Changing in public

Changing around public, I prefer to wait until I get home. I'm sure I'm not the only one. If I've flooded or (worst) dirtied my diaper, I stop what I was doing and simply go home. Of course sometimes you just can't. Like being so far from home. I always have my diaper bag in my car but to be honest I rarely use it. I really hate using public bathrooms. But everyone knows that sometimes you just have to change. And I have. I try to wear an extra booster to reduce the chances from public changes. Most of the time I know that my normal diaper is good for 4 -6 hours. If I know I'm going to be out longer prior, I just add a booster. If I know I might be out even longer I'll use one of a double booster set up. Either way, it's always easier to just sit it out. Even if I have a dirty diaper, I know I'm still good for several hours (Nullo) though it will probably be uncomfortable.
 
At work I’m lucky as I’m a truck driver with a sleeper cab so just draw curtains and change
 
You get numb to the worries about sounds and sights of changing in a public bathroom after a while, Or i have anyway. It's either change or walk round with leak spots on my clothes. I try to chamge in disabled toilets as they have more room, are generally cleaner, and have provision for the disposal of dirty pads/nappies. But i have had to change in some very sketchy places over the years. It took years to become so confident, but now, i really couldn't care who notices anything. I'm incontinent and mildly disabled and thats that.
 
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If I need to change while I’m out, I always use disabled/accessible toilets because I’m a wheelchair user. This solves some of the issues people with IC face, but it does create others.

I still have some mobility in my legs, which means I can still change myself but I’m still very limited. Which is why I wear thicker diapers (sometimes ABDL ones) under a onesie, so I don’t have to change as often when I’m away from home. Lack of mobility in my body also means that it can take me longer to change.

When I do need to change my diaper, I’ll try and use toilets with adult changing tables, as they make everything much cleaner and safer for me.

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Dinotopian2002 said:
If I need to change while I’m out, I always use disabled/accessible toilets because I’m a wheelchair user. This solves some of the issues people with IC face, but it does create others.

I still have some mobility in my legs, which means I can still change myself but I’m still very limited. Which is why I wear thicker diapers (sometimes ABDL ones) under a onesie, so I don’t have to change as often when I’m away from home. Lack of mobility in my body also means that it can take me longer to change.

When I do need to change my diaper, I’ll try and use toilets with adult changing tables, as they make everything much cleaner and safer for me.

Breathe Deep, Seek Peace
Dinotopian2002
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Yes,i wear a rhick diaper when out, and usually can avoid the hassle of changing when out of the house. I also use a wheelchair when i'm out (Can walk a very short distance sometime).

I try to find the family bathrooms as much as possible, changing in a handicap stall is very difficult for me, the family restrooms are bigger and usually (99% of the time) I end up needing some help from my PCA when i'm out, Getting up/Standing up and alike quite often causes BP issues and I can and do at minimum have to quickly sit/ly down or rist passing out, so TBH changing in a stall is actually somewhat dangerous when it comes down to it.

I wish there were more family restrooms for sure, sometimes i;ve needed to go out to the van and change there, easier than in a regular or even a handicap bathroom. Can lay down and change that way, I rarely ever change standing up.
 
a while ago i went into a rest area and it had someone sitting there working, i guess to take care of the place, i remember walking past her, she said hello, so did i, but i had a messy diaper , so i headed right to the family restroom , went in there and it was really clean, and the trash bins were clean and empty, i changed and tossed it in there, put some paper towels over the top, but was thinking shes there all day and sees who goes into the bathooms...hope if i go there again she doesnt remember, doubt she will
 
Soggy247 said:
You get numb to the worries about sounds and sights of changing in a public bathroom after a while,
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Yes, this is true for the most part. But IMO, public restroom changes are still one of the worst things about IC management. It's gotten easier, to where I generally don't sweat it. And good products make it a fairly rare occurrence. But it took me a LONG time to get to this point (like, decades) and I still feel self-conscious about the noises that the tapes make.

The hardest is changing at work. We have just one set of multi-stall restrooms in the building and they have the crappiest partitions with giant gaps around the doors. Since it is a workplace, the comforting anonymity that comes with a public restroom is gone; these are people I work with daily and all they have to do is look at my shoes to know who I am.

Fortunately I work remote now so it's only an issue a few times a year when I have to be on-site, but man I hated that restroom when I had to be there every day! More than once I had leaks from avoiding the dreaded stalls, and I'm sure a few people around the office know my deal, but nobody ever said anything.
 
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