Monday, August 23, 2010

Urologist and ENT!

Ryan finally saw the urologist in regards to her daytime wetting that to be honest can drive a mother crazy!! He basically concluded that this is caused from not releasing all of the urine during output. Because of that the child will have to go much more often and more urgently causing them to have accidents. So to help Ryan finish each time she has to sit on the potty backwards so that she has no choice but to release it all (it is impossible to stop this flow this way) every 2 hours. I looked at the Dr like he was crazy because I know there is no way this girl can go 2 hours without having to go pee! She drinks like a camel!!! She chugs everything put in front of her. So after a week of trying every 2 hours she was wetting in between of course! So now we have our alarm set every hour and we'll see if that makes any difference. I personally think that Ryan drinks too much and has to go very often and she gets tired of always having to go so she tries to hold it and of course fails!! She never has accidents at church or during preschool speech which is 2 hours long! I dont know though there could be something wrong with her bladder. But we will try this crazy Dr's advice. He says if this does not work she needs to take a bladder relaxant (which I am against doing) and if that doesnt work then do some testing to see is she has some bladder or nerve problems. I think if we get her off of sippy cups that would help a ton. She prefers the sippy because she can chug. After a few times she always wants to go back to having that lid and chugging. When she uses a real cup she drinks much less which I think would at least help some. The other culprit to her problem is being tired! The girl hasnt taken a nap since a few months before her 3rd bday. Sometimes though she needs one. When she is tired you can forget dry panties!! Another reason she is so tired is that she is waking a lot at night from probably sleep apnea. So we went to the ENT and she confirmed that she may indeed have sleep apnea and many times clearing sleep apnea has helped with wetting!! So surgery is scheduled for Sept 2nd to have tonsils and adnoids taken out. We are hoping all of this works together and we find a way to have 2 girls with dry panties all day!! Not looking forward to this surgery again as it was hard on Bekah for a while who is much tougher than Ryan. But after lots of love and tv I know she will recover just fine!!

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