NHS/Publicly funded incontinence supplies

[superabsorbantpolymer]

I'm curious if anyone here is a patient at a continence clinic and receives free diapers to manage your incontinence. If one were to choose to become incontinent and avail of these services which they funded with their taxes, is it immoral?

Has anyone here done this? I love the idea of being rationed/prescribed diapers. I would pay for the experience.

[BabyLouise]

I am interested in this. Wonder if a private clinic would give them more easily

[Goerge]

I know my NHS trust issue Tena contours and Tena slip pro skin  (the clothe version) and unless you've got an intellectual disability they won't give them to you straight away, they run loads of tests and urine volume measuring to see what absorbency Tena pads you need. I read if your a man and have and only have urine incontinence they will only issue Contours and if your double incontinent they'll issues the slips but some NHS trusts are better run then others around the country. From my experience knowing people who have disabilities, my NHS has a really good service but it's a 8 month wait to see a specialist. Some Trusts have ID slip as their main pad, I don't think they are as good as Tena'a.

On the question. I don't think its immoral to get supplies once you achieve incontinence. Incontinence is a genuine disability. And they are not free nappies because that is what general taxation is paid for.

[superabsorbantpolymer]

If someone like reddy or Bobby lived in the UK, surely they would be given slips. The standard tests are 24 hour pad test (weight your diapers for 24 hours), maybe bladder capacity, bladder diary. 

They could refer them for physio, but Reddy tried that and is still incontinent. They might have a shot with an artificial sphincter but I don't think that is something they would push. 

Maybe they would give them pad style diapers like tena comfort but they would probably leak. For all intents and purposes they are stuck in diapers or with a catheter. I don't see why they wouldn't be eligible.

I love fantasy stories about people who fake incontinence to get diapers. You would struggle to fool a doctor doing a scan, but a pad test etc once you've reached the continence clinic would be easy to lie. I love the idea of someone being diagnosed young and living their love wearing government issued diapers, liberated from toilets by medical communism.

[Goerge]

I think for me just being medical acknowledged that I was double incontinent would mean a lot to me. I like to look at this like it makes me disabled if I'm incontinent and I  do see myself as a disabled person who needs that little extra of support and makes me feel and look to other people to me being vulnerable.

[Hookedondiapers]

I was referred to the NHS continence service about 10 years ago.  I didn't go through all of the tests, as I didn't want their diapers.  I just wanted it in my NHS records that I am incontinent.

[BabyLouise]

14 hours ago, Hookedondiapers said:

I was referred to the NHS continence service about 10 years ago.  I didn't go through all of the tests, as I didn't want their diapers.  I just wanted it in my NHS records that I am incontinent.

How did you do that? Did yiu talk to your doctor and explain your wetting?

[Wet Knight]

I have only ever been offered pads by NHS, never nappies.

[Hookedondiapers]

22 hours ago, BabyLouise said:

How did you do that? Did yiu talk to your doctor and explain your wetting?

Yes, I was transferring my medical care from my US military doctors to my British GP and we had a discussion about my incontinence.  He referred me to the NHS Continence Service and we went from there.  I already get my diapers reimbursed by the US VA, so there was no reason to pursue the NHS ones.

[Djnappy97]

I get Tena slip super for the day and Tena slip maxi at night for my incontinence form the continence team 

[superabsorbantpolymer]

7 hours ago, Djnappy97 said:

I get Tena slip super for the day and Tena slip maxi at night for my incontinence form the continence team 

Wow, can you tell us more about your experience? What was the evaluation process like? You are quite young, did you have a medical issue that was causing your incontinence? Were you pretending to have accidents?