Baths.

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Right i really like having baths or at least i think i do. I don't have baths at college cos we only have a shower in our house. When i come home i like to have a bath from time to time, but i always find after a little while i get a pounding headache and feel really faint and have to get out of my bath and lie down on the floor for bit, this interruption happens about three times over the course of my bath every time and is very annoying especially when trying to wash my hair. Any ideas how to stop this happening and to continue enjoying my baths? Does this happen to anyone else?

Reply 1

loopymeg

13

Is the water too hot for you?

Reply 2

Dionysus

15

You might want to talk to a doctor, because I'm fairly sure that's not meant to happen.

Reply 3

nousernames

I get the same. I find it helps to have colder baths, but generally they have to be too cold, which isn't much fun either :s-smilie:

! 'Fraid I don't have any other suggestions.

Reply 4

neomayemer

Do you get the headache after you stand up? if so you may be like me and just have a low blood pressure just pop to your gp and ask them to do it even a pharmacist may be able to. I get a headache and loose vision temporarily after standing up after being in heat wierd but its just my blood pressure im told.

Reply 5

ASprinkleOfPixieDust

I get it too-I also have low blood pressure, it's just because you get so hot in the bath so the only way to sort it out really is to have colder baths.

Reply 6

Warrior King

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hippieglitter

Right i really like having baths or at least i think i do. I don't have baths at college cos we only have a shower in our house. When i come home i like to have a bath from time to time, but i always find after a little while i get a pounding headache and feel really faint and have to get out of my bath and lie down on the floor for bit, this interruption happens about three times over the course of my bath every time and is very annoying especially when trying to wash my hair. Any ideas how to stop this happening and to continue enjoying my baths? Does this happen to anyone else?

I'm not saying that this is the case but it could be that you're getting dehydrated because of the hot temperature of the bath water and this could be recitified by drinking a glass of water perhaps?

If that doesn't help then I suggest you speak to a doctor. I sometimes feel really dizzy/dehydrated when I come out of a hot bath or shower and take a glass of water afterwards.

Reply 7

strawberry_wise

13

I get this sometimes if my bath is too hot, just run the cold tap for a while.

Also keep the window ajar while you're in the bath so that the steam doesn't build up in the room!

Reply 8

hippieglitter

OP

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It can't be my blood pressure, i had it checked recently when i go
t my implant and they said it was fine. I'll try using colder water next time. Thanks everyone.

Reply 9

neomayemer

Low is fine isnt it?

Reply 10

ASprinkleOfPixieDust

neomayemer

Low is fine isnt it?

Well it's better than high blood pressure (increased risk of stroke and heart attack) but I used to black out a lot-which is not fun and highly embarassing in public just suddenly fainting.

Reply 11

Wind Guru

8

I also get that when the water's too hot for me, sometimes it's made me incredibly dizzy!

Is low blood pressure something to check up on? I don't really know much about it

Reply 12

Sarah-Lou

happens to me all the time when i have hot baths!! i dont like having colder baths though :s-smilie:

so i just avoid baths altogether! showers are cleaner anyway i think :smile:

xxx

Reply 13

neomayemer

Low blood pressures fine my GP mum said but as anyone who has a GP as a parent will know they will never believe anythings wrong with you til your bleding out of your eyeballs.

i have a low blood pressure but have never fainted in my life so maybe im not as bad as the poster above

Reply 14

h82think

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hippieglitter

Right i really like having baths or at least i think i do. I don't have baths at college cos we only have a shower in our house. When i come home i like to have a bath from time to time, but i always find after a little while i get a pounding headache and feel really faint and have to get out of my bath and lie down on the floor for bit, this interruption happens about three times over the course of my bath every time and is very annoying especially when trying to wash my hair. Any ideas how to stop this happening and to continue enjoying my baths? Does this happen to anyone else?

lack of fresh air?

Reply 15

neomayemer

h82think

lack of fresh air?

take a snorkel for bath time then? :wink:

Reply 16

lasttoiletroll

colder water and open the window

Reply 17

tetrahydrocannabinol.

10

I get it with either baths or showers, but more so with showers, and the hotter the water is, the worse it gets. I have low blood pressure, so I'm sure that's what causes mine. It's horrible, I get completely out of breath and feel like I'm about to pass out. Sometimes it all goes black, even though I'm stood up and conscious, and then weird shapes appear before my eyes, then they disperse. It's really odd. I should probably go see a doc, and you probably should too OP :smile:

Reply 18

neomayemer

chloe-libertine

I get it with either baths or showers, but more so with showers, and the hotter the water is, the worse it gets. I have low blood pressure, so I'm sure that's what causes mine. It's horrible, I get completely out of breath and feel like I'm about to pass out. Sometimes it all goes black, even though I'm stood up and conscious, and then weird shapes appear before my eyes, then they disperse. It's really odd. I should probably go see a doc, and you probably should too OP :smile:

Exactly that and im fairly sure its nothing to worry about

Reply 19

tetrahydrocannabinol.

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neomayemer

Exactly that and im fairly sure its nothing to worry about

It's weird as hell, isn't it? Out of interest, would you call yourself 'unfit'? I'm not overweight, but I smoke and I get out of breath SO easily! One flight of stairs has me panting! Although I've always been like that, from the age of 8 when we had to climb up stairs to get back to our classroom from the playground, and I'd get completely knackered out halfway through. Weird. So yeah, sorry to divulge but would you consider yourself unfit?

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