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Posted 11/14/2013 8:01 AM (GMT 0)
does anyone have similar problem?please share some experience~~

i don't know the cause of this,but my symptons are:

1.before shower i always go to toliet to get rid of all the feces from body,or else i would feel like go to toilet during middle of shower.

2.generally just afraid of going to take shower or bath all the time,shaking even thinking about it.

3.after shower i feel terrible for entire day,bowl movement happens very frequent.

Post Edited (Solomon1234) : 11/14/2013 12:40:16 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 11/14/2013 11:51 AM (GMT 0)
I love showers and baths. If I feel an urge I just get out of the shower and go to the toilet. It is the closest I will ever be to a toilet when having an urge so that is a good thing.

Is your shower heated? because if it wasn't I may feel the same way. Have you always done this? When did it start? Does it happen anywhere? If you just stand in the shower with no water do you freak out? If you showered at night would you still feel horrible the next day?
Posted 11/14/2013 1:03 PM (GMT 0)
I hate to say this but it may be more mental than physical due to anxiety such as many of us have anxiety about being in a car. Surely you can figure out how to take a bath or shower. I have seen many report that they feel better while being in a pool swimming. That always made me wonder.
Posted 11/14/2013 3:05 PM (GMT 0)
Look into Cognitive behavioural Therapy. Your thoughts are causing the connection to the shower.

Are you on any UC medications? if so...which ones?

q
Posted 11/14/2013 3:06 PM (GMT 0)

Dr-A said...
I love showers and baths. If I feel an urge I just get out of the shower and go to the toilet. It is the closest I will ever be to a toilet when having an urge so that is a good thing.

Is your shower heated? because if it wasn't I may feel the same way. Have you always done this? When did it start? Does it happen anywhere? If you just stand in the shower with no water do you freak out? If you showered at night would you still feel horrible the next day?

If you mean hot water yes its heated.

It starts long ago,when i realize i had IBD.

Yes after taking shower it happen anywhere even in bed.Its not about where i stand,but just to think about it always makes me shaking.

If i shower at night,then i would surely have insomnia,thats why i always shower at day,but that bothers me the other way(no insomnia but whole day feeling sick).
Posted 11/14/2013 3:09 PM (GMT 0)

garylouisville said...
I hate to say this but it may be more mental than physical due to anxiety such as many of us have anxiety about being in a car. Surely you can figure out how to take a bath or shower. I have seen many report that they feel better while being in a pool swimming. That always made me wonder.

I think atleast feels like having bowl movement at middle of shower might not be just mental.
Posted 11/14/2013 3:11 PM (GMT 0)
by the way,i also have Hemorrhoid and anal fissure,i don't know if thats what causing the problem.
Posted 11/14/2013 3:12 PM (GMT 0)

quincy said...
Look into Cognitive behavioural Therapy. Your thoughts are causing the connection to the shower.

Are you on any UC medications? if so...which ones?

q

I usually takes Mesalamine.
Posted 11/14/2013 3:13 PM (GMT 0)
ok, how much, which ones and are they oral and rectal?

are you on meds for the fissure/hemmie?

q

Posted 11/14/2013 3:19 PM (GMT 0)
Solomon, I don't know if this is similar, but when I was flaring the warm water of the shower always seemed to relax me and make me feel like I had to go. I've always used a technique of thinking "what's the worst thing that could happen" about my worries. To me, the worst thing was that I could have an accident in the shower. Then what would happen? The stool would be washed down the drain just as it is in the toilet. Then I could just pour some bleach on the shower floor to disinfect it and go on. Not so bad.

BTW, this never happened to me. As someone else said, I'd just step out of the shower and go use the toilet when I really needed to.

Hope something here helps you.

Posted 11/14/2013 3:49 PM (GMT 0)
Does it hurt when you have BMs? I could see why you would be shaking then. If you started taking multiple baths/showers daily then you might get over it. Baths were the only way I could get flare waves to stop when I was having 15+ BMs a day. You make it sound like you are barely bathing yourself at all right now. With UC, I think we probably need to bath more, not less.
I've also crapped in the shower when I was flaring...it was no big deal. I was tired of getting out to use the RR so I just did it. I had no energy and it was starting to hurt wiping and sitting on the toilet.
It was so runny it mostly washed down. I used paper towels and cleaner afterwards to get the rest.

Having UC, almost nothing is too gross with regards to BMs...
Posted 11/14/2013 4:28 PM (GMT 0)

Judy2 said...
Solomon, I don't know if this is similar, but when I was flaring the warm water of the shower always seemed to relax me and make me feel like I had to go. I've always used a technique of thinking "what's the worst thing that could happen" about my worries. To me, the worst thing was that I could have an accident in the shower. Then what would happen? The stool would be washed down the drain just as it is in the toilet. Then I could just pour some bleach on the shower floor to disinfect it and go on. Not so bad.
BTW, this never happened to me. As someone else said, I'd just step out of the shower and go use the toilet when I really needed to.

Hope something here helps you.

Thank you Judy,thinking this way may definitely solve some problem,atleast mentally.
Posted 11/14/2013 4:32 PM (GMT 0)

Adventureuc said...
Does it hurt when you have BMs? I could see why you would be shaking then. If you started taking multiple baths/showers daily then you might get over it. Baths were the only way I could get flare waves to stop when I was having 15+ BMs a day. You make it sound like you are barely bathing yourself at all right now. With UC, I think we probably need to bath more, not less.
I've also crapped in the shower when I was flaring...it was no big deal. I was tired of getting out to use the RR so I just did it. I had no energy and it was starting to hurt wiping and sitting on the toilet.
It was so runny it mostly washed down. I used paper towels and cleaner afterwards to get the rest.

Having UC, almost nothing is too gross with regards to BMs...

I feels so bad to hear that you are have 15+BMs a day :( although mine wasn't better at all when flare comes....

I'll start take shower more to see if i can't get over with this fearness.
Posted 11/14/2013 5:09 PM (GMT 0)
When I'm in a flare, I unfortunately end up taking lots of showers due to urgency issues, if you know what I mean.... :-( Don't think I've ever had an accident in the shower, but I wouldn't be so bad if it did happen. Easy clean-up.

I have more of a fear of getting to a public restroom and seeing a line. That'll make you break out in a cold sweat....
Posted 11/14/2013 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
That's a good point JJ. When I was at my worst I had two or three accidents that were so bad I had to go in the shower to clean myself up.
Posted 11/14/2013 6:56 PM (GMT 0)
I get that sensation when thinking of taking car trips. If I am by myself it is better because I just put a trash bag in the car and some toilet paper and think the worse that happens is I pull over put the bag under me pull the pants down and go in my car. Helps with some of the anxiety. I got in the shower last week about the same time my wife came in to pee and chit chat. Of course with her there the little bit of urge I had to go turned into a bigger one and I told her to get out I gotta go, lol. My mind plays lots of tricks on me.
Posted 11/15/2013 1:56 AM (GMT 0)
My BM's and urgency isn't so severe since I started Humira, but I dread showering due to hair loss and skin sensitivity from meds. I'm not sure which medication is causing it, though. Possibly the anemia? Anyone else have these problems? (Showering exhausts me as well, by the way. By the time I'm ready, I don't even want to go where I was headed.)
Posted 11/15/2013 3:17 AM (GMT 0)
I tell you what solo man, I've crapped myself in a few different places during my relationship with uc = in bed, in my car, in my garage, etc. ---- but the best place of all is THE SHOWER ! just let er rip and down she goes -

hope things get better soon -
Posted 11/15/2013 11:10 AM (GMT 0)
Is it just me or is the shower the least problematic place to go.. ? Agreed with the above "go for it".
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