Is it normal for someone who had a bedwetting problem as a child to have a smaller bladder as an adult?

I'm a male in my late 20s and wet the bed every night growing up until I was about 12, and after that pretty much learned to wake up during the night when I need to go to the bathroom before it's too late, but have still had occasional "accidents" even into my 20's (usually either from drinking too much late at night and/or being too tired or sound asleep to wake up in time). Even in my adult life I've always had to empty my bladder much more frequently than most people (about 8-12 times a day on average, and once or twice at night). I don't have diabetes or any other serious medical problems, and I doubt it's an infection or anything since I've pretty much always been this way.

Is it just that my bladder has never grown to a normal adult size after all of my years of bedwetting? Has anyone else who was a bedwetter as a child noticed this also?

Thanks for any input, I know this is a very hard question to talk about for anyone who has been through this!

I'm the same way, so I'm sure it's possible.

I have to use the bathroom all the time, it seems. I thought that was normal until it became obvious that I go twice as much as most people seem to. The problem I have is that because of the small capacity, I go from being fine, to being very uncomfortable in a short period of time. For me this is a bad problem at night, as I sometimes don't feel the signal until it is too late. I have had occasional dreams where I am experiencing extreme pain in my abdomen, and then it suddenly stops (I assume this is when my bladder can't hold it and releases). Obviously pain from my body is getting into my dreams, but I think because it happens so fast my body can't catch up so that I can wake up in time. Most times I don't even know it happens at all until afterwards. My bladder capacity is clearly not what general medicine accepts to be a normal adult size, which I am absolutely certain, contributes to my problems with the similar issues to yours.

The daytime frequency problem is annoying to say the least... I never seem to notice anyone else using the bathroom as much as I do. In any group, I'm always the one who has to go first, and most often.

O.K. my friends husband was/is like you and his son had the exact same problem - yes it is because you have a smaller bladder than normal and yes you will probably pass it on to your son. This I know because I have read up on it and helped my friend when she was going through this with her son.

I was a bed wetter until I was 12 also. I still have to set the alarm every 2 hours during the night. It has ceased to be ok as I am now 51. Last time I was in the hospital, they ran some tests and decided that I have a bladder the size of an 18 month old child. I think that there are treatments now, so, if you have insurance, it would be worth looking into.



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I have the same problem as you did. One of my teachers told me that we can train our bladders, and I did it... and surely with time and discipline I don't bedwet anymore. I don't think your bladder is smaller because of the incident, sometimes our parents has really a part in training us, as we grow... I mean in the right direction, if they know better!

i go to the bathroom quite often too, at nights as well, but i think that in my cause it's just stress! i don't know if you have a small bladder but you should check it out.