Even a hot shower wipes me out. I woudn't be able to move with a hot bath. The problem is that I love hot water. My solution is to take long hot nongreen showers with frequent bursts of tepid water before I get too hot. I also make sure that I am not hot at the end. Hot baths and MG allegedly do not work together.

I haven't been in a hot tub or bath to try yet, but from what I can tell based on my hot showers over time, you would be correct in saying that for the majority of folks with generalised MG especially, it is not a good idea. In remission is another story...

I am willing to try it though. At least for a bit to see what I could do and then get out. Get back in and time myself with a trial etc. Everything is enhanced with Myasthenics. After a hot tub or hot bath our bodies are relaxed anyway, so keep that in mind for MG as a muscle relaxant. We don't get along so well in general. Just like when we get up, our muscles take a bit to wake up also, but it is enhanced because of MG. A Hot Tub, or hot bath is a luxury in life and we should be allowed luxuries. I don't really hold back anymore in my showers for amount of exposure time under the hot water etc, and it also is just better when I am stronger. It really has gotten to be a thing I don't concern myself with anymore in regards to my MG. I am a little over one year after Dx. For future reference, and anyone with MG that wishes to do these things, make sure you be very careful, maybe have someone around, and are at max strength and timing with your mestinon, if applicable.

Hope that helps,

TJ

This reminds me that exercise is important with this condition. I know how relaxed my muscles feel most of the time with this condition. After I stimulate them, if even a little, I am doing better to get my day going. In other words, my better days are usually when I am more active and/or exercising.

I must admit that although I can tolerate short warm baths in the summer pretending it is beach water and the sun is shining, that just doesn't work in the winter. So I start with warm water and then run it hot until I get out. That way there is always some warmer water to splash on. Baths have to be rather short. I have a big clawfoot tub, 1935 vintage ( the house is older) and it is much easier to get in and out because of the high, rolled sides. My father, whose MG was more severe, wanted to take it home. b

I too cannot take a hot bath. I get so weak I can't get up at all. I scared my husband so bad, that we both agreed I wouldn't take baths anymore. I only do showers now. Like a couple have mentioned, start with warm, go to hot and end in very lukewarm water.

Same here. A hot bath? Wouldn't even be able to get out.
Nope - can't take a hot shower, either.
(Sounds like a great additional diagnostic tool, for MG.)

An MG hot tub?
Sounds better than a poke in the eye huh? Great idea!

I used to love hot showers, now I take warm showers. I usually run the shower full hot before I get in and get some steam going, then turn down the heat to warm and get the shower done. Yesterday was a new experience for me. I've been battling a cold/sinus infection/cough, it hasn't taken hold but seems to have been threatening me for the last week at least. I noticed when I first got out of bed that it was hard to get a deep breath. I took my shower and felt I was suffocating. All day I felt this way, by evening it was better. Today is better too.

As far as being diagnostic for mg, I know everytime I get hot, whether from the shower or from a house or store that is too warm, or from the sun (see cooling vest :-), I wilt. I spend a lot of time every morning thinking about where I will be that day and deciding what kind of layers to wear.
Cathi

Gosh, I dream about a long hot bath but wouldn't dare attempt it. I take only warm showers and end with a cool rinse. (I know, brrr!)
Now that we are in too colder weather, I will turn the heater on in the bathroom but then turn it off as soon as I can get my robe on. Heat wilts me quickly. Sometimes a hot blow dryer will make my eyes close.

I think I triggered my MG with a day at a Russian bania in Brooklyn. I enjoyed a very hot, very relaxing day in the steam and saunas, but three days later I was seeing double.

I used to relish that loosey-goosey feeling I got after a sauna or a steam, but now when I feel it, it just reminds me that I need to take a mestinon.

Joe, You remind me of my going to the steam room after swimming and wondering why I was having so many visual problems driving home. Sheesh, just another one to put on my list of things I did not think to associate with MG. Actually the visual problems were so bad, I haven't been doing that kind of swimming in years, chalked it up to chlorine and maybe chlorine was part of the problem. b.

I LOVE long, hot baths, and I take one EVERY SINGLE DAY. My hot water heater is set on high and I use just enough cold so as not to scald myself. I soak for half an hour every morning before work and an hour on weekends. This past weekend, I had the additional luxury of a jacuzzi. Combined with the hot water, it was a wonderful hour of renewal.

Like Beth, I have an old claw foot tub from 1926 and I love the luxury of meditating or devising multivariate simultaneous equation models while I soak. I do some of my best thinking in the tub and it breaks mental blocks while I cogitate on econometric models, public finance or health care financing.

Like all the responses here, I COULD NOT tolerate a hot bath before I met Mr. P (prednisone). Massive doses of prednisone freed me of almost all MG symptoms, including the inability to tolerate hot baths.

Curt

I have a gaquzy tube in my R.V. which I live in and I sometimes have a very hard time getting out so if you are going to take a bath make a warm one not hot.. I have also found that putting the shower on while I let the water out helps