How to go24/7 on the cheap???

[undertheradar]

I'm going to try asking this question a little differently. 

 

so I've had issues with bedwetting off and on for as many years as I can remember.. I've also had occasional daytime issues.. after this most recent kidney stone issue I've been having accidents during the day pretty regularly. only number one, no number twos ... never had any problems with that 

 

I'm hoping that somebody can make some suggestions as far as how to make wearing diapers 24/7 more practical, more manageable, and hopefully more affordable 

 

now at night I prefer to stay with better dry.. but I am open to changing to a different brand if they will help me out.. typically I go through a diaper at least once a night, but sometimes it will go further like two or three days.. I don't mind re-wearing them as long as they're not wet.. but 24 hours of Total wear time is the most I'm willing to do so maximum of three nights but I can't count on that 

 

as far as daytime goes for the last week I've had to change a diaper 2 to 4 times a day not counting night time.. I've been wearing cheap medical diapers.. and they work, but they're not great... and I'd really like to not have to change so often 

 

I was hoping somebody could make some 24/7, somewhat discreet diaper suggestions.. as well as accessories that would be helpful.. I thought that onesie t-shirts / polos might be a good thing to purchase

 

additionally I'm not a huge fan of pull-ups.. they're great if it's just around the house or something.. but I don't like to keep them in my diaper bag they're hard to change into when you're in a bathroom stall.. you have to take off your shoes you have to take off your pants... take off your pull-up and put a new one on and clean yourself.. it's pretty easy to take off a pull-up if you're not putting another pull-up on.. you just rip the sides and take it out and clean up.. but at that point it's much easier to put a diaper on than a pull up 

 

open for suggestions..

[FretaBWet]

If there were a cheap reliable way to do 24/7 it would be the most visited thread on this site. Everything is a trade off. You're using cheap medical diapers but you'll go through them faster. I wear cloth diapers at night with good quality plastic pants. That is the best reliability at night for the least cost over the long run. My wife and I both wear Betterdrys during the day, she wears them at night too because her situation is different than mine. You could maybe save some money buying Tranquility ATN's but you'll be giving up some reliability if you try to make them last like a Betterdry. For us, no leaks is a higher priority than how much it cost per diaper. Cost is our second priority because we are both 24/7.

Hugs,

Freta

[Babymaidmissy]

Set yourself up with a local diaper bank that caters to incontinence patients,it will save you a ton of money 

 

[willnotwill]

2 hours ago, Babymaidmissy said:

Set yourself up with a local diaper bank that caters to incontinence patients,it will save you a ton of money 

 

Unless you are truly incontinent, I'd not be availing myself of such.

Better to patrol the thift stores, facebook, nextdoor and the like.   I often find people dumping diapers for free or very cheaply.

Back 15 years ago when I got laid off, I was fortunate to have a lot of cloth (even a few donations from Mikey) and I was able to just do laundry every other day (had little else to do other than looking for a new job).

[rusty pins]

1 hour ago, willnotwill said:

Unless you are truly incontinent, I'd not be availing myself of such.

Along these lines, I would not try and cheat at all.  Other past threads on this site question how to get insurance to pay for your diapers (not incontinent), basically how can I get free diapers or such. Getting insurance to pay for your diapers when you have no medical need, for example, is fraud.  Claiming to be incontinent to get free diapers from any charity group is depriving those who really need diapers.  In fairness, you don't mention wanting to do either, I'm just addressing Babymaidmissy and willnotwill's comments.  Since you do seem to have bedwetting issues and some increasing day issues, maybe discuss them with your doctor or urologist, discuss the need for protection and the costs and see if any prescription for them might be covered by your insurance.  Otherwise, Goodwill, thrift stores often sell adult diapers pretty cheap, but they are low end like prevail and store brands.  Not good premium diapers.  They might work in day if you use the toilet when you can but have an occasional accident.  You'd pretty much have to change after one good wetting, but they may work for those occasional accidents.  The thing is, thrift stores and Goodwill are hit and miss if they have them, so you can't plan or rely on them.  Personally, if it was me and I could, I'd work on improving my continence if possible as opposed to working on going 24/7 unless I had no other choice at all.

[Little Sherri]

Counterintuitively, @undertheradar, cheap diapers are typically, actually the most expensive. The low-end "burner" medical diapers in my collection, that I wear to the gym or for short missions, would ruin me if they were all I had, because although they might cost $2.00 (CAD) a diaper, I'd be using 6 of them a day. Plus, leaks are not discreet, and doing laundry comes at a cost, as well. And what cost, skin health? What cost, your confidence and your precious time?

On the other hand, if you want to live your life in top-end ABDL diapers, that can get expensive, too, depending on where you live and what you have available to you. Some of the top-tier US brands like MegaMax, or coveted printed diapers like ABU's Little Kings etc, can cost $6 each, at least up here. 

However, it also depends what you intend to do in your diapers; I am 24/7, but I only use them for wetting, most of the time, and that really helps me to keep my costs down, because once a #2 incident has happened, the earth is scorched, and that diaper has to go its eternal slumber, regardless of how much absorbency it might have left in it. So, if I were using my diapers for everything, all the time, I'd probably have different advice for you. But I don't, so here are my thoughts:

Target a high-quality, middle-cost, middle-weight product such as the InControl BeDry, or the BetterDry that @FretaBWet spoke about. You can wear them under clothing, go anywhere in them, and they will last for most people's public-facing day. In your off hours, move up to something like a Mega Inspire+, or BeDry Night, or the printed equivalents, if you prefer. This type of diaper diet allows me to typically only wear two diapers in 24 hours, sometimes averaging less than two, when an Inspire lasts me 18+ hours, and the next one I put on lasts me well into the next day. 

I have tried to mix more cloth diapers in, but to be honest, I don't use them enough - my busy schedule keeps me from babysitting laundry, and I don't like my wife having to deal with cloth diapers and plastic pants. But there are people here who wear them at night, or for a couple or a few days a week, when they know they are going to be around the house long enough to make it worthwhile, and while that increases the workload, it also drops the costs quite a bit - if your budget per diaper is $3.50 as an average, which is not a bad target, you can get decent diapers in that range - then wearing cloth diapers for two or three 24-hour periods, when you can, could easily save you 30% or more per year. 

[oznl]

Loads of good advice in the responses you've been given here @undertheradar  In particular I'd echo @Little Sherri and @FretaBWet.  Cheap diapers are NOT your friend (false economy) and to balance re-usability with only intermittent bedwetting, consider cloth.  Cloth pull-ups (avoid the "all in one" products, use separate plastic pants) actually work pretty well for bedwetting and are 100% reusable.  Also, a well-fitted cloth diaper is the gold standard for coping with bed wetting without leakage.

[Goerge]

I think if you're going to be living your life as a double incontinent person you should defiantly go the medical IC nappy route. Premium nappies are overkill. I've been 24/7 for both pee and poop for over 5 months and I'm pooping as soon as the urge hits so when I have lose poop I'm changing 2/3/4 time to remain fresh. I only wear a BetterDry 10 every night. In the day I wear a Tena Slip maxi, active fit. These are made in Europe but really cheap in the UK at like £0.70p a nappy and they are really good dealing with double incontinence.

[Dubious]

Well, if he's a bedwetter and have problems during the day then he has a medical issue and could try to get diapers for free. 

I would if I had a medical issue. 
I don't use that many medical diapers in a month, but I use my fair share of inserts. 

[ValentinesStuff]

These are mostly plastic backed, but you can see that cheap diapers are in general less absorbent than more expensive diapers.

 

 

[skidy]

I wear 24/7 as I have urge incontinence and can't get through the night without peeing at least four times (nocturia). I have been wearing the InControl BeDry Night at night - they're not cheap but they are effective. I often poop in them - sometimes through incontinence and sometimes for pleasure! I've tried the Vivactive Slip Ultimate (in the UK) and they're pretty good and a lot cheaper.

During the day I wear Aldi's Sana pants if I'm staying local and I'm going to be near a loo (restroom). These will take a full pee (bear in mind I'm incontinent so my capacity is less than when I was young and peeing in nappies for a hobby...) in an emergency, which happens fairly often. If I'm likely to be away from the loo for any period I wear Tena Slip Active Utlima.