8yo DS Bedwetting

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Hi
I've posted about this before but my 8yo DS has never had a dry night. He has been on desmomelts since October last year (upped to a double dose in January this year) by the peadeatrician but these haven't made any difference at all and every night his pull up is still full. We always do the double toilet visit before bed, no dark drinks, lots of fluids in the day, etc but there have been no improvements. I'm now thinking of looking into a bed wetting type alarm to help him. What are people's experiences of these and what would people recommend?
Thanks

Anyone?

Not exactly the same situation but out of the blue, my 10 year old daughter started wetting the bed. Came out of nowhere and she was a bubbly bright confident child, achieving well at school, had plenty of friends good homelife yadayadayad. We went to the school nurse who was fab and forwarded us to the children's clinic who immediately gave us an alarm box to use at night. I doubt this is common but from the first night, we put it on she never wet the bed again. I know this is probably one in a million but what I would say is what do you have to lose. Good luck I'm sure it will improve.

Just sharing your frustration. No advice, just sympathy. My son ( and a generation earlier, my brother) wet regularly until 8 and occasionally to 11. One of my sons friends continued beyond that and had acupuncture, medication, alarms etc. something kicked in eventually.

I'm 46, I wet the bed every single night until secondary school, half way through the first year. I had tablets that were little pink things, no idea what they were called, (mums passed now and I can't ask) but they didn't help. The doctor said I had a weak valve in my bladder but nothing changed. I had a plastic sheet under my top sheet and then one day it just stopped. They actually did consider that I slept so deeply I didn't wake because even if I wet the bed I never ever woke. Listen, it will go, it doesn't help you. Now but it will resolve itself

I was also wearing a Terry nappy and rubbers to bed when I was five. I've got a massive bladder capacity now

My eldest wet his bed pretty much every night but it stopped age 9 all of a sudden. We did ask for medical help but never got the medication as they kept saying he’d grow out of it - as he did in the end. We tried an alarm but tbh it didn’t really help.

I think time is the only answer! It’s now been 3 years and he hasn’t had an accident at all for at least two years.