Reply from Tom, Age 62 - 6/20/04 - IP#: 68.11.230.xxx   adultbb-c1991

I can’t exactly offer much support from your point of view, but I can relate to what your husband is going through. I am also a bedwetter and at age 62 I don’t hold our much hope of it ever stopping. My wife doesn’t like it much either, but she accepts it as the way things are. She says that she still doesn’t like getting close to me during the night and encountering a pair of plastic pants. I usually wait until just before I go to sleep to put my diaper on so we can have some time together without it, but if I happen to fall asleep without it, she will wake me up and tell me to put it on. Although she doesn’t like it, she would rather that than a wet bed. I would suggest that your husband discuss his bedwetting with a physician. Bedwetting is often a sleep disorder in which a person simply does not wake up when he needs to pee. It could also be caused by a failure to produce enough antidiuretic hormone which slows kidney output while sleeping. That can be helped by taking a medication called desmopressin or DDAVP. As far as hiding it from your children, they will find out eventually. Kids are naturally curious and sooner or later will find his supply of nappies or maybe come in the bedroom and catch him wearing one. Mine both knew very early that I wear diapers to bed and have no problem with it. They are also very discreet and don’t discuss it with anyone outside the family. Don’t get too discouraged. His problem may never go away, but you’ll just learn to live with it.