Fancypants2001 said:
Do you claim that for your VA Disability? How do you have it claimed? What is the tie-in to being service connected? Those are real questions I have. Hard to imagine being awarded a claim percentage for that without something like PTSD associated or like suffering trauma to the abdomen. I ask because I wonder how their remedy for those claims would be? I am being serious. But I will entertain.
{ Enuresis } Scheduled nightly alarms to void. Pills. Electroshock padding.
{ Overflow Incont } Adult diapers.
PS, I am not being a wisenheimer - I am being serious.
PSS, If you wear to appointments, what is the concerned discussion from the Doctors?
Great questions! So the VA provides full health coverage to certain Vets (depends on your rating). You're not limited to just coverage for service-connected disabilities.
When my bedwetting came back I informed my VA Primary Care doctor that I'd been having occasional accidents at night. I told him about my history as a kid, about my accidents in boot camp, and that the incidents were happening more and more now. To my surprise he was really casual about it and told me his daughter was 13 and still wet the bed. He asked me if I would like him to write a prescription for diapers, and of course I accepted. So for the last 6 years or so the VA has been sending me Abena Abriform Premium diapers. They're cloth-backed (not my favorite) but they do the job for a bedwetting diaper.
Over the last few years I've asked them to help me understand why I'm wetting the bed at night, and have met with VA Urologists, a Neurologist, an Endocrinologist, and a Psychologist. They've done sleep studies, blood work, etc. and haven't really identified the cause. They do say that I have a mildly overactive bladder and bladder retention due to a slightly large prostate. So that's causing me to not empty all the way and causing overflow incontinence. But it doesn't explain why I don't wake up when I have to pee. The Neurologist actually thinks its stress related and encouraged me to seek therapy, so now I'm talking to a VA therapist about stress and my bedwetting.
In my experience, once you have OAB, bedwetting, enuresis, or incontinence in your chart, you can wear diapers at any appointment and nobody is going to question you. I've worn diapers for knee xrays that required me to take off my pants, I've worn diapers during skin cancer screenings that required me to disrobe, and it's no big deal. In fact, every VA nurse or doctor I see who looks at my chart sees two things right away:
1. Current medications, which include diapers
2. Current medical conditions, which includes bedwetting, oab, and overflow incontinence
At this point if someone did ask my why I was diapered during the daytime, I would simply explain that they're just a precaution, especially since so many bathrooms are closed due to covid and the VA makes me stand in a long line without using the bathroom.