Reply from Darren, Age 22 - 12/8/00 - IP#: 195.12.238.87It seems that you may be wetting the bed with all the stress of being suspended from school. I think if you relax a bit and go and speak to the school nurse or doctor and explain to them that you got suspended from school for changing your pants because you wet yourself and that you have started wetting the bed and you think it could be the stress of being suspended for wetting they will understand and probably explain to the headteacher about the problem and you may get an apology to relax you a bit from the teacher and hopefully stop the bedwetting. If you do feel embarresed about telling people about your bedwetting (or day time wetting) tell them that it is enuresis, I've found most people who know what enuresis is know of someone who has that problem and can be quite understanding about the problem. Whenever I wet the bed on camps I always tell the person over the camp that I have enuresis, if they don't know what enuresis is then I just say it doesn't matter. Most people are very nice over bedwetting anyway as they understand that it can be a very embarressing problem, but don't worry though as it's more common than asthma and just think how often you walk around and see someone with an inhaler in their mouth it's just you very rarely find anyone who tells you they wet the bed because it is such an easy problem to hide. Here is an example as to how easy it is to hide bed wetting, I went to a youth hostel at the beginning of this week and the only people who knew I wet myself were the youth hostel staff even though I was sharing a room with two other people (I changed before and got into my sleeping bag before they came in the room and then waited for them to leave for breakfast before getting up). |