Your bedwetting stories: teenagers
Says no to sleepovers
Hi there, I’m one of the small percent of teenagers that still wets the bed. I was out of night nappies by the time I was 3 and then all of a sudden I was wetting the bed again and 7. No one knows why I started to wet the bed it just happened. I don’t do it every night but at least once or twice a week. I’ve started to wake up once it’s already started so that is so much better than before when I used to sleep through the alarm and everything.
I’ve told my best friend about it and she has been great and hasn’t told a soul. We tell each other everything so I knew that I could trust her with my life. That’s what it feels like, my life. If anyone else from school knew I’d get teased so much and my life just wouldn’t be worth it. I’m not so worried about the bedwetting anymore as much as I am about someone else finding out about it. That causes me a lot of stress. My mum and dad took me to a counsellor because I was starting to get so stressed about being found out. I’m not sure it really did any good cos I’m still as stressed as I was before.
I haven’t been to any group sleepovers at all but have always managed to get out of them by having ‘other plans’. My Nan lives about an hour away and I can always use her as an excuse to avoid going somewhere I don’t feel comfortable. I guess I risk saying no too many times and they won’t ask again, but that would be easier than having to say “no thanks, I can’t because I wet the bed”.
I really want to stop but there’s nothing that I do that makes a difference. Every one tells me ‘one day, one day’. It’s easy for them to say but pretty hard when you’re in the middle of it.
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