restroom issues

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I've written in the past about my eldest son, AS, ocd whole lotta other stuff...

This is about my totally normal (fingers crossed) youngest, age 10.

He has been doing some repeating of 'good night' when he goes to bed, as if it

needs to be the last thing he says. Okay, I can live with that. We try to

'disrupt' it, but it's not something I want to call OCD.

Now, though, he's having trouble with his bladder and I don't know if it's

something for his GP, or if it too might be OCD.

He says he can't ever fully empty his bladder. He'll pee, then 30 seconds later

feel like he has to go again, tries, some urine dribbles out, then waits, feels

like he has to go a few seconds later, tries agian, some more dribbles out...

All summer long, he'd run into the house to pee, then run back in a few seconds

or minutes later complaining " I hate my bladder " to pee again. I've pretty much

ignored it (because our doc is away until Oct. and there's no one else. Medical

system problems here in Canada.)

Last night, before a big hockey tournament game, he says he was in the washroom

for 15 minutes because every time he thought he was done, he wasn't. Said his

teammates were all yelling at him 'what are you doing in there?' and 'geez, took

you long enough'. He's embarassed.

I am wondering... His dad's a bit like this. Over-analyzes little body

sensations until he's convinced it's a medical problem. (Ooooh, he'd hate to

hear me say this. DELETE everyone!) Anyway, I do believe dh has OCD, and he

kinda thinks so too.

Is it possble youngest ds has something like this going on? I mean, the more you

think about your bladder and if it's completely empty, the more you think maybe

it's not. And maybe the mroe you try to pee over and over again, the more you

maybe irritate those muscles, or something?

I hate to have him go through bladder testing when I sorta suspect it's more an

OCD thing. He's freaked at the idea of a doctor looking 'down there'. At the

same time, it's becoming a bigger issue for him. I suggested he try to ignore

the feeling that he has to go 'again', and get on with life. He says if he

ignores it, he'll only have to really 'go' in a few minutes. Told me as he left

for school his new plan is to go every hour.

What do you think?

kimz