I'm an otherwise healthy adult male in my 20s (I know I don't have diabetes, prostate problems, etc.) but still occasionally wet my bed at night. When I was a child and teen I went to many docs for this, never really got much help... the most I was ever told was that my bladder was probably small for my age (gee, thanks!) and my body was just slow to develop and I'd "grow out of it", which obviously didn't totally happen... so I'm thinking about going back in to see if there's anything that can be done now that wasn't before, and I'll soon have the health insurance to make this a reasonable thing to do.
My question is, what kind of specialist to see? Is it more likely a bladder problem, or a sleep problem? I think it could still be my bladder because I still have to go most every night and also can't hold a lot during the day... but I also wonder if sleeping too hard could be the problem, since I normally do wake up most nights when I need to go (just not always). Any thoughts?
2007-08-03 05:05:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
It may be better to first see your regular doctor about it, and then go to whoever else he may recommend. Sleep specialists tend to be more concerned with insomnia, sleep apnea, etc., and what urologists usually deal with is older men with prostate problems, weak stream, etc. (they tend to not give good treatment for things they aren't familiar with- they don't usually treat paruresis either). Different things cause this problem for different people; there's no universal cause or solution, so you'll have to work with your doctor to figure out what will help you.
2007-08-03 05:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Lycanthrope777 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!
1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.
2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.
The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.
After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net
Ohhh..and Good Luck!
2014-09-17 04:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
See a urologist. The medication Vesicare is prescribed for this very problem.
2007-08-03 05:12:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have a pill that fixes this problem now.. I'm surprised they haven't given it to you in the past. I used to work at a group home for troubled teens.. lots of them would have bed wetting problems.. and the pill stopped the problem for every one of them.
2007-08-03 05:17:41 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest a urologist, it seems more like a urinary problem to me
2007-08-03 05:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by all i know is what i know 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋