sitz shower...am i wasting my time? 
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17 y
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i read up on sitz bath and im pretty much part of the mass confusion, altho i think i got the jist of it. i dont have a bathtub that i can soak in for an hour, i read that a sauna might be a good substitute. so i decided to try with a long hot shower, if i can get half the benefits it would be worth it.
so i planed on taking a 30 min shower every night this week, followed with a 10 minutes of the cold water running down the belly button. i had a little heater running in the bathroom also to get it warm in there.
i showered with water as warm as i could stand for almost 25 minutes. at which point i was starting to not feel so well, a bit dizzy and such, so i got out. it was also getting kinda hard to breath with all the steam. then i used the coldest water out of the faucet, which really didnt seem that cold! i sat on the toilet and with a wash cloth had the water go down my belly button for 10 mins.
i have a few questions...
#1 am i wasting my time with this, or is it close enough to get some benefit?
#2 do i finish the hot shower with a cold water?
#3 should i be hot/cold/comfortable while i do the 10 min of cold water?
it might be wishful thinking, it might be luck, or it might be the sitz shower, but my hemroids are definatly better today then they were in the last 3 days.
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- Re: sitz shower...am i wasting my ti... #66354
17 y
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This is a reply to # 925,593Try this instead -
Go buy one of those cheap faucet attachment shower heads (Drug store should have them).
After you've been in a hot bath or shower as long as you can stand, attach the nozzle, and press it right up against your, ahem, anus.
Hold it there for anywhere from 5-10 minutes......(I ran a space heater while doing this, so that the rest of my body wouldn't freeze, but I'm skinny!)
The idea is that the heat loosens everything up, and then the sudden cold draws a rush of warm blood (with toxins) to the exit of your body, and ideally, out of your skin and such. I was amazed that I developed a couple of large hemorrhoids, which MH says is a sign that the toxins are where they're supposed to be, and that they'll eventually go away (which they are).
Anyways, I did this for a while (about a week), and I was fasting at the time, so I don't know what EXACTLY it did, but it certainly wasn't horrible, and couldn't have been bad. I do know that I felt really good afterwards, nice and serene. I stopped because the weather was simply too warm to entertain the idea of a hot bath......
One of the reasons I fasted was for my complexion, and it has certainly improved.
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- Re: sitz shower...am i wasting my ti... ladaka
17 y
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This is a reply to # 925,593If you get dizzy while standing, SIT DOWN. I was on a fast, did a sitz bath and had to get something before I put the cold water on me and I nearly passed out. Took a hard fall on the floor and got a compressed vertebra. I still will do sitz baths, but I learned something.
ladaka - Re: sitz shower...am i wasting my ti... MH 108
17 y
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This is a reply to # 925,593The original sitz used steam and then setting in a tub of cold water on a stool and drawing up a cup of cold water and letting it run down. It would seem you doing as well as the original method. If I was you, I would invest $20 and by a hand held shower head and do it easy.
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- Re: sitz shower...am i wasting my ti... #66354
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