To pee or not to pee; the survey

[Rainer]

Thanks, Quero for an interesting post. I assume by urine flow increasing 300% you actually mean urine production. Assuming this is true, I can understand why peeing just isn't an issue for me. Even when well hydrated (e.g. playing sports), I rarely pee more than twice per day. With 90 minute dives, I have still yet to feel a full bladder while under water. If this isn't true for everyone, then so be it. My main point was that not everyone pees themselves. For some reason, that seems a difficult thing for many to understand.

 

[ClevelandDiver]

Thanks, Quero for an interesting post. I assume by urine flow increasing 300% you actually mean urine production. Assuming this is true, I can understand why peeing just isn't an issue for me. Even when well hydrated (e.g. playing sports), I rarely pee more than twice per day. With 90 minute dives, I have still yet to feel a full bladder while under water. If this isn't true for everyone, then so be it. My main point was that not everyone pees themselves. For some reason, that seems a difficult thing for many to understand.

How many dives do you have in a wetsuit?

 

[Rainer]

50 in the current (non-peed in wetsuit). Dude, it just isn't a problem for me. Get over it.

 

[ClevelandDiver]

50 in the current (non-peed in wetsuit). Dude, it just isn't a problem for me. Get over it.

I lasted nearly 100 dives and had the EXACT same attitude as you until that point, Dude.

 

[Rainer]

Congratulations!

 

[Quero]

Thanks, Quero for an interesting post. I assume by urine flow increasing 300% you actually mean urine production. Assuming this is true, I can understand why peeing just isn't an issue for me. Even when well hydrated (e.g. playing sports), I rarely pee more than twice per day. With 90 minute dives, I have still yet to feel a full bladder while under water. If this isn't true for everyone, then so be it. My main point was that not everyone pees themselves. For some reason, that seems a difficult thing for many to understand.

You're welcome, Rainer. I did mean "flow" though, flowing from the kidneys to the bladder; but of course for it to "flow", it has to have been "produced" so we're both right

 

[plot]

I'm with rainer. Have yet to pee in my wetsuit... rarely feel the sensation, and when I do, I hold it until I can get out of my wetsuit... then I jump in and do my business.

I'm sure the day will come when I have to go so bad that I just let it all out... I don't think I'll ever be able to make a habit of it though.

 

[wb5plj]

I have never pee'ed in my wetsuit (do you know how much that thing cost!?!?). I don't ever intend to either but then again I suppose it is possible that I will find my self in the position that I don't care that much. For the most part I get so dehydrated while diving that it has never been an issue. The reason is more of an idyllic one. Just like I don't pee in my clothes or my bead I think that it is a basic self control issue. I realize that what we all (almost all) do is sweat in our wetsuits and basically that ain't that much different from very diluted pee but the biology to me don't mater that much, again it is more the concept. I also don't crawl back in the water in my swim trunks so that I can pee in them either. I don't pee in the shower or a bath and I don't pee in the swimming pool. I know I look the part of a cave man but a refined one

 

[big diver]

if I got to go bad enough then I will other wise I will hold it

 

[JcoldwaterIL]

I don't pee in mine, but I'm curious what the habitual pee ers do when theyre diving in water temps below 45 or so degrees. do you flush the suit and risk hypothermia? or do you wait til your out on land and strip down and let pee splatter all over everything?