Kawaharu Posted June 11, 2024 Posted June 11, 2024 Here's an Article from the UK Daily Mail on why Diapers are fast becoming trendy and normal https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13514437/Why-adults-Britain-wearing-nappies-misled-using-seeking-treatment.html 1
ValentinesStuff Posted June 11, 2024 Posted June 11, 2024 Quote The silver-haired actor Harry Van Gorkum — who once starred in Friends as Monica’s British ‘soulmate’ Don — stands in a luxury apartment in his underwear and looks confidently at the camera. ‘Now we’re comfortable, let’s talk urine leakage,’ he says, holding up an incontinence pad for men which he promises ‘slips discreetly into my underwear’. Not so long ago it would have been unthinkable to see this on prime-time TV. OK, I'm a little confused. I saw my first "prime time" TV commercial for incontinence products back in the early 1980s. Anyone else remember June Allyson? Depend has been running ads on TV with semi famous spokespersons since then. Is this really something new in the UK, or is the paper just trying to sell copy? 1
spoonchicken Posted June 11, 2024 Posted June 11, 2024 Show me people in wet pants on network TV on either side of the pond and perhaps I'll be impressed. 1
rubbersheetmike Posted August 30, 2024 Posted August 30, 2024 On 6/11/2024 at 1:59 PM, Kawaharu said: Here's an Article from the UK Daily Mail on why Diapers are fast becoming trendy and normal https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13514437/Why-adults-Britain-wearing-nappies-misled-using-seeking-treatment.html I couldnt read the whole article because the site has a paywall. Anyway my guess is that the article addresses the fact that too many are wearing adult diapers rather than getting treated for urinary problems. There can be valid reasons for this. Where I live its difficult to get refered to a specialist. Also if you have underlying medical problems like I do doctors will just assume that urine issues are a symptom of the underlying medical problems. 2
Little Sherri Posted August 30, 2024 Posted August 30, 2024 I'm not incontinent - mostly - although I wet the bed when I drink heavily, and sometimes, randomly for no reason whatsoever, other than having worn diapers to bed for about 6 years now, which seems to have enabled me to relearn bedwetting - I was a champion bedwetter as a kid. It's intermittent, unpredictable, and sometimes inconvenient, and is not what I set out to become, but here I am. I also wear diapers during the day - been doing that for 5.5 years - and while my cruising range has shrunk a lot, and I get uncomfortable faster, I can still hold it - I'm not going around involuntarily peeing my pants, I still let it happen. I just let it happen about every 20 - 30 minutes, ergo my holding abilities have declined over the half-decade I've been at this. One thing that has changed is, if I let myself get to the point where I can't hold it - somewhere in the 50-120 minute range, depending on how much I've been drinking - once the dam bursts, so to speak, that's it, I can't clench it off - so at some point I become like a grenade with the pin pulled. However, I have one note relevant to this discussion (I digress a lot...): I did some research into OAB, because I wanted to be able to sound like I knew what I was talking about, if I ever had to claim to be experiencing it, in order to explain to a medical professional why I'm wearing a diaper, when they cut me out of my crumpled car, or I wake up after having a coronary at the top of a staircase, or whatever mishap has brought me into the presence of highly paid professionals while in a state of undress. And what I discovered is that the medications typically employed to treat it are only about 30% effective, and they have lots of inconvenient side-effects, like a dry mouth, dry eyes, and some other issues. SO, while people might be resorting to diapers rather than medical intervention, at the same time, I kind of think diapers might be among the reasonable solutions one might consider. Strapping a bag to my thigh, for example, and inserting something into Mr. Happy doesn't sound easier to live with, to me, than wearing absorbent underpants, even if they crinkle a bit. 2
LittleFenny Posted November 7, 2024 Posted November 7, 2024 This article reminded me of a conversation I overheard many years ago when I was in fourth grade. My class had both a teacher and a student teacher and it turned out both of them worked at summer camps for disabled children most summers. One day while we were busy working through an assignment they were off to the side talking about their experiences at camp and talked about how they both were shocked at "how many parents refused to treat their kid's bladder issues" by using diapers instead of switching them to catheters and urine bags. Which even at that age had me thinking, "how is that refusing to treat the issue? That's just choosing a different treatment than the one you prefer." Just to leave me even more boggled the continued the discussion by bringing up all sorts of catheter & bag issues like kids rolling over in their bunk at night managing to pop the bags like urine filled water balloons or not getting the catheter on right resulting in wet pants. Which just made me think they were even more confused about what the proper treatment was. This was years before I heard about the medications that are available and their side effects. It isn't even as if the medications or urine bags are dropped off for free by the continence fairy.
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