Hey Erin,
 

Congrats on the new jacuzzi tub! I am happy for you! :icon_razz:

I think that an infection/virus/bacteria/sickness, which leads to an increase in body temp . . . WILL affect inflammation, especially if we have spinal lesions. I ALWAYS treat a fever with reducers, then try to figure out the source of the increase to treat the underlying cause.

Hot water doesn't bother me in the longer run, but I don't like some of the s/t symptoms it brings on; body fatigue, lack of coordination, buzzing sensations, sleepiness. Those sensations are much less troublesome then what I get from being cold though, so I often take a hot shower to "warm up my bones". I don't do hot tubs any more though. :(

Cherie

The room is almost finished. The tub is all done, still have to wait for the sealant to dry. (cant use the tub till tuesday)

We're just waiting on the toilet that will be a matching color to the tub and tile, and the exciting part about the toilet, is that it's the kind that can suck down a bucket of ping pong balls. (just the balls, not the bucket)

I have pictures of what it looks like now with the bright white toilet with almond colored tub, tile and sink...but the room looks great. We just need to do some re-painting on the walls. The people who did all the work were amazingly careful with not screwing up the paintjob on the walls.

Even the nutjob who installed the tub was careful...he was nuts, because he would freak if we looked at him. He claimed that if we watched him, he'd hurt himself...and he didnt want to do that, so we couldnt watch him work. He was really insane.

Well I'm one of those that will go ahead and take a hot bath or shower and deal with what happens!!!! I know the worst that will happen to me will be some severe exhaustion. If I knew I would have problems with my eyes, I would not do it. So what I do is leave the bathroom door open so the bathroom doens't get as hot. I know that would be difficult for a lot of you. I also immmedialtely go sit under a ceiling fan/ac or somewhere cool until I recover. Sometimes that may be 10 minutes or maybe an hour. But I usually take a bath while am at home and I don't care that all I have on is a light gown. I have an old recliner in the living room that I have sat in quite often while I am still a little wet.

As far as a hot tub, we went to Gatlinburgh one time in October and I enjoyed the outdoor hottub at the hotel at midnight. The hot tub was hot but the air was quite cool. My sister has a hot tub spa room with windows that she cranks open in the winter. So I get in it with her only in the late fall and winter.

When I went to South Dakota last April, the hotel my boyfriend and I stayed in had a really nice hot tub. I was able to get in it and sit in water up to my neck and it didnt really bug me much except that I'd get a little fuzzy vision in my left eye. I do think that's my last time in a public swimming pool or hot tub tho. I think I got something icky from either the hot tub (swimming in primordial ooze, or epithelial cell soup) or from the swimming pool. (Water was cloudy, and overly chlorinated)

Now I dont get the fuzzy vision in the left eye. I get mildly distorted vision in the right eye. I can deal with a little cloudy vision more than I can with exhaustion or massively horrible numbness.