Night wetting: has anyone had ditropan prescribed?

[IlanaK]

We went back to see the consultant today after a couple of months of using Desmopresin unsuccessfully for my 8 year old. He has given us a prescription for ditropan which is supposed to relax the bladder so it holds more at night. Has anyone had any experience of this or any side effects?

He has also suggested us contacting ERIC and the possibility of a wetting alarm thing. I have read such negative reports of them on here so am quite loathe.

I am receptive to anyone's words of wisdom on this!

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DD (6) is on Ditropan as well. She started it a couple of weeks ago and it seems to be helping. For the past year and a half she has had recurring UTIs. Every time she comes off the antibiotics, the infection returs. Oddly (but happily) I took her off the nitrofurantoin after Christmas (at doctor's request) and the infection got slightly worse for a couple of days and then cleared up. But, the weeing in her pants a few drips at a time all day long has not stopped. But, now seems to be better since starting diptropan. So fingers crossed we are on the mend!

I am much less than inpressed with the series of pediatricians and lost hospital scans that have prolonged this finding for a year and a half, and do wonder if the slow pace of getting her on ABs in the first place has resulted in bladder damage which now causes her to be incontinent. I have asked for and been refused a referral to pediatric urologist. I was refused this referral by the second pediatrician, with whom I was not terribly impressed -- not least because she had her letter typed by a registrar who was not in the room for the consultation and typed half of it wrongly. Anyway, I am going back to the GP on Wed to ask for that referal to a urologist / incontinence clinic.

What are the negative comments you have heard about ERIC? I have heard good things about both Great Ormond and Evilina. Maybe you could ask about one of them, depending on whether you are near London of course.