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Historical Bedwetting

chuckalicious

I was wondering if anyone here who has been diagnosed as being on the spectrum ever suffered from bedwetting as a child which was O my rectified with hormone treatment, specifically vasopressin. Nowadays it is given as a little paper tab you put under your tongue but when I got it it was a nasal spray. 

Reason I ask is I myself had this when I was about 10 and am now diagnosed clinically. My daughter (5) has all the same issues I did as a child and during a conversation with the school nurse regarding bedwetting she mentioned the hormone treatment. I went off and read about it and it would seem there are suggested links between autism, vasopressin and oxytocin. 

I also discovered a friend who has a severely disabled and autistic son is also on vasopressin. 

So, as a completely non-scientific survey, I wondered how many of you have had similar issues and treatment. 

  • Sorry to hear you had such a difficult time. Certainly sounds like those experiences will have made things harder for you. 

  • I was certainly a chronic bedwetter as a young boy, at least up to the age of ten.  But that was back in the 1960s (I've only recently been diagnosed with Asperger's at 55) and no treatment or explanation was offered, if indeed the subject was ever broached at all by my parents with any professional.  It would probably have been too embarrassing for them.

    My memories of it are primarily of lying on crackly plastic (to protect the mattress) and my mother's anger during the early hours of the night as she pulled off yet another set of wet sheets.  The only "therapy" I ever remember is her instructing me every night to bang my head on the pillow, while saying out loud, "I will NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT wet my bed tonight" - probably the worst possible advice!

    While I haven't been a bedwetter since early childhood, I do wonder if my guilt and stress half-a-century ago around this unpleasant and badly managed problem has caused many of my lifelong psychological issues, including insomnia which has been particularly bad for the last 16 years.