[How Often do You Change Plastic Pants?]

I agree. I rotate several pair and I always wash out with warm water.  I only launder them every couple of weeks.

[friends that wet as kids]

On 9/6/2019 at 6:17 AM, rusty pins said:

If I knew any friends or other kids who wet the bed, I never knew about it.  After all, how many older kids or friends in school ever say, "I wet the bed and I wear diapers every night".  Sure way to go through your school years teased and ostracized by the other kids!

Excellent point ! :)  I never remember any other kids bragging about it either-LOL.  However when only two boys live across the street, both a couple of years older than you, and there are multiple pairs of plastic pants and cloth diapers drying on the clothes line- kind of a give away.

[Do You Remember Plastic Pants When....]

I was born in the late 80's and as I continued to struggle with bedwetting as a teenager, my mother would buy me adult sized plastic pants and other bedwetter garmets from a place called Comco in Minnesota. They had a mail order catalog and then later a website.  The plastic pants came in a variety of color and styles and were very effective in stopping leaks from disposable diapers and as well as being plastic covers for cloth diapering.  There are still some Comco plastic pants in my dresser at my parents.

[Were you ever pre-warned about having to wear diapers by parents or not?]

I was diapered and in plastic pants at night until I was about 6.  Never was "warned" because I always wore them being an every night bedwetter.  From the age of 6 to about 11 I wore goodnites every night-again because I was an every night wetter.  At about the age of 11 I was starting to become to big for even the largest goodnite.  By then I was experiencing some dry nights.  My mom bought me adult pull-ups and properly sized plastic pants and put them in a dresser drawer.  I could choose to wear them or not, but if I did not and experienced a bedwetting, it was my responsibility to do my own clean up, wash etc.  So I didn't wear diapers for a period and woke in soaked in my share of wet beds.  While my bedwetting continued to diminish into my teens, I was till wetting the bed more nights than not. So I started wearing the diapers again full time around the age of 13,  Just seemed like a lot less drama.

[Who can remember peeing the bed at summer camp?]

I have no painful memories of name tags. Quite the contrary.  I had forgotten my mom sewing them (later sticking them when they came with peel and stick high tech glue) on everything when I was a kid, camp or not.  I think she stuck them on my plastic pants for camp so they could be properly sorted in the wash. Thank God the counselors discretely retrieved them from laundry and placed them inside the foot of my bed with a clean pull up nightly.  I was in cloth diapers at night until I was about 6. Later as a teen I had a couple of pair of velcro closing cloth diapers.  But since i left home, only disposables since I don't want to deal with the wash and storage.  I could not imagine cloth diapers at camp.  I think it would be very hard to keep that a secret for long.

28 minutes ago, nonny said:

Yup, at age 7, 8 and 9 I woke up in a cabin full of boys to discover I’d peed like a baby in my sleeping bag overnight.

I remember hiding in bed one of those mornings until everyone went to breakfast and my counsellor came to find me, and then having to admit it. They were very nice and discreet about it, but a sleeping bag and pyjamas hung out on the line to dry all day told the whole camp some unfortunate kid had an accident, and word of mouth meant everyone immediately knew who. The last time I did it was after unlimited cups of hot chocolate at a campfire. So great at night, enjoying cup after cup… not great at all the next morning waking up in the results.

It was a great place, but with rustic, fairly gross outhouses. Lots of kids were scared of the dark, animals, spiders, etc. and a trip to the bathroom at night meant facings all that. I was a counsellor at the same camp later on and part of our orientation was about how common it is for the younger kids to have bathroom accidents, day and night, when they’re away from home.

Exactly - for the under 9 or 10 crowd, bedwetting was not that unusual.  Perhaps not every night,  but over 14 days-many suffered and accident or two.  And I felt sorry for those kids, since for many it really was an accident-due to strange surroundings, scary stories, homesick, etc. and they neither expected it or came prepared for the result.  Thus their beds were stripped etc. and their pee soaked night clothes washed and hungout to dry. All of the beds in our cabin were protected with a plastic/vinyl encasement-so at least the mattresses did not have to go outside..  But I thought it was common enough that I often use the expression "like a 9 year old the first night of sleep away camp" to describe a bedwetting episode.

[What Decade Is It For Your Inner Child?]

The 90's for me.  i can remember waking up and sitting around in my room-still in my wet night diaper- doing AOL instant messaging with all my friends.

[Who can remember peeing the bed at summer camp?]

20 hours ago, huggybutt said:

Summer camp, not the one I got heat stroke AND strep throat at in the same week, the other one.....age 9, I wet the bed in my cabin and the counselor put my mattress outside of the door to air out with a big stain on it for all passerbys to see. That's all I remember about that embarrassing event.

Yes- A badge of honor at summer camp for those poor souls where it really was an unfortunate accident or they were living in denial.

17 hours ago, Angela Bauer said:

 During the day a staff person washed and dried all the diapers worn by the wetters. Each diaper had a name tag. In the late afternoon all who wore diapers sorted through the washed ones.

 

A yes- name tags, I forgot about those. Every piece of clothing at camp had to have a name tag sewed in. Never thought about cloth diapers.  In my day, disposables had been invented.  But cloth diapers with your name sewed in-identifying the user should it get misplaced-there is no coming back from.

[Who can remember peeing the bed at summer camp?]

My parents used to send me to the same summer camp for 3 weeks ever summer from the ages of 8-13. I probably did not stop wetting my bed nightly until about the age of 11 or so and thereafter it was still quite frequent.  So summer camp was always an adventure.  The good thing about  camp is that all of the mattresses in every cabin were protected with light weight zip in covers (since I suspect bedwetting "accidents" at camps are fairly frequent) so you were not automatically outed by the existence of one on your bed.  My parents sent me with an ample supply of pull-up diapers (goodnites until I was about 10 and some small adult diaper pull ups after that) and  a couple of pair of plastic pants.  The counselors were discrete and in the know and in the mornings I would leave my wet pull up and used plastic pants in a zip plastic bag inside my bed at the bottom and at night, clean plastic pants and a pull up would be waiting in a clean plastic bag which I would put on discretely while in bed.  I wet almost nightly during the 6 years at camp and this system worked to perfection.  I was aware of other bedwetters at camp during this time becasue they did not use plastic pants and their beds would be wet from time to time.

[bedwetters do you]

19 hours ago, ppdude said:

Never, ever wet the bed as a kid. Now I do. A rubber sheet is mandatory!

Since you were never chronic as a kid/teen, what made you start bedwetting as an adult?

[How many of your friends know you wear diapers and plastic pants]

I hope very few.  A few X-Girl friends who I hope and think have been discrete and my immediate family and their spouse.

[Northshore Megamax brief]

I  tried a Northshore Megamx brief for the first time last night.  When you wet it it gets very warm.  I think whatever chemical they use for the material that creates the absorption creates a lot of heat.  Does anyone know anything about this?

[friends that wet as kids]

On 8/9/2019 at 2:24 AM, stevewet said:

Dropping off on a plane could be embarrasing so I always wear nappies when flying.

I always wear a pull-up while flying.  Have only used it a few times over the years, but just one airplane pants wetting would be horribly embarrassing.  One has to wonder how many people, women in particular, are flying padded.

[bedwetters do you]

On 8/12/2019 at 1:12 AM, stevewet said:

I never had a rubber sheet but a plastic one and latterly a fitted "Sandra" mattress cover. My Mother kept it on my bed until I left home. Even though I had all but stopped wetting the bed her opinion was "Once a bedwetter. Always a bedwetter"

My mother never said it, but actions speak louder than words.  I am pushing 31 and that rubber sheet is STILL on my bed at my parents house. I have to admit that it is proven useful in a couple of visits home.  Some mothers know best.

[bedwetters do you]

On 8/5/2019 at 11:15 AM, rubbersheetmike said:

I grew up with a rubber sheet on my bed and had it until I was 17. My mom always put an absorbing pad on top of it but under the main bed sheet. That pretty much stopped the sweating. When we visited my grandmothers place in the summer though she just used a full mattrass size rubber sheet under the regular sheet and bedwetting caused serious puddling  I now use fitted plastic sheets but always use an absorbing pad too. 

I always had a rubber sheet on my bed, under the bed sheet, even when I was hardly wetting the bed in high school.  The fact that I never entirely stopped and had more than the occasional accident was reason enough for my mom to leave the sheet where it was.

[Kid-Like Undies]

On 7/19/2019 at 3:19 PM, Autiesaurus said:

I taught myself to sew because I could never find the kinds of plushies I really wanted. It's a lot of fun, and you can get exactly what you're after.

As for underwear, they've always been too grown up for me, no matter what style. I'm a diaper kid through and through.

Try the stuff here.  https://www.baby-pants.com/training_Pants.php

[leaking diapers at night]

On 5/17/2018 at 11:05 AM, rio20090 said:

If I wet while sleeping on my side and I'm wearing a pullup plastic pant, it leaks out the top and leg of the pant. If I'm wearing a velcro pant or just a disposable, it leaks out the side.

If I wet while sleeping on my back, it leaks out the back of the legs.

I assume your pull up plastic pant is covering some sort of absorbant diaper product.  If you are leaking that frequently out of plastic pants, I suspect they may be too tight and not sized properly.  Try a larger size.

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

6 hours ago, jimmyic said:

  it was very common in my family.  I was one of seven kids, and five of us  wet the bed past the age of seven.  

Jimmy:  Do any of your siblings still have bed wetting issues?

2 hours ago, Angela Bauer said:

Growing up my bladder was tiny and over-active. Same was true for my three sisters and the younger of our brothers. Our Mom and her mother had no bladder control. Mom asked us to wear just-in-case diapers on trips and to places where toilets were hard to find. However, I never wet my bed.

Then I reached puberty a couple of weeks after I turned 12 I reverted to bedwetting. The same had happened to my oldest sister five years previously. Like her I started wearing diapers to bed. This was the summer of 1976. I had skipped 4th grade so I was entering 8th grade. After I began bedwetting many of my friends knew about that and still slept over and I went on sleepovers.

I lost my day control at age 21 as I entered law school. I remain urinary incontinent.

Angela:  Was there some event that caused you to lose day control?

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

I understand the Aderall- but what is the rest of it?  Or is that the medical name for what we call Aderall?

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

Yes- I understood that.  I was inquiring WHAT medicine caused it.  Would like to avoid.

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

3 hours ago, scif788 said:

I bed wet until 13.5 quit before high school then at 21 I started having bladder issues and 3weeks ago i was diagnosed with urge urinary incontinence medication induced


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What does incontinence medication induced mean?

[Increase the chances of having involuntarily accidents.]

On 6/25/2019 at 12:31 PM, rubbersheetmike said:

Usually you can wet your bed without too much inconvenience except laundry but wetting your pants is more difficult to manage. 

Excellent point.  Peed pants in public are hard to come back form

 

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

2 hours ago, Author_Alex said:

 

I do know she found my diaper stash, which included diapers she didn’t buy me and some pictures and stories I printed off. She never said anything about it until right before I left for college, when she told me, at the dinner table with my siblings present, to “make sure I get rid of any boy stuff” I didn’t want her to find.

 

As I have said before- Very little goes on in a teenagers bedroom that Mom is not aware of :)  I am sometimes amazed at the discretion they showed regarding "boy stuff".  With the DDAVP my mother tried to ween me off diapers at night.  For about the first year, even though the DDAVP worked for the most part, I would intentionally have a major wetting from time to time-because I did not want to lose the security I felt wearing diapers to bed.  I suspect my mother knew more than she let on, but my top drawer was always well stocked with properly fitting "night wear"

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

13 minutes ago, Author_Alex said:

I did it on purpose beginning at the start of 8th grade (14 years old) to get diapers. It worked. I also got DDAVP, but worth it.

I kept having “relapses” through junior year of high school (17 years old) whenever I would run out of diapers and couldn’t afford them myself.

Did your parents ever figure that out?  Also, I don't think I would have taken the DDAVP if I did not need it.  Used to get headaches and always had a upset stomach in morning.

 

 

[Who was still wetting their bed in junior high?]

I stopped being chronic around the age of 12-13.  Never totally stopped.  Was fairly dry through high school because my parents had me on DDAVP,  but when I started college I stopped using it so much and the bedwetting returned , although not every night.

[Accidents At School]

I wet the bed on the 5th grade overnight trip to Sacramento our school took to see the state capital.  It was humiliating.