buckeye87

It could happen! I remember I hadn't used Attends in a while and then when I bought a bag again, they kept giving me a rash. The manufacturers might make some subtle change to their materials and that could be the causative agent. Just try some other brand for a while and see if it still gives you a rash.

There's no way she'll care about your diaper! Almost all the patients in our rehab ward walk/wheel around in insanely crinkly diapers or have a catheter tube sticking out of their shorts. Any medical professional with frequent patient interaction will have seen enough incontinent folks to be completely desensitized.

Badback, I wouldn't worry AT ALL about what the doctors/nurses/PT's are thinking - unless it's their first week on the job they've seen enough patients in diapers that it's not even anything special anymore. In our rehab ward, you can go to the facilities, close your eyes, and hear the crinkling of folks from ten feet or fifteen feet away - everyone's more or less used to it. I've brought up the topic with other students to probe what normies think of it; I said stuff like "it's so weird to walk through that place and you can tell who's in diapers". Most of them respond very maturely, so I would think the full fledged professionals would be even better about it!

I think it's about time I attended one of NH's meetings . . . maybe. Still a bit skittish though. Really I'd just like to maybe meet folks one at a time around Columbus or Dayton; I think that'd be a much less intimidating prospect. The folks in NE Ohio have a lot of get togethers, though they tend to limit how much diapers play into their events. I certainly do appreciate that they're normal folks and that we don't need Pampers to have fun, but sometimes I do wish they'd loosen up a bit.

I'm always game for a few drinks. I've been trying to meet ANYONE from around Columbus, but so far the only folks I've been able to meet up with are from Cleveland and Cincy. Depressing

I've been messing around with trying to make a stent for what seems like ages, but I finally have something that sorta works! Just takes a few catheters of various sizes to make. I originally tried making it short so that it just spanned the bladder neck, but through experience and med school, I found out that there are more muscles further down that keep that idea from working Insertion and removal is, however, the weak point of my stent and at the moment, I just use a catheter to push it into place and a string attached to the distal end to pull it back out. The thing works really well; can't feel it, but you can feel the urine dribbling out of you.

There's not really anything on the medical market that will achieve what us kinky folk want. Doesn't mean it can't be done though! After hearing about the idea of stents a few years back, I bought a bunch of catheters and messed around with making my own. Took a dozen or so caths and some painful experiments, but I finally did end up making stents that work pretty darn well. With one in, I'm totally incontinent, can't really feel the stent in me, but I can feel the urine dripping out uncontrollably, and the only sign of it is a string that pokes out so that I can retrieve it eventually.

Sounds exactly like my fiance! It's been getting better over time though; just recently we reached a semi-explicit agreement in which I can frolic around in diapers once a week. Took seven years . . . but whatever. She hasn't mentioned it lately but I do remember that one of her biggest concerns was that she'd see me differently if I was wearing diapers more frequently. On another note, my fiance and I also use "pants" as our codeword I picked it up from some ABDL friends I met. Was there a memo about it that I missed?

Sometimes I wear if I'm gonna study for a few hours at the library, just to make the drudgery a tiny bit more bearable. I like to load up on liquids though, and sometimes I get a bit overzealous . . . I've only actually leaked once, but it was in the crowded main library in the middle of exam week :X As I tried my best to act casual on the way to the bathroom, I'd never been happier in my life that I've a proclivity for dark pants!

Thanks for the replies, makes a lot more sense now It also looks like it might be a *bit* on the weird side, but whatever, I'll live. I just hope it doesn't have a tendency to fall down.

The only worthwhile diaper I can think of that isn't available in the US is the Tena Slip Maxi. Costs a ton of money to have it shipped overseas, and while I liked it a lot and it looked great, I couldn't really justify the price.

I was browsin' the interwebs when I found a site that sold an adult onesie I kinda liked. I bought the thing, only to find out later on google that evidently the only articles of clothing with a "lap neck" are more or less onesies for babies. So . . . what exactly does lap neck mean, and since I would be wearing it under stuff like button up shirts so that the collar would be visible, would it look weird to people who do know what a lap neck is? Here's the onesie I'm talkin' about. http://www.babykins.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=12000LAP&Category_Code=KCLTH

Wow, that really blows. I can't imagine how he could forget that little tidbit . . . I mean if he can tell you the price of a blood draw, he should know the test price too! It might be because of insurance reasons, but I'm not sure exactly to whom it applies. A pediatrician explained to me how if you go to the doctor for a specific ailment, the insurance company (or medicaid) might only cover that one thing; if the doctor decides you need something else, it won't be covered unless you make a separate appointment. So she described how if a kid comes in for immunizations and it turns out they need some other tests, she'll just bill insurance for whichever is more expensive and give the cheaper procedure as a freebie. But if they're both expensive, she needs to do it another time unless she wants to lose out on several hundred dollars.

Just outta curiosity, when do most kids get fully toilet trained and out of pullups? I havn't taken care of many normal kids (mostly just disabled ones), so normal markers kinda elude me. I'm always making stupid comments to moms like "wow, he's three and he can talk?!" only to be met with incredulous and offended faces. On another note, are bad experiences with doctors really that frequent for you guys? I was kinda surprised that it was unexpected for him to treat the psoriasis and BP as well; it seems like something any doc should do. Then again, I suppose it depends on your insurance.

I remember visiting Kroger's a while back and saw the same thing, only I'm pretty sure the briefs weren't in the diaper aisle either. Considering how much effort it took to steel myself in preparation of buying diapers from a physical location (this was back a few years when I was more paranoid), I was pretty damn miffed that I was out of luck!

Maybe I just havn't fully familiarized myself with my peers yet, but I've the impression that from professional school onward, people are for the most part mature enough to ignore things like diapers. Then again, maybe it's just because everyone's afraid of the penalties they threaten us with for being "unprofessional" . . . *shudder*

Haha, so true! My sister ended up passing out in the middle of the street and was unresponsive (she's a freakin' alcoholic sometimes). Her friends at least had the good sense to get her to a hospital. Dealing with the parents was fine, finding out she had a cath in front of everyone . . . super lame.

One of my friends just had an experience that's been extremely stressful, and which has turned me a bit back from the road to openness. We casually invited a non ABDL person into our group of friends because he was dating a girl in our group, but after things went sour with her, he decided to retaliate by telling her family and people in her workplace. Whatever, her fault for dating a messed up dude . . . then he decided he'd do the same for others in the group. Some of them are professionals who simply can't afford this bizarre imagery associated with their names. Luckily I was spared and I'm not sure how things turned out ultimately, but now I see that it just takes one negative experience to really jank stuff up. Luckily for me, I'm pretty much immune to misfortune My parents are privacy invading ninjas who do their best to find out stuff about me and overreact. It was pretty much inevitable that they would find my stash, but they were more worried that I might have something wrong with my urinary system than anything else! Once they realized my fiance was fine with it, they just stopped caring immediately. More or less the same thing happened with my childhood best friends, college best friend, and grad school best friend. On another note, I seriously need to work on hiding things, my skill in it is arrested at somewhere around a second grade level.

A few months ago I was following a gastroenterologist around and while he was showing me how to use the endoscope, all I could focus on was the giant cupboard of Depends straight across from me, serendipitously left agape by a careless nurse O_O. I had to mentally stab myself every fifteen seconds . . . it was terrible, doc had to have noticed >_< This crap is gonna get me in trouble one day if I'm not more careful!

Oy, I pee 10-15 time a day if it's cold and I'm drinking a normal amount Everyone pees more in the cold to some degree, it's a side effect of your body's effort to stay warm. It sends more blood to your core and as a result more of it gets put out as urine.

Pft, it'll take more than day old pork chops and their associated germs to teach me not to eat found food!

That's true, it did feel pretty big . . . I dunno, I'd always heard that if you went too small, you'd end up leaking a bunch and the thing would shift around too much. That and the first batch of catheters I ever bought was shipped in the wrong size . . . so I got the joy of starting with 18fr. Yay.

Be careful man, don't push it too hard if she doesn't take to it. I suppose if she really cares for you and loves you, she'll do it. Mine did, but that doesn't mean she was happy about it, and she definitely gives me guff about it sometimes.

Haha, found stuff is the best kind of stuff I love finding food I'd cooked earlier and just forgot about . . . But yea, I've done the same thing before, only with a bag of Secure X-plus diapers. Totally awesome.

Man, I'm ALWAYS having diaper dreams and they're always somewhat humiliating. The worst one was where I was at church, but suddenly I realized I was clad in just a crinkly white diaper. I tried to hide under a table that had a pretty full sized table cloth hanging over the edges, but then the Sunday school class found me and wouldn't stop peeking under the table at me. I've had a few dreams where I stumble upon a huge stash of diapers just sitting around and I start grabbing a few and put one on, but then my family or some friends walk up and start asking what the f I'm doing. The latest one I had was while I was very thickly diapered in Abenas . . . I was going to the beach with a bunch of other diaper lovers, we were all just wearing our diapers and frolicking on the beach. Except then I started getting self conscious because the rest of the beach was filled with normies. The dream just kept getting more and more embarassing, we went to a restaurant and stuff in our diapers and I just got redder and redder in the face >_<