First Off..i never shower...just cannot stand there long enough...i do bath everyday...but am always very tired...drained...my house is a mess or supper does not get cooked....alot of times I am in bed asleep when my beautiful husband comes home from work...the only REAL reason I DO force the baths everyday is because it takes so much of my pain away...I cannot tolerate the pain meds they offered me...made me sick to my stomach...and plugged me up...so I have done all I can to find ways to deal with the pain...but the muscle fatigue...yea, i have not found the answers to that yet...just started PT today...I have HOPE that it will help me gain enuff endurance so I can at least keep up with some of the smaller things ,so the bigger things do not completely take me over...

Bonnie

First of all, I am GLAD you are ok. My father passed because of what happened to you.

Oh oh oh! This is a constant problem for me. When I take a shower I am exhausted afterwards. I'm sorry, I have no good advise, but I do share your frustration. Sometimes though, I do just take a bath, it's easier for me to be able to sit and get clean

Sometimes I go through phases when I just do not have the energy to be able to shower or bathe and I "shhhhhh" shower every other day. Oops there, I said it out loud.

I know how you feel,But I do shower every day,sometimes I feel like I'm going to faint when I'm in there,I cant stand to take baths,I just get creeped out by washing my bady with water my butt is sitting in.

welll GEEEZ !!...did ya HAFTA say it like THAT!!!
not like those of us who BATHE don't rinse with clear clean WATER...GAWD...!!

Now tomorrow morning when I crawl my happy ASS into the TUB...I will have THAT thought on my brain TYVM!!

lol...ok maybe not

well ill gross you out more ever fart in bath. i shower but use a shower stool .and once in while if not getting out i might skip a day.

Okay, not meaning to be rude, crude or socially unacceptable, but my grandma used to always recommend a PTA...you can guess the p and the t, the a is for armpitts...lol. When you just can't muster the energy, it will at least help you to feel somewhat refreshed. I know they also have non-rinse type soap products...they sent some home with my mother after a stay in the hospital...those were very helpful when she needed assistance.

I have days when i don't have thye energy to shower and i have recently had a rail fitted in my bathroom and have been given a removable seat that goes in my bath so that i can sit and have a shower and then use the rail to lift myself back up, The Seat is also great for getting in and out the bath as my musscles seem to relax to much in the bath and i cant get back out, lol. Does anyone else find their musscles really ache after they have a bath?

I know exactly what you all are saying, I find myself putting off showering for a day or more depending on what is going on or how presentable I need to be, lol. so far nobody has complained about me stinking. (thank goodness!) lol. seriously, if I haven't done much during the day and hardly been out of my pj's I don't find it necessary to exhaust myself any further by taking a bath or shower, i just run a comb through my hair, throw on what makeup makes me look a little more presentable to my hubby and go. most people I have talked to with fibro has basically told me the same thing.

I shower every other day, my shower is in the bath, getting into the bath is a chore some days. I know exactly what you are saying. Don't be too hard on yourself. I am so glad that you didnt die. How painful that must have been to have clot on your lungs. Praise God, He must have saved you because He wants you to be His.

I would definitely recommend a shower chair or stool. I have had many times when I thought I would just collapse before I finished. And then I could barely muster the strength to dry off. I would throw a towel on my bed and sit down to dry off. I think I hate the fatigue even more than the pain.

I do not shower every day either I have pretty dry skin, and it just gets worse if I shower every day.I am for a bath or shower every other day. If I don't do much and I don't get all that dirty. I have found that I am pretty careful about when I take a sower, I find now that I shower when my husband is home, so if I get in trouble he is there to help me out. I do like to soak in hot baths too. I have a shower chair, it does help cut down on the fatique.

Sorry msboni did'nt mean to gross you out,but remember to face your face first....lol. and Granny you crack me up...FARTING in the tub now that is icky..lol((((((HUGS))))

Wow, that sounds very serious. I hope that they've remedied the problem and you are on your way to recovery.

I have written about this before...too tired to shower. I can't sit in the bathtub because it hurts my back and I start getting too cold on my shoulders. There's nothing wrong with skipping a day anyway.

When I first started getting FMS symptoms, I'd say, oh I'm so busy...I got up, had a shower....and then stop! I did nothing else! I knew I had a problem then.

I find once I'm in the shower, I don't mind it. I hate getting out as I'm all blotchy, itchy and the towel bugs me.

I'm lucky that my house was made for someone in a wheelchair so have bars on my one bathtub and have a roll-in shower for the other one. I don't go in this one that often as I'd have to go down stairs and it doesn't have the shower handle.

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P.S. Granny you crack me up!!!!!