen not to get to a bathroom in time, the detruser muscle will contract automatically and you will wet whatever you are wearing. Incontinence will occur when one or more of the processes listed does not work. Usually, the nerve impulses get disturbed before they go to the brain so the internal or external sphincter muscle does not close. Either failing also stops the bladder from expanding so the corresponding symptoms also occur - small bladder with frequent voiding / small bladder with constant weeping urine. Bowel Incontinence The human bowel is the final part of the lower intestine, and consists of two items - the rectum, and the anal canal. Out of these two, the only one under conscious control is the anal canal or the anal sphincter. Most of the time, this muscle is closed. Its action is similar to that on the length of a straw - each part of the neck does not create a seal, but the combination of the length of this does seal. The rectum is constantly being filled by the peristatic action of the digestive tract. If your diet happens to contain to much water, the weak anal sphincter will cause stool to weep. On the other hand, if your diet contains too little water, the peristatic action will cause your rectum to block and impact. This will cause reverse pressure. The anal canal / sphincter can not withhold liquid. Usually, when the rectum gets engorged, a signal is sent to the brain to void. If this signal is correctly intercepted, the reverse will relax the anal sphincter and the rectum will contract and empty. This is due to a physical drop in the pelvic floor muscles. This then causes the anal canal to mimic the peristatic action of the colon while the rectum walls contract. In an incontinent person, the rectum does not store stools. This can be due to hypersensitivity of the rectum walls OR failure of the anal sphincter to create a seal. Another cause of incontinence - also the same for some infants, is an inability to understand the impulse of an expanding rectum. This causes the rectum to contract in sympathy with the colon, therefore the person concerned will void without any notification. Also since an infants diet is mainly liquid, its stools contain a high amount of liquid and are extremly easy to pass a weak sphincter. peristatic action = muscular action of a tube which causes each segment of the tube to contract in turn thus propelling the contents of the tube. Within the human digestive system from the throat to the anus, movement is created by involuntary peristatic action. The Myths Dispelled 1: Reducing water consumption will reduce your need to urinate. FALSE: Reducing water consumption means that your urine will increase in concentration and toxicity so the bladder will contract when any urine is entered. Resultant is that you will wet more often. It also has the secondary effect of forcing your body to absorb more water from your stools and can cause constipation. 2: Laziness is the cause of secondary nocturnal enuresis / bed wetting FALSE: 1.One cause of bed wetting is usually a change in the position of the external sphincter. This occurs either at the start or end of puberty depending exactly on the person concerned. 2.The human sub-conscious mind which is responsible for continence will not place itself or its body in a situation to make it uncomfortable and sacrifice valuable needed regeneration and resting time. 3. Night Diapers / Harassment / Stress / Corrective Action will help in eliminating secondary nocturnal enuresis / bed wetting. FALSE: The pseudo infantile act that the child/adult is performing by wetting during times of rest - as perceived by the child/adult - is usually distressing to the child/adult. Adding to this stress will only increase the problem. Yes- protection is advisable, but only with the consent of the child/adult. Instilling self-confidence allows the associated stress to disapate and the body to relearn control. 4. Medication such as DDAVP will help in eliminating secondary nocturnal enuresis / bed wetting. FALSE: DDAVP and similar work and interfering with the body's natural production of vasopressin. Vasopressin is the chemical within the body that controls water balance. Any medication that adds more of or suppresses something that is naturally created causes the body to conserve its energy and thus eliminate its own production. As a result, a child prescribed vasopressin will temporarily gain nighttime control, but will become dependent on the drug to revert back to the lack of control he/she had before taking the drug. Side effects of altering the body's water balance is constipation/diarrhea, kidney infections, aggressiveness, low self esteem, low concentration levels. Secondary nocturnal enuresis / bed wetting is NOT caused by a body chemical imbalance and does NOT require medical intervention (in most cases). It IS caused by normal growth OR perceived stress, which will self heal without medical intervention. What I suggest is discrete nighttime protection with the child's consent. 5. Kegel exercises will eliminate / reduce urinary incontinence. FALSE: Kegel only exercises the muscles of the pelvic floor and not the three urinary muscles concerned (detruser and two sphincter muscles). This type of exercise will tone up the anal sphincter if it is not already atrophied and one already has some control of that muscle. However, since the anal sphincter was never designed to hold liquid, a simple change in diet is usually more effective. Some of the side effects of anal sphincter strengthening is a build up of gas pressure within the bowels which causes stool to be excreted with the gas when the pressure reaches high enough to expel. Thus, kegel can create bowel incontinence to bowel continent people. Also, the reverse pressure can cause complications across the digestive tract. Thus, kegel should only be used under strict medical supervision when the complete history is known. 6. Holding urine within your bladder will eliminate / reduce incontinence / eliminate nocturnal enuresis / help train bladder control FALSE: All holding urine at strain in the bladder is doing is putting back pressure on the kidneys and can cause the external sphincter to cramp. Back pressure on the kidneys can damage them, and cause potentially fatal chemicals to enter the bloodstream. A cramped external sphincter will either lock closed or open. If it is locked closed, a catheter will have to be introduced to empty the bladder which has the potential of introducing germs into the urinary tract. If the external sphincter is locked open, urinary incontinence will occur for at least the next 12 hours until the muscle relaxes. WARNING - I strongly suggest that those urinary continent people who wish to try this that they don't as it WILL cause damage to your kidneys = fatal agonizing death. 7. Long term incontinence is curable. FALSE: Failure of somewhere along the excretory process allows the muscles to stay open. Since the body is an expert at energy conservation, if signal interruption or muscle damage the two sphincters will stay open. Since they are no longer moving, they do not utilize the blood supply. This causes deposits along the blood vessels concerned eventually reducing and eliminating blood flow to the two sphincters. The two muscles will die. Also, the subconscious will ignore the nerve signal of urine entering the bladder. The detruser might still function to a certain extent but since the sphincters are both open, one will void urine using gravity. as a result, the detruser will only function as a direct stimulation to fear or contraction of the pelvic floor muscles. 8. Biofeedback devices work FALSE: Biofeedback devices, more correctly known as nerve impulse units have little or no effect on the excretory system except to cause the detruser to contract thus emptying the bladder. Invasive surgical techniques have been found successful by implanting artificial external sphincters. However, with these devices, it is extremely important not to allow the bladder to overfill thus avoiding back pressure on the kidneys. 9. Electro-stimulation (introducing electric pulses to stimulate) of nerves / muscles can cure incontinence. FALSE: Yes, it is possible to partly recover function to certain muscles, the sphincters included, but if the original cause of incontinence is not repaired, it does not matter what muscle you have subconscious control of, without the full nervous system working, you will not gain continence. The best result possible is still needing to wear protection and being aware of your need to void but really unable to do anything to prevent it happening. Also, as explained earlier, in a matter of days/weeks, you will be back to being fully unaware of the act. 10. Internal or External Laser Sphincter Surgery (Sphinceroplasty surgery) can cause / cure incontinence FALSE: This is to cut the sphincter so it can open further. The scar tissue that will form does not alter the functionality of the sphincter. Complications from surgery can cause incontinence if nervous damage occurs, but this is rare. Urinary tract infections are more common with this type of surgery. 11. Diaper usage cause urinary tract infections. FALSE: Urinary tract infections, and or infections within the urinary system are caused by bacterial introduction into the urinary system. Urine itself to the person is sterile, and as a result, it constantly cleans and sterilizes the urinary system. Bacterium are introduced by poor hygiene standards - IE introduction feces into the tract by poor cleaning / wiping the incorrect direction OR introduction of third party implement into the urinary system - usually a catheter etc without observing proper cleaning processes. (See also No5 in relation to back pressure on the kidneys) 12. Diaper usage / incontinence can cause kidney stones. FALSE: Kidney stones are created by a build up of calcium deposits within the kidneys. The main cause of this is a lack of enough water within the diet. Calcium is one of the elements in urine, and is normally in weak enough concentrations to be totally dissolved in the urine. However, low water content urine means high concentration of elements which can crystallize and form stones within the kidney/bladder. Since the kidney/bladder is only designed to handle liquids, solid or semi-solid substance is similar to sand to the urinary system. This will cause damage to all organs concerned and also pain. Since the kidneys function are central to the functionality of the body, damage to those organs can be fatal. 13. Newborn babies ARE incontinent. FALSE: The average newborn child has a fully functioning excretory system. What they do not have is the mental ability to understand what or how to react to their bladder or bowel needs. As a result, they fuss just before voiding. Most babies are placed in diapers and encouraged either by praise after the event OR ignorance before the event to void in diapers. Correspondingly, a newborn associates, due to no other knowledge, that they are supposed to use diapers for their eliminations. This is one of the earliest things that they learn, and why, in most cases, reversing this training is so difficult. 14. Bowel continence is achievable FALSE : This will surprise most. The anal sphincter can't hold back liquid, so if you are on a liquid only diet, you will be bowel incontinent. As a result, those people, who pride themselves as being 'not an infant since they do not mess their diapers' is only due to diet, nothing else. 15. Gall Bladder Removal (cholecystectomy) causes bowel incontinence FALSE: There is no direct correlation to a cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal surgery) and fecal incontinence UNLESS there were associated complications. Most cholecystectomy surgeries are currently preformed laparoscopicly (via keyhole surgery) and as such, complications are rare. Normal temporary side effects of laparoscopic surgery can include indigestion etc or in extreme cases, an over active or over sensitive bladder or bowels. This oversensitivity is caused by residual saline solution within the bladder / bowels rather than bowel / bladder damage. However, there is about 1% of operations that cause other problems which may involve the surgeon to access the gall bladder via an alternative route. Some incontinence may be caused by such, but this is normally a temporary effect which clears up over a few weeks. What you may be referring to as fecal incontinence could be diarrhea, which about 15% of patients suffer from until their digestive system adjusts to a new diet. 16. Surgical Intervention can cause incontinence - bowel and/or bladder TRUE and FALSE: For surgery to effect continence, the surgeon needs to cut the spinal cord above the sacral vertebrae. This has also the side effect of eliminating any sexual control. However, surgery can sever the nerve group that controls the detruser. As a result, this part of your eliminations would revert to automated behavior - ie you would wet when your bladder started to fill. As you would be diaper dependent 24/7, your anal sphincter would follow suit. However, trying to find a surgeon willing to do this would be near on impossible. 17. Tasers / Electronic Devices / Acupuncture can effect continence TRUE: It is possible to use an electronic device (hair removal device / muscle stimulation device etc) to overload the impulses that your bladder nerves are constantly sending to your brain. However, since this will affect all nerve impulse from your bladder and surrounding tissue, you also may loose sexual function and/or feeling. Summary: For correct safe operation of the human body and the urinary system, do not reduce your water intake. The industry norm is a minimum of eight glasses a day or 2.9 liters a day, but I suggest that you use the calculator or similar on the link below to calculate your own body needs. http://www.csgnetwork.com/humanh2owater.html http://www.bloodindex.org/Human_Water_Requ..._Calculator.php Side note Please don't be discouraged by the information here. Cases described above are the extreme. I put this together to try and answer the questions that keep being asked on this board. For your own safety and peace of mind, anything discussed here or any other questions should be addressed to a competent medical practitioner who is familiar with your history. Anything else is not being true or fair to yourself.

1 - Medical Info: Every cell in the body duplicates itself - that is except the human nervous system and the brain. As the body grows, the nervous system stretches. 2- If, as you say, this person got a nerve graft from his own mother, the DNA match would be so accurate that the son would NOT need any anti-rejection drugs. Better choice would be to move nerves from one location of the son to the damaged area. 3-Where was the graft taken from the mother - the same location as the sons damage? That would be the only way the son could try and use his mothers nerves - and then the mother would have the same or greater problem as the son had. 4- Yes, nerve grafting technology exists, but it is moving nerves from the host to the host - ie in the above case, would entail moving nerves from one part of the sons body to another, but this is extremely risky. Conclusion: Nerve fibers are thinner than a human hair and have to be precisely grafted to the existing nerve. Even with this, the results to date are unpredictable. Joining a cut structure to a cut structure will result in scar tissue forming. This scar tissue has NO nerve content and will block all nerve impulses across the junction. As a result, nerve grafting, although it exists as a medical practice, it is very rarely performed and may only give feeling / partial feeling for an unpredictable amount of time. Eventually - normally within twelve months, the nerve block has returned but it is complete block rather than the original partial block. Partial blocks occur when nerves are severed due to the ability of nerve impulses to 'jump the gap' with the result of a much smaller impulse. Exercise of the affected area normally can allow the body to focus on the weakened nervous impulses and allow partial or greater control to be regained. Thus, the medical preference is exercise rather than invasive risky and eventually destructive surgery. In Wayneo's case, the nerve damage is within his spinal cord, and the risk of damage and complete paralysis far outweighs any possible benefit of urinary control. You may state the I am being cruel, but I, being incontinent due to spinal injury, are fully aware of the costs involved if this was tried to be fixed. I prefer to lead an active fully mobile life rather than have full continence and be stuck in a wheelchair for life - what do YOU think? Do you think that it would matter that he was fully aware of his need and act of wetting/soiling his diapers yet stuck in a wheelchair unable to get to a bathroom in time? Wayneo, please accept that you need protection. You have been doing that for the past 20 years. If you wish NOT to wear, then ask about leg bags etc. Inability to control your bladder is NOT a problem unless you make it so.

Bowel incontinence daytime does continue overnight. It however, can be controlled to a certain extent by diet and timing, or decent diapers. Those of whom are bowel incontinent should be able to calculate within 1-2 hours, when they will mess - this is all dependent on their diet, and its water content. As a result, the average time from eating and soiling runs about 5.5 hours, so if you wish to avoid messing overnight, don't eat a large/substantial meal within that time frame. However, if you do due to your schedule, then wear cloth overnight. They are much better at containing mess than disposables, and due to the associated wetting, and the wet cloth, the 'hard stools' that others have mentioned that tend to be difficult to clean up shouldn't be a problem, and even if they are, a warm shower in the morning eliminates that. On a personal nature, since I am totally incontinent, I wear cloth overnight and 6/7 mornings wake up with wet and messy diapers - have done for the past 30+ years, and never found a problem or discomfort. The only leakage that I suffer is a little wetness if I fail to correctly check the elastic on the plastic pants - but I always wear a plastic pants that is 2-3 sizes larger. This allows the pants to create a proper seal on cloth. The only time I wear disposables is when I do not have a choice - ie in work or while not at home. Adult disposable diapers were designed for the immobile adult that is under constant nurse care, and to be changed within a short time after being wet/soiled. As a result and opposite to baby diapers, they can not contain wet/mess over a large time frame on a mobile/semi-mobile adult. Mathematically, a baby pampers size 4/5 is actually more absorbant than most if not all adult medium/large diapers. If you don't believe me, mix up a salt/warm water solution, pour equal amounts on until saturation and measure the absorbancy of your adult diaper compared to a pampers. I only wish that adult diaper manufactures would even make a diaper with either the same or a pro-rata capacity.

All above have tried to classify the word, and the group 'infantilism'. The multiple and varied definitions in the dictionary excerpts tend to concur with the worlds views. My opinion - why bother. To try and define or class a person based on percieved behavior is called stereotyping, which is inherently incorrect. Each human on this world is a unique individual - and be they like X or not, there is no valid reason to typecast them into some percieved notion of what a typical X wold be since there is NOT a typical X. This concept of stereotyping one or more people based on their choices shows a lack of knowlege, interest in the person and in my opinion, ignorance. Some people choose to wear diapers, choose to drink from a sippy cup, choose to drink from a bottle, choose to wear footed sleepers, choose to wear onesies, choose to sleep in a crib, choose to eat while sitting in a high chair wearing a bib and spoon feeding semi-pureed food. Life is a set of choices. Does their choice whomever they may be invite one to stereotype them, call them some name? Calling someone names is verbal assault, and if that person is chronologically or mentally under the age of 16, it is also classed as child abuse legally - but that is political correctness been taken to its extreme. However, it still doesn't negate the point that typecasting / stereotyping / pigeon-holeing someone is insulting, and incorrect. I thought that within a tolerant an accepting group, that intolerance would not be practiced! Note, I never mentioned the chronological age of the people ('Some people...'), as a 2 year old actually prefers all what I listed, as do a lot of chronological aged 18+ people.

Since I am incontinent, I do not have a choice and I have to wear at work. I don't draw attention to that fact, and the people that are aware about it are people I trust. If you are worried about wearing at work and at what others will say, I can conclusively state that in reality, nobody will notice. They are too busy and self obsessed trying to get their job done to worry or even care what another work colleague has as their underwear. Also, a wet or soiled diaper within an office environment once you are properly hydrated and taking something like activated charcoal or similar, shouldn't smell. The breath and clothes of a smoker smells stronger than a wet and soiled diaper once the adult is well hydrated. Stale urine smells - fresh urine doesn't, and, fresh urine is a natural and extremely potent stimulant to the opposite sex.

I suspect that your urologist is correct. Since it is the external sphincter that allows urinary continence, it really doesn't matter if your internal sphincter opening and its associated nerves is telling you that you need to urinate, without external sphincter control, you will wet uncontrollably. Be grateful, there are people that have their external sphincter locked closed, and when they feel the excruciating pain of a full or expanding bladder, they have to use a catheter to force the external sphincter open. Diaper usage, and that cleanup is a lot more healthy and less risk to the body. You mentioned in a previous post that you had spinal injury - can you tell me where it is - cause from what you are describing, I suspect that it is between T11 and S1 (base of the Thoracic nerves and top of the Sacral nerves) Any nerve damage on or above the Sacral nerves (S1) will most likely result in complete incontinence as well as a lack of sexual functionality. Above the lumbar region (L1) also affects leg movement. Above thoracic nerves (T1) would also mean an inability/difficulty to breath / control heart rate. Christopher Reeves (Superman) had a C1/C2 injury which means that he had above neck muscle functionality only. Since nerve impulse use minute pulses of electricity to communicate, it is possible that certain nerve impulses can jump damaged gaps over time which can seem like nerve regeneration, but the true fact is that nerves do not succumb to nor behave like any other cell within the human body - they do NOT regenerate.

Underwear, or in my case, swim boxer shorts or standard boxer shorts tend to hide and keep quiet the crinkle of the diaper - so to answer your question, yes.