How to pee every time

[Teamcasa]

You may have to change your name from pennypue to pennypee!

Dave

Prior to diving I could NEVER bring myself to pee in water, whether ocean, pool or bathtub. My instructor told me I needed to get over that. So I went into training.

1. Get in the pool. Drink lots of alcohol. (No, not diving) Don't get out till you can pee. Work your way up to being able to talk to a stranger while peeing in the pool. This is why the alcohol helps.

2. Practice peeing in the shower.

3. Get in the shower in your clothes. Bring a plastic bag and plan on doing laundry afterwards. No running water either.....just pee in your clothes. (ok, ok.....try using depends instead!)

Once you can accomplish this, you're cured.

I read a university psych study where college students were being PAID to pee in their clothes. Pee, you get paid, no pee, no pay. :lol: Only a very very small number of subjects could manage to do it.

 

[DandyDon]

This has been a strangely comforting thread to read since I had the exact same issue this past weekend. I didn't have any issues with wanting to go during the dive. The mind was certainly willing, but the tight wetsuit made it a near impossibility and it just wouldn't happen. When I went snoreling on the same trip without the wetsuit on, no problem whatsoever.

Your suit is too tight.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Either that, or wetsuit squeeze, which is solved the same way as flushing your wetsuit. Pull the neck open and flood the suit.

 

[RedWingDiver]

Your suit is too tight.

Either that, or wetsuit squeeze, which is solved the same way as flushing your wetsuit. Pull the neck open and flood the suit.

The suit was definitely too tight. I pretty much knew it on the dive. It was a rental.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Glad to see that you got the problem worked out, then. Congrats.

 

[plot]

I'm unable to pee in my wet suit for some reason, I always run onto the boat, strip everything off really quickly, and jump back in the water in my swimming trunks with people giving me a funny look.

Took me years to even be able to take a leak in my swimming trunks...


alchohol while sitting on some floaty devices relaxing on a nice warm sunny day in the lake is how I got over the peeing while in swimming trunks problem... wouldn't recommend mixing alchohol with diving though.

 

[redrover]

There is a caveat here however; at least it was for me.
Years ago when I managed to pee in the water… on 2 week bareboat sail when the head crapped out, my Ex and another took it upon themselves to fix it and it took a couple of days to figure out where the last several remaining parts were supposed to have been before they thought it was done…I found myself considerably challenged to not automatically pee when in the water.

 

[pennypue]

Ok, are you the reason why the local YMCA pool is constantly closed?????

Nope. I did my practice in Mexico.

Just don't get in my shower at home.

 

[DandyDon]

I used to know a drunk who'd pee in his wet suit before he got on the boat. Glad he doesn't dive anymore...

 

[wombat201]

Don't have a problem with peeing in my wetsuit, but I have to stop and think about it for sure! I did have a problem on vacation in Egypt - 3 days sailing the Nile on a felucca - very basic sailboat, with no erm, facilities until we docked at night - peeing through the day involved jumping over the back of the moving boat, doing your business while hanging onto a rope thrown to you by the crew, then signalling when you want to get hauled back in... for some reason I had great difficulty letting it go while getting pulled through the river at several knots, with an audience of the Egyptian crew who were "keeping an eye on me"! Going in my wetsuit's easy in comparison!