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Posted 10/20/2015 12:58 PM (GMT -5)
I have loved HOT showers for as long as I can remember. So hot I come out looking like a lobster. Now, with lyme, I get in the hot shower and get nauseous and weak feeling. I feel like the wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz that is melting.

I turn the shower to cold and I regain my strength.

It is like Hot water is my kryptonite.

We already have established that I am more than partially crazy. But does anyone else have to deal with cold showers? It is becoming winter and I dread bathing. Here I am doing hippie herbs and now I don't want to shower. Commune here I come!

~Annette
Posted 10/20/2015 1:36 PM (GMT -5)
HI, I have had that happed to me. You are detoxing with the hot water. You would probably feel the same with a hot detox bath.

Try doing warm showers for a while. Once you are sufficiently detoxed, you can have your hot showers back.
Posted 10/20/2015 1:45 PM (GMT -5)
Awww thanks Bear.
Posted 10/20/2015 2:09 PM (GMT -5)
Yep, hot showers always make me weak. The other thing i noticed was a couple of weeks ago I was in FL and in the sun. I developed little blisters all over my arms.

I think that those reactions are the Lyme being unhappy that we are changing it's environment. i generally run a temp of 97 degrees. So when you take hot showers or are in the hot sun, the Lyme reacts and causes these reactions to convince you to stop whatever you are doing. Works pretty well for the shower as you lower the temp of the water. The sun not so much.

Just a theory,
Kim
Posted 10/20/2015 2:32 PM (GMT -5)
http://www.tiredoflyme.com/feeling-worse-after-a-shower-or-bath.html

PeteZa, check this out
Posted 10/20/2015 6:24 PM (GMT -5)
Oh my gosh Sarah this is so me! Thank you for the article.

I automatically have listened to my body and I have turned down the temp of the water and I am the fastest bather in the West.

It is amazing that if you listen to your body it will tell you what you need or don't need.

I am going to trust in myself a little more. I am not crazy and these "quarks" are real for me.
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