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I was a bedwetter. While I have two siblings who also have OSA, supposedly, I was the only one out of 6 children who wet the bed. However, I was also the youngest, and the meanyheads (my siblings) lied to me about other things, so it's possible they lied about this, too.

No bedwetting, but intermittent sleep-walking at about 9 or 10 years old.

Kajun

I did wet the bed as a child (until age 11), and I believe I also had apnea. However, I was on a certain anti-seizure medication that has as a side effect making children sleep so soundly that they don't wake up to use the restroom. Of course, they didn't know about that side effect back then, and so I was blamed. My poor mother tried everything the doctors recommended - including a bed pad that shocked me when it felt wetness! Thank God I don't remember that. Two days after they took me off my anti-seizure medication, the bed-wetting stopped. Would I have still wet the bed if I had not been on that medication, due to apnea? Who knows.

Add me to the bed wetting also. I can even remember my mom taking me the doctor for it. I can remember him saying something about a reward system for going with out any accidents. I don't remember when I stopped 9 or 10 maybe.

kteague, please feel free to set up a poll! No hijacking worries at all! I'm at the office and then I have a business dinner to go to so I wouldn't be able to set up anything until tomorrow afternoon.

If kteague isn't available (and I think your breakdown ideas were great) if anyone has the time - go for it!

This is really interesting!

I can not remember ever wetting my bed, but this an interesting topic. I know someone who is having this problem with their child. I will send some info to her.

add me to the NO column in bedwetting

See new thread with poll. If you already replied here, please also complete the poll. Thanks.

I wasn't a bedwetter, but this is a great thread, I'm going to go & vote in the poll (pool??!!)

SleepingBeauty wrote:I was talking to two friends who both have apnea. One mentioned that he was snoring even as a little child. He also mentioned that he slept so hard he never woke during the night to use the bathroom and was a bed wetter until about age 7.

I was not a bed wetter.
I was ALWAYS a VERY LIGHT sleeper though, and tossed and turned a lot...until CPAP therapy.

I'm surprised that an untreated apneac could sleep so soundly that he/she would not awaken from 'the urge'.

Amusingly enough, not only was I a bedwetter until about 7 or 8, when I was diagnosed with OSA my mother said, "You used to stop breathing in your sleep as a child but the doctor told me not to worry about it." Way to go doc. I could've been going on 23 years compliance!

EJD

I wasn't a bed wetter, but I used to get up in the middle of the night and not be even 60% there. One time I wet my sister's bed (she woke up in time thankfully) because I wasn't alive enough to know where I was. I just went in the wrong door and used the toilet like normal.

When my sister screamed bloody murder and my parents both came running down the hall at full speed, I still didn't wake up, and only heard about all this the next morning.

Julie wrote: Also interesting is that another poster said her apnea started with a whiplash, and many apnea pts carry their heads a bit forward on their necks, which makes me wonder about something very instrinsic to the area, possibly even in the brain stem, though I have no idea what. Any ideas Dr. Bandage or ??

Sorry I didn't include this in previous post...

I also 'carry my head a bit forward'.
I had a chair pulled out from under me around age 9, and felt lightning.
I have scoliosis, which was 'corrected' as much as possible at age 37.

I've often wondered if there is any relationship between the latter two, since the scoliosis is 'idiopathic'/unknown cause/not hereditary.

I've been a 'champion' snorer since my mid-20's at least...and still try!

OHR - I didn't mention it before, but I also have scoliosis (don't know if it was from going straight up & then straight down off a horse at 15 or when it started, and I've also wondered about a connection with OSA and other things.