~ashley~

I sometimes wear Goodnites, but I know they aren't technically baby diapers.

I'm gah!ghost's girlfriend, and I just wanted to add that I'm highly disappointed in Tena and every other manufacturer that thinks it's a good idea to take good products that incontinent people RELY on every day and turn them into heaping piles of garbage that provides no solution for managing incontinence.

An incompetent surgeon made me incontinent.

If you don't like the taste, you can mix pure cranberry juice with ginger ale at a 50/50 ratio... its really good that way.

These actually hold more than you'd think they would.

I pretty much only use deli-style sliced cheddar when I need cheese for any kind of sandwich item, like burgers or a steak sandwich... that way I know that it's actually real cheese.

Not sure if anyone is aware, but the chat room seems to be inaccessible now.

A few years ago I had surgery on my bladder and kidney that went wrong, which resulted in nerve damage rendering me incontinent. Since then it's been an up and down thing for me. On one hand, it can be quite annoying and make me really irritable. While on the other hand, it doesn't bother me too much because my mind is able to ignore it. My main issue with it is that I often receive a lot of discomfort and what I can only describe as bladder spasms. Imagine when a muscle in your leg spasms but that instead of your leg it's your bladder doing it—and the you have no control over stopping it. It's so bad that on occasions it actually keeps me from sleeping. So to answer the original question, no it is not something that I enjoy. There's really nothing positive about it. However despite sounding super pessimistic, I try not to think of it in a negative light because it only causes pointless misery. I only wanted to address some of the realities about at least my experience with incontinence. Day to day I try to treat it like a simple fact of my life. It is what it is, and instead of thinking about it as something that's wrong with me I like to think of it as something that makes me unique.