stevewet Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 I have been incontinent for over four years now. I just wondered how long others have been dealing with incontinence? Link to comment
dljim95 Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Went 24/7 over 6 years ago, completely Unpotty trained last year for both wetting and messing. Completely diaper depended and loving it. Link to comment
Angela Bauer Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Although I was toilet trained day and night by age 33 months, my bladder was tiny and over-active. Therefore my Mom often nicely asked me to wear 'Just-in-Case' diapers. A few weeks after I reached puberty at age 12 I reverted to bedwetting. That was when I was taught to change my own gauze diapers. Before leaving home at 17 to live in a university dorm I had to learn to put on and sleep in adult disposables. During university I always wore disposables under my regular clothing to parties and for long lectures. At 21 I lost what remained of my day bladder control. 1 Link to comment
MsFluffems Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 I'm not exactly incontinent, but I have a thing called IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) which causes me to have a really urgent need to go to the bathroom when I feel the need to go. I've had quite a bit of accidents because of it. 3 Link to comment
Nia Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 I've been urine and bowel incon since a car accident in 2000 so 16 years. Link to comment
Hookedondiapers Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 My incontinence started in 2009, after a car accident. Link to comment
Kaliborio Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Somewhere between 18 and 24 months. Link to comment
deewet Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 20 hours ago, Angela Bauer said: Although I was toilet trained day and night by age 33 months, my bladder was tiny and over-active. Therefore my Mom often nicely asked me to wear 'Just-in-Case' diapers. A few weeks after I reached puberty at age 12 I reverted to bedwetting. That was when I was taught to change my own gauze diapers. Before leaving home at 17 to live in a university dorm I had to learn to put on and sleep in adult disposables. During university I always wore disposables under my regular clothing to parties and for long lectures. At 21 I lost what remained of my day bladder control. wow, you are a brave girl for dealing with your issues so well! Link to comment
Angela Bauer Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) My Mom grew up knowing that many of her female relatives had bladder problems. She told me that the family hoped my bladder would be healthy, but at the same time I needed to mentally prepare for life challenged by urinary incontinence. Of course when I was still very young I considered the just-in-case diapers as simply alternative underwear. Later I realized Mom wanted me to get way past being embarrassed about wearing diapers. Even before I turned 4 I knew my older sister, who was then 9, also needed just-in-case diapers. When I was 7 she reverted to bedwetting and was taught to pin on her own diapers. By then all 3 of our youngest siblings were born and none of them was toilet trained. Mom would let us start to diaper younger siblings as soon as we were big enough to do so. However, the tradition was that none of us pinned on our own diapers until we needed to do so after reverting to bedwetting. Growing up I had no special interest in diapers. Once our youngest sister was out of her crib, the nursery became the bedroom I shared with her although she was not yet toilet-trained. Although I never needed to wear diapers to school until I was a university student, Edited February 19, 2017 by Angela Bauer Correct a typo Link to comment
TheBabyPants Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I have been incontinent for the last 18 years Link to comment
rh1979 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 11 years for me after a freak surgery mishap. Link to comment
Rachel Emily Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 I had daytime accidents starting in 1991, while nighttime wetting started about five years ago. Link to comment
adhb Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 I became incontinent as the result of an unexpected side effect of surgery when I was 14 years old. I'm 74 now. So I've had incontinence issues for 60 years. Link to comment
skizics Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 I grew up in the 50s and spent most of my childhood following whatever "sure cure" bed wetting solution was the current fad. In between cures it was back to the diaper and rubber pants routine. I remember being told (over and over again) that I would Out Grow my accidents and never once was I told that I was Incontinent. Over the years I figured out ways to Stop peeing and pooping almost before I wet or messed myself so I could get by with some toilet paper or a handkerchief to keep the wet spots from showing. By the time I started Jr. High I had convinced my mother she didn't need to keep diapering me every night but if I got sick or got a case of diarrhea she always kept a box of my old diapers on the shelf. The roller coaster ride settled down when I finally got an Incontinence Diagnosis in my 40s and I went back to diapers full time. Diapers are more convenient than the previous ways I was managing my incontinence and my stress levels dropped so fast that even I noticed it. It makes me wonder why people have such an Aversion to Diapers that even when circumstances make them the obvious solution they'll opt for major surgeries... Link to comment
Greg03 Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 I always had difficulty with potty training as a kid, I was still in full time diapers until I was about 6 and I've always needed a diaper for bed. Over the past 6 months my daytime continence has declined so I'm in diapers all the time however I'm only urinary incontinent. Link to comment
turtlepins Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 I became incontinent when I was twelve, so I've been in gauze pre fold diapers now for fifty-two years! Link to comment
twospirit Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Started to become incontinent back in 2013 due to diabetic, neuropathy, and fibromyalga, fibroneuropathy 1 Link to comment
Craisler Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 1 hour ago, twospirit said: Started to become incontinent back in 2013 due to diabetic, neuropathy, and fibromyalga, fibroneuropathy Link to comment
accidentboydakota88 Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 I've been incontinent since I was 18 Link to comment
diaperedhorseboi Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 I've been incontinenent since 2/29/16. Link to comment
sport Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I have been incontinenent Link to comment
Baby Dee Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Started when I was 25 and I'll be 70 in early January so about 45 years now. Finally diagnosed with MS in 1983. Link to comment
Midwest Babygirl Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Long story short, I've had a weak bladder since i had stents put in for surgery in 2009 and something was damaged inside. Link to comment
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