wetting of pants and adhd | ADHD Information

I bought my alarm from http://www.bedwettingstore.com/ (and the mattress pad). It's a bit pricey, but my son is a heavy sleeper so I wanted the flashing, vibrating, eight different sounds gizmo. I wanted something really obnoxious. You can select a less expensive model on that site, depending on how many bells and whistles you want. My son is not on meds, so it was definately the alarm that did the trick. NoTellin38985.8804166667

DS wet the bed forever it seemed like.  He would even pee on the floor in his room.  Come to find out that peeing on the floor of his room is part of his bipolar.  Not to say that you son is bipolar.

DS stopped wetting his bed about a year ago.  I don't know why or how.  He just stopped.  A year ago he was wettijng his bed 4-5 times a week.  Then, just out of nowhere he stopped.  He just turned 8. 

I agree with another poster.  I think, after reading other posts, that wetting the bed seems to coincide with ADHD. 

Toni

I also wonder if bedwetting and Add/adhd go hand in hand at times--my daughter is almost 10 and has been a bedwetter for ever, on ddavp for it, and suddenly just stopped about a month ago. That said, we are in the process of changing her ADD meds, and she was off Strattera for just 2 days while we evaluated if we wanted to pull her off 100% and what came back immediately? Bed wetting and even RUNNING to the bathroom during the day..she says the same thing 'can't feel it until I really have to go'...

I got a dri-nite alarm on e-bay for .  It cured my ds in about three weeks.  He had a problem with daytime wetting, too, and I believe it's a combination of things.  His urge to go sensation isn't that strong and then with the ADD and he doesn't pay attention to it.  I stopped punishing him for it a long time ago.  He very rarely has a med holiday.  When he does, he always wets his pants at least once. 

The trolls come on this board and rail at parents who give their kids meds.  Well, I'm here to tell you that when I had to make the choice between giving him meds and him wetting his pants everyday, I'll pick the meds! 

Motheroftwo,

I know someone else on zoloft and I think they told me the wetting was a side effect of the medication. You may want to ask your doc about this.

Clarification:  I wrote this last post after I had been reading the debate board.  In no way am I calling any of the regular posters trolls! 

A few weeks ago I posted on the debate board and had one newbie pm me and tell me that if I just stopped medicating my son and "cleared his system of toxins" or some such nonsense, that he'd be fine!  I told her about our struggle with wet pants and I also told her to stick it where the sun never shines.  I told her that until she had the heartbreak of buying Goodnights so her ds can wear them to school so it won't show if he wets his pants at school, she'd better not carp at me about my ds's treatment regimen!  I was only re-iterating that sentiment.  I know how heartbreaking it is to deal with this problem.   My only guideline would be: whatever works, use it!  My daughter age 6 does this. She attempts to hold in her urine as long as possible because going to the toilet takes precious time out whatever activity she is hyperfocusing on. I know she knows she has to go because she will sit down on her heel to try to hold it in. I offer her incentives to keep her pant dry and it works sporatically. I am just hoping one day she will get a clue that wet pants drives friends away.I used an alarm also. It flashed, vibrated, and made 8 varying alarm sounds. The sensor clips onto the underwear. I purchased a mattress cover that holdsa pint of fluid. It worked in 3 months. He had two relapses, and I think he's done with the bedwetting now. I asked why he stopped. He said that hated the sound of the alarm. Also, once in awhile he gets a wet spot on the underwear during the day. If I ignore it, it just gets bigger and bigger, and soon he starts soaking his pants. Now I put the alarm on during the day right away if he starts doing it. Then he stops,so he is perfectly capable of controlling this, awake or asleep. He said the same thing that your son says -- he doesn't notice or cannot feel it. Well, my son can if he wants to.my son does the same thing.  Yes it can be related to the adhd but it can also be related to the child having anxiety.  There is a medicine out there called ddvap that will help with the bedwetting and the urinating in the pants.  It as help my son tremendously with the bedwetting.   Where do I get the underwear alarm for wetting?My 7 year is currently on zoloft and tenex.  He has been a cronic bedwetter but recently he wets his pants on a daily basis.  We ask him about it and he says he cant feel it until he starts to go.  We have set an appointment at a ped. urologist, but its not until early NOV.  Does anymore have any information or advice on this condition?  We are running short on patients and ideas.  We also would like to eventually get him off of the meds.  All our pediatrician wants to do is give more or different med for the adhd.  She says that the bed wetting and other problems are related to the adhd condition.  I have a hard time believing that we are stuck with medicating the effect.  I hope that there is someone out here that has a better solution to treating the cause and not the effect.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.Hi.  We also had this problem until earlier this year.  DD wet the bed about 5x a week.  I bought an underwear alarm--when it gets wet, a tone sounds and wakes her up.  It took a couple of weeks, and then we had no more nighttime accidents.  I don't know why it worked, but it did.  It was almost like a miracle! HTH