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It has been a while since I last posted but I have recently been experiencing a new problem and wanted to know if anyone else has this issue.
I'm a 48-year old male and recently I have had 4 instances of bed-wetting. I haven't wet the bed since I was a child so this is really bothering me.
I was diagnosed with Lyme 2 years ago and I am still being treated by my family physician and also by a Lyme litterate specialist in Springfield, Mo. I also see a nuerologist and an endocrinologist.
I do not sleep soundly dispite the amount of pain medication (neurontin, soma, Opana ER, and Oxycodone) and well as taking ambien. I generally wake at least twice during the night.
Does anyone else have this problem? Posts: 6 | From Illinios | Registered: Jul 2007
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dmc
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don't be embarrassed..we all get weird symptoms. I get bladder spasms and have dificulty "holding it". When my adrenline kicks in when I "have to hurry" my legs completely stiffen.
I've had the o'darn it...can't hold it moments.
For years I was getting up every 1/2 to 1 hr. at night to urninate. Only urninated for a count of 3 to 5 each time. (an 8 count is a full bladder).
The past week, I can hold my urine for 6 hours and urninate for a 10 count....big improvement. The most I've slept in years.
Neurotin is a anti-siezure med that is used of-lable for pain...(I take it too, only 100mg at night) Maybe cause it works on brain waves maybe that is why your "nevrvous system"/brain isn't recognizing the signal and not waking you up. - just a thought.
Hope someone else chimes in. hope you find answers
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My father was on a lot of pain meds. at one point and this caused him to have incontinence, it relaxed the bladder muscles or something, I don't know. Perhaps its a med. side effect?
Take care and I hope you feel better.
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Med side effect seems like a good option to consider/pursue.
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Hi, I got really sick when I was 17, a few months into this I started wetting the bed. I am a female, was a senior in high school and this went on for probably the duration of my 'coma' year when I was so very ill.
I was not on any medication because the doctor told me I had mono which I found I never had because I had a test years later and did not test pos for EBV.
So sorry you are going through this. It is embarrassing, but it did pass for me. At the time I reasoned that my body was just too tired to 'wake' up. Sometimes I would wake up mid stream, other times not until morning. It was awful.
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Gee, where was this post when my kid first got sick????
Our son had bm incontinence for 2 full years, one year before lyme dx, one year after. Thankfully (on my knees singing hallelujiah) it came to an end at the beginning of this school year.
Like some of you mentioned, he had no sensation what so ever of a pending bm.
One time he actually got off the potty, saying 'I told you I didn't have to go!' only to turn around and see that he actually HAD gone.
The medication that seemed to have the most impact on this nasty symptom was zithromax (although mepron may very well be a part of this final recovery as well).
Each time he hit the three month mark of taking it, the accidents stopped, then for one reason or another, he'd get taken off of it, crash with an assortment of lyme symptoms, then he'd start right back up again.
Unfortunately, this is the one symptom that wouldn't fade until that magic three month mark.
One additional thing to consider, is seizures. It's not uncommon to have bladder incontinence during a seizure, and lyme and co. can cause seizures.
(Our child has absence seizures, probably from lyme, during which he stares off. No grand mals, so if he hadn't had an EEG, we probably never would have known about them.)
I'm sorry that you all are going through this. As a mom who was on clean up duty for potty accidents for a loooong time, I can empathize.
My theory, by the way, is that this is a neurological symptom, not a GI/urinary symptom.
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