Reply from Lenny, Age 55 - 2/19/03 - IP#: 12.77.95.xxx   adultbb-c1046

Hi Mort, I have seen others post elsewhere with several suggestions. From them, I devised my own plan, which is to use a good quality diaper and plastic pants, and give them the support they need. Thus, I currently wear Molicare Super, thick style diapers, with boxer briefs over them, and the legs folded back on themselves in thirds. This puts the cotton where it's most needed in case the leg openings leak a bit, as every disposable usually does. I wear Suprima plastic pants, in their Yellow-X (oil resistant) color. This forms a barrier that contains the urine and its odors. The Molicare is capable of holding about a half-gallon of water under laboratory conditions. Most of the time, I change when it's between 2 and 3 pints. At a pint a pound, the world around, the diaper can tend to become heavy. So I wear bicycle pants over the plastic pants, and that offers the support that's needed there. The problem with plastic rustling and making noise is that the plastic is able to move against your skin, itself, or other clothes. When you prevent the movement, you also stop the noise. The bicycle shorts (athletic pants) do that quite effectively. I also tuck my tee-shirt inside the bicycle pants for both reasons. The noise can never be completely eliminated. But, I have no fear of walking with anyone in a quiet room. I learned a long time ago that the fear of discovery is all in my head. By developing a "so what, they beat being wet" attitude to wearing diapers, that fear went away. Mort, I have enough other problems that I can't let my glasses or my diapers control my life. I don't try to hide the fact that I wear diapers, and nobody else has ever questioned me about them, not even before I learned the hard way that I needed to wear plastic pants, too.