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I have found that the best pull up brand for my husband is Tena for men. I order them online from Walgreens. I also put a pad in them; this way I don't have to get him undressed when he is wet. The Tena brand is the best brand that I've found. Unfortunately, I can't get them in stores anywhere.
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Dollar General sells disposable briefs.They have a number of types in different sizes. They seem to hold up just as well as those we were getting from a higher-priced store.

You can also set up a recurring order on their website, so your order is delivered automatically to your home (monthly, every 2 months, every 2 weeks, etc).

It's FREE SHIPPING and 5% off. If you prefer going to a local Dollar General store, they've got a $5 off deal going on now, where the receipt invites you to come back the following week, spend at least $25, and get $5 off. Very nice.
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Walgreens sells many kinds of disposable underwear. I rarely have diarrhea, but when I'm having an episode thereof the briefs come in real handy. If it's just urine that is the problem, you might talk to his doctor about an external or even internal Foley. I have an internal one, because after 27 years since my spinal cord injury I've been unable to pee the regular way, so my bladder has shrunk to about fist-size, says my urologist.
If bowels are involved, then the paper pants would definitely be in order. I hope this helps, and good luck to both of you.
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Can he make it to a bedside commode?
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My mother uses Tranquility pull ups with two "top liners" at night and has great luck with these 2 products. The top liners are large rectangular flat liner that fit inside the pull ups, they give great extra protection. She orders them both from Comfort Plus--they have a web site.
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Tranquility premium overnights holds the most liquids than any other diaper I have tried. I also use the booster pads and disposable bed pads as a precaution.
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What assandache7 said, Tranquility Premium Overnight. They are the only ones I've found that are any good. They last 8 to 9 hours.
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The best product I can recommend is SENI Super Plus Pullon. I believe they are available on Amazon for the best price. They are super absorbent and yet remain dry to the skin when full. They are also very soft. Know waist or hip size which ever is larger to find the correct size, they should fit on the snugger side. Booster pads are the pads made to go inside of disposable products. Tranqulity Topliner has an adhesive tape and they can also be stacked.
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North shore is awesome! They have everything! I loved the booster liners, as well,as being able to,get daytime and nighttime and disposal bags, etc
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When my dad could no longer safely walk by himself to the bathroom, he started wearing an external, condom-style catheter overnight. He continues to wear briefs during the day.

Medicare covered the condom catheters at 100%. After many years, Dad developed too much irritation from wearing the condom catheter (perhaps due to the latex or silicone--not sure which he was wearing back then). But thankfully by then the Men's Liberty external catheter was on the market (this is a completely different style that wraps around only the tip of the male body part). With a letter of medical necessity from Dad's doctor, Medicare also has paid for this overnight catheter at 100%.

I can't imagine leaving someone overnight with just a brief and/or pads. For my dad it would be too much urine and his skin is way too sensitive. And if he had cut back on his fluids to avoid urinating as much, he might have had more bladder problems than he's had (Dad rarely gets bladder infections--maybe once a year at most).

At the same time, if one is a daughter taking care of a dad by herself, without a mom or a brother to put on and to take off the catheter, it's a pickle. We've been fortunate that Mom has been willing to put on/take off the catheter for those times when we don't have an agency caregiver available, which is most of the time. (I have been the primary caregiver for my dad for the past few years, but my mom continues to take the catheter off in the morning and put it on at night, and she is the one who wipes after a bowel movement, since I would not be comfortable with doing that for a male family member. Agency caregivers come in to give Dad a shower three times a week, etc.)
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I researched all brands and found the TENA overnight brand the best. It held the largest capacity of urine and my husband could sleep all night without the wetness feeling. Call the company reps of each brand and talk with them. They will send samples
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My husband uses Depends in the fitted brief style and they really hold a lot and don't seem to feel really wet. However, I would guess that each person feels differently about them. Jim's fit a little larger in the groin area so that could be why he doesn't feel the wetness.
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My dad is 101. He also can no longer walk without a walker and is very slow, too slow to get up several times at night to get to the bathroom. And diapers/briefs really were not satisfactory to him. Ultimately he went to a catheter. There is a maintenance issue of course with that, but he lives in assisted living, so it's monitored. The best part from his point of view is that he can sleep all night. He's been on it for about a year. I realize it is a last resort, but it is an option.
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PFontes, as you can tell by this post by Captain, and if you've read other posts by Captain, his posts are often vulgar, low class and offensive. I think he posts only for shock value.
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Dear Captain: What an odd and impractical story. My father doesn't go out very often (currently due to the weather) - but he wears pajamas in bed at night and dresses & shaves every morning before breakfast. He has had this routine as an adult man for the majority of his 90 years - just because he's "less firm" due to his advanced age, does not mean his dignity is not intact. Asking him to lay in bed naked because he isn't "going anywhere" and it's easier to deal with his wetting himself is cruel and disrespectful.

If this is how "masonry customer" dealt with her husband - I shudder to think what else the poor man went through.
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Khalter - thank you! I'm gonna buy a box of those & we will see what Papa thinks....hoping we can get him as comfortable as possible soon.
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i just met a gal " masonry customer " who is a little outside the box like myself . her 75 yr old husband died about 1/2 a year ago . she left him naked in bed for the most part and had much less redundancy and indeed it kept him high and dry .
he wasnt going anywhere , there was nothing to dress up for .
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Im glad you went to Northshore Thats where I get my overnite diapers.
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assandache - funny you should mention tranquilty - I just ordered a small box from Northshore - I'll let you know if they work for us. I usually order Molicare (they have come the closest so far).
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Garden Artist....He's all over limiting the fluid consumption and is especially careful from 5 pm onward - to the point that I get on him because I worry about dehydration. But I will say that he's sensible about limiting his liquids and always have several bottles of Gatorade in the fridge for his "between meals" thirst quencher (also juice & water).

The problem is his prostate. The pills he takes nightly do help quite a bit, but we're not going to be able to reduce that back to a place where incontinence is going to go away.
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We use Tranquility premium overnight pull up briefs.. Order on Amazon.. They hold a lot of liquid..
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I read your post this morning but had nothing to suggest. Then the mail came this afternoon. My moms mail comes to my home now - there was one of those catalogs taylored to an older population with all kinds of things -both ingenious and bizarre - aimed to help. And there it was - a product designed for Pop's problem. The product is called Wellness Brief. Disposable and both pull-up and tab style. A little spendy but if you only use it at night...The catalog is called Gold Violin. You might try googleing the product name to see if different places offer different prices.
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Not specific to your question, and I suspect you've already thought of this, but could he eat earlier, decrease his fluid consumption as bedtime approaches, with the goal of minimizing urine production overnight?
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For my 90 year old mom we use the pull ups but at night add a heavy duty, extra long liner pad (it's unisex) that can be purchased in bulk at both Sam's Club and Costco.
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I really don't have any experience to offer but just wanted to say that it's good to see you back again. You have been missed.
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