Nocturia

[kurido9]

Hi everyone. I have been interested in getting incontinence for a long time, partially because of my nocturia.
I have to wake up 1-2 times a night to go to the toilet almost always
I am interested in the following, maybe you can help me:
1) How much easier/more difficult will this make getting full nighttime incontinence?
2) How much sense does it make to go to the doctor and try to undergo treatment in parallel to solve this problem, if I am probably aiming for nighttime incontinence?
I would be interested to hear your thoughts

[Wet Knight]

Just protect your mattress, wear a nappy and wet it when your bladder wakes you.

[Spargano]

24 minutes ago, Wet Knight said:

Just protect your mattress, wear a nappy and wet it when your bladder wakes you.

This is the tried and true method. Eventually you will stop waking up 

[CodHero24]

1 hour ago, Wet Knight said:

Just protect your mattress, wear a nappy and wet it when your bladder wakes you.

Double Mattress protection is the method I use. 

A crinkly leak proof Mattress protector, and also a washable reusable "underpad".

The underpad is something you sleep on top of.  It catches your diaper leaks when they happen.

Then, you only need to wash the underpad instead of your entire bedding.

1 hour ago, Spargano said:

This is the tried and true method. Eventually you will stop waking up 

Wearing and wetting every single night certainly helps, don't get me wrong.

But also wearing 24/7 during the day too?

That's the ultimate combination to fast track bedwetting.

[oznl]

3 hours ago, kurido9 said:

Hi everyone. I have been interested in getting incontinence for a long time, partially because of my nocturia.
I have to wake up 1-2 times a night to go to the toilet almost always

I came at this from the other direction.  I developed nocturia within several months of going to 24/7 diapers.  I went from needing to pee maybe once per night up to three times or more.  Because I was in nappies, this wasn't really an inconvenience, just something I noticed happening.

3 hours ago, kurido9 said:

1) How much easier/more difficult will this make getting full nighttime incontinence?

Assuming your plan is to diaper yourself and then simply NOT get up to pee then my experience is that yes, you may well eventually start bed wetting (some people don't so it's not universally true).  I don't think it is truly incontinence though.  I suspect that I wet the bed (ie: wet my nappies) in my sleep because I've re-patterned my sub-conscious that it is "ok" to do this.  Sometimes now I pee without waking up.

I wrote an FAQ about my experience at:

3 hours ago, kurido9 said:

2) How much sense does it make to go to the doctor and try to undergo treatment in parallel to solve this problem, if I am probably aiming for nighttime incontinence?
I would be interested to hear your thoughts

A doctor is going to try to fix the nocturia which to be fair, is what a doctor would be expected to do.  If you want your nocturia fixed, forget diapers (they just reinforce the wrong behaviours) and use a doctor.  I wouldn't conflate the two and I wouldn't like to waste a practitioner's time.

These days I suspect I have severe nocturia but it is completely masked by my diapers and so poses no inconvenience for me.  I either stir briefly, wet and fall back asleep or simply sleep through wetting events (usually evidenced by unexpectedly-wet diapers, strange "pee dreams" or even waking to find myself peeing).

In my case I've no doubt that 24/7 diapering potentiated this process as the holding capacity of my bladder dropped markedly.

The usual disclaimer:  there's no doubt that bed wetting can make things less convenient at times and once bed wetting starts, it is no respecter of place or time.  It will happen when and where you may not want it to happen.  You might want to pause and evaluate where you are in life, deciding whether this is something you truly want now or perhaps something you might come back to later in life after you've done the kind of stuff that's a lot easier to do if you're NOT dependent on night nappies.