<p>I have suffered from bedwetting since11 and dont know what to do in college. I use disposable underwear to help my problem but what should i do. Do i tell the school and ask to be put with someone with a similar problem? Do i try and hide it from my roomate? Any one have sugestions?</p>
<p>I would suggest perhaps asking for a single room for medical reasons although I think you will be fine with a double. You can just try to explain your situation to your roommate and I do not think that would scare them off or anything.</p>
<p>I would definitely talk to the school - they deal with problems like this all the time, and will hopefully be sympathetic to your issue. Options could be your own room to having a roomie with similar issues. As for sharing this with your roomate if you just follow the normal course of selection and assignment, I would urge caution - you may end up with a sweet and caring person who will support your situation, or a total _ _ _ hole who might go out of their way to embarass you. It’s a risk because you don’t know the type of person you’ll be dealing with, and that’s reality.</p>
<p>Definitely try to get a single. Call the housing office ASAP.</p>
<p>have you choosen your college? If not, include the dorm set up as a criteria. There are a number of colleges that offer suites, where you will have your own room, and share a bath with only one or two other people instead of a hall bath.</p>
<p>That will allow you to keep your privacy.</p>
<p>Push for a single. Call your housing office. Personally, if it was me I wouldn’t tell my roommate.</p>
<p>I know you are not asking for suggestions about this, but it worked so well for our son, when nothing else would, so I feel I have to mention it. It took care of the problem that he struggled with for many years.</p>
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<p>Good luck, and have a great first year of college.</p>
<p>2-3% of adults have this problem so I’m sure that colleges have dealt with this before.
I’d call up the disabilities office and ask.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice- more will be apprecuated- thanks</p>
<p>Definitely go with the single. I think it’s a bad idea to tell your roommate. Unfortunately, like Stonemagic said, you can end up with a roommate who will be totally understanding, or a complete ******bag. Single may not be the “traditional freshman college experience”, but it will save you a lot of stress your first year. You already have to adjust to being in college, and having to constantly worry about how roommate will handle your problem is not a good idea. And a roommate may not go out of their way to embarrass/humiliate you, but they most probably will tell a close friend of theirs your problem. The close friend tells another “close friend” and blah blah blah. After that, it’s a done deal. I know it sounds like I see the worst in people. But in such a case, it’s better to be cautious.</p>
<p>Get a single if possible, but definitely DO NOT TELL YOUR ROOMMATE. Some people seem nice, but they’re not, etc. You don’t want your first semester/year of college to be ruined because of a nasty person that can’t keep their mouth shut.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>One of my cousins had the same issue, he just told people he has a bladder infection and wets the bed.</p>
<p>And he’s a big, muscular, 6’5 black guy, so I doubt his roommates told people lol.</p>
I had this problem in college. I had a car and my roommate needed to borrow it from time to time so he wasn’t about to tell anyone about my, bedwetting. I wore pin on diapers with plastic pants to keep the bed dry. He was actually pretty cool about it. There were only a few times he asked I do the laundry because the plastic bag I’d put my wet diapers in would start to smell after a couple of days. We had laundry facilities we could use and once I forgot to go back and empty the dryer. When I remembered I found my diapered piled on the table in the laundry room. Fortunately no one was in there when I collected them. I always knew there was another guy in my dorm that knew there was a diaper wearer somewhere.
You probably know this, but just in case you don’t, there’s medication you can take which slows the production of urine at night. One of my sons wet his bed into the teenage years and he would take this drug when he went to camp, or had a sleepover. Bedwetting can be to the lack of production of a certain hormone. Once one’s body starts making the hormone (which happens at different times for different people) the bedwetting stops immediately.
This post is 8 years old. Closing.