Nighttime wetting - 8yo boy

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Hi everyone, I'm hoping that some of you out there have been in a similar situation and can share their experiences. We've got an appointment with a paediatrician in a few weeks time and I'd like to have an idea of what treatments there are out there that have worked.

DS1 is 8.5 and has always been wet at night. Very wet, every night. We've been seeing the enuresis clinic for about 18 months, and done the usual drink-more-water advice. We tried an alarm, but he's such a deep sleeper that he struggled to wake and everything was soaked through by the time we'd got to his room. Also, it was going off maybe 4-5 times a night, so we were all exhausted, especially DS1.

He's been taking 240µg desmomelt for the last 4/5 months, and he's still got a reasonably heavy pull-up every morning, so that doesn't reslly seem to be working.

Where can we go from here? What else is there they can do?

I'm sure you have but have you been on the ERIC website?
Lots of useful info. I had DS (10) in pull ups at night until he was about 7 but then it slowly got better and now he's fine. If he had more than a 1/4 cup of milk at bedtime, he would wet in the night but his bladder Obviously matured and now can tolerate more than that. He loves bedtime milk and wouldn't give it up.
ERIC

Hi, yes, I've been on the ERIC website, but the treatments they describe, aren't working for us, so I was hoping to hear about anything else that people had tried when the usual tactics don't work.

But, in mentioning the website, you have reminded me that they have an advice line, so I might give that a ring. I just don't want to be fobbed off at our next appointment with a "just give it more time" line, if there is something else that can be done - am conscious that yr 6 residential school trips are looming...

I'm glad your DS is dry now though - was it just a question of time, or did you use alarms/medication as well?

You are right. If it impacts on school trips etc it can be hard. DS hasn't been on any yet due to his epilepsy.
A friend's child was still not dry in year 6/7 (but was due to another health problem) and she wore PJ pants when she went on school trips and was very discreet about getting changed etc.

DS did it on his own. We lifted him before we went to bed for a while and as I said, lived his bedtime drink but other than that, it just got better with time.

Hope your DS does too.

My 8 year old dd wasnt dry until last year. She's quite tall and developed for her age so she was absolutely soaked through pull ups.

The enuresis clinic werent great. I ended up buying my own alarm. She initially slept (and wee'd!) through the alarm and we were also pretty much sleep deprived. I just persevered despite dd hating it. It took 6 weeks to work. I think the timeline went roughly as below-
Week 1 - sleep and wee through alarm
Week 2 - wake up a bit during the process
Week 3 - waking up mid wee
Week 4 - sometimes stopping mid wee and finishing in the toilet
Week 5 - usually waking up during wee and going to toilet
Week 6 - waking up to go to toilet before weeing
Week 7 - not weeing/waking up

Thanks Verbena and Fairy for your comments, they're much appreciated. That's interesting about your daughter, fairy - maybe I do need to persevere with the alarm, after all (and invest in some good under-eye concealer!