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Originally Posted by dahlek (Post 206568)

because my balance is so bad and my strength not enough to get me OUT of the tub...

WHERE IS THE FORKLIFT?

Nuff said. - j

I want to take a bubble bath! - j

PS Aussie, good find.

Joan,

Forklift?
:D:D:D

Too funny!!

Kathi, my dream is endless pool too, my hubby is constrcution supervisor so the concrete work etc, would be minimal. The problem is re just refi'd the house to put the kids in a mobile home, that there was my pool money. But the kids are outa my home (all 6 of them) and less stress for me. My dream will continue, one day I will have my pool, the spa shop here has a model that is encased like a hot tub, one end is hot tub, the other exercise area, divided by plexiglass if you desire with two temp controls. I drool over that, but in the meantime I have PT working with me and it truly is the only 30 minutes of the day I am pain free. I love the water, and maybe just maybe I'll win a 20,000 lottery to get my own pool!!!! I wish everyone a minimal pain day!
Janna

If I was rich I would have one of those jacuzzi pools. My gramps has one oh amazing. I hate regular tubs and am suppose to be doing epsom salt baths everyday. I hate getting in and out and even sitting is hurting my back. I keep saying I will try pool therapy again but don't. They pushed me too hard at cleveland so I have that in the back of my mind. I need a real low key start.
Kathi the pool therapy you do is it by yourself or with a therapist?

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Originally Posted by Silverlady (Post 203445)

This article is so true I believe! For many years I suffered from the dreaded and much discussed Fibromyalgia. Many years. I was tested out the kazoo, and that was the diagnosis. We now know I had the beginnings of sero-negative Sjogrens and sero-negative (proven with xrays instead) rheumatoid arthritis. The rheumatoid is now showing up in my bloodwork whenever we decrease my medicine. I'm now 4 years (or more, who knows) into the Sjogren's and it sometimes takes 7 years or more to show up in bloodwork.....I'm getting off the original subject. Happens everytime I post after I've taken the nightime meds.

Water..hot moving water...is so good for the fibro type pain. I tried a friend's hot tub once. Had to be coaxed into it, but loved it, loved it and slept like a baby that night. So we had the master bath remodeled and put a smaller version (but not too small) of the hot tub put in. Size was not my choice, it was a remodel remember. It was larger than the standard tubs now and it has 4 jets. But I used it like a bathtub. And I slept like a baby the first time I used it. Sometimes went to sleep in the tub. Before the tub, I slept maybe an hour a night and sometimes not at all. I had to quit using it after the knee surgery. I can no longer bend enough to get up and down in the tub. I look at that tub on days like today. (I haven't been warm the whole day) And I long for that thing.

If you can afford this I urge you to do it. I think you will think it's money well spent. Our medical insurance paid for mine. The doctor wrote a letter of medical necessity stating that I needed continous whirlpool therapy and this tub would fill that requirement. Just wish I could get them to pay for one of those that you walk into and sit down. Probably would be as good as one that lets you lie down with a tub pillow on your head.

Billye

Have you looked into that new tub? It's a walk-in model. They advertise it for the elderly and others that have difficulty getting in and out of a regular tub. It has 'hydro jets' as well.

http://www.independentlivingusa.com/OnlineShowroom.html

http://www.independentlivingusa.com/...theModels.html

No, I haven't looked at the new tub. I have seen a few advertisements, but after the episodes of serious infections found in nail salon whirlpool pedicure chairs, I didn't look anymore at them. I could just see all kind of bacterial infections lurking there. Also, I had frequent bladder infections for years. Once I quit taking tub baths, the infections stopped. I have since found out there is a birth defect in the uretha which makes it too short and it's a breeding ground for infections. (More info than you wanted to know I'm sure)

So as much as the tub comforted me, it also caused me problems. And my immune system is so compromised, that I'm not taking any chances. But thank you for thinking of them. They are probably o.k. for most folks.

Billye