This is embarrassing but does anyone else wet the bed on antipsychotics

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I think it’s ziprasidones fault that I pee the bed sometimes it knocks me out no getting up during the night I sleep til morning and if I don’t pee before bed I end up peeing in bed it’s horrible so much cleaning my mattress pad

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I just have bladder issues in general, grrr.
I had been dealing with it for almost 2 years but i finally got sick of it and talked to a doctor about it. The issues started mainly when they put me on my current long term medication. So now i take a tablet to fend off most of the issue.
I feel the same as you, at this age i shouldn’t have to be dealing with these issues.

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I have been on Ziprasidon or Geodon for 10 years or more. Have never peed in my bed.

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Me too well 8 years maybe it just me not the meds

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I would bring it up with your psychiatrist and gp.

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“There is increasing evidence that as a side-effect of second-generation antipsychotics, particularly clozapine, it may be underrecognised.”

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I actually tried to tell my primary that i thought it was because of the medication. She basically said no and then sent me to a specialist.

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Sometimes our GP’s answers don’t seem very smart to us. But, maybe we should remember that they are humans too, and they are often pushed to spend an average of about 15 minutes with each patient.

I once had an alternative medicine practitioner (I’m not recommending alternative medicine) tell me that one of the reasons he felt he did a better job with patients was that he could spend an hour with them, instead of 15 minutes.

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That is very true. I miss the old days of medicine.
Now the majority of them have their faces glued to the screen clicking boxes. If they don’t meet the ridiculous electronic charting requirements, then they don’t get paid.

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I totally did on clozapine

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I’ve not had incontience issues since the catatonic episodes ended many years ago. Thank heavens for that. Nothing more embarrassing than being so ill you’re not toileting properly.

Are you seeing a doctor about this? it could be something else, but should definitely be followed up.

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Only my.mom knows but I will follow up with my doctors it’s been happening in secret for years

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Probably not the same - but i have a waterproof cover on my mattress for that reason. Especially if i been drinking and dosed up on Queitiapine - i have “leaked”. Bloody embarrasing. Usually happens when im coughing in bed whilst asleep - (i smoke far too much).

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They can’t treat what they don’t know about. Please don’t ever be embarrassed about asking for help with problems, you’re doing the right thing.

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I’m not being sarcastic, but I started drinking more and more water during the day and some how I got on a type of cyrcadium rhythm where I didn’t have to pee in the middle of the night, which stopped that embarrassing topic, also the benzodiazepine: restoril started it after years of stopping. I was a bed wetter growing up, probably the trauma I went through

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I mean restoril brought the bedwetting back to the surface

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I’ve been peeing the bed at night ever since I was eighteen years old. Long before I was on AP’s. I didn’t start on AP’s until I was 31 years old. I peed the bed all of my life. I quit doing it about three years ago, in 2016, after my psychosis ended.

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risperdal will do it. I was warned about that before I was put on it. I started wearing adult diapers for that and OAB and am likely stuck with it. I am used to it. Meds for OAB can interact with psych meds so I can’t take OAB meds.

This sounds kind of weird, but I used to wake up to go to the bathroom and take 2 hours to get back to sleep. Enuresis to me is preferable than insomnia.

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I’m on Risperdal. I have been on Risperdal for many years and I peed the bed on it. But, I’m on it now and I don’t pee the bed anymore. I think peeing the bed might be more due to psychosis than meds. Maybe. Idk.

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I agree @SkinnyMe I was on risperdal for 3 years, and I didn’t bed wet, but since I was a baby to about 15 I did, my sister stopped at 12. So maybe for me it was a combination of a traumatic childhood, to psychosis. I had bits of hallucinations when I was in elementary school, but that was probably from trauma too because it was after a night my father physically abused my mom, and then kicked in the house door, broke his foot, I walked in the house and I was seeing things.

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