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I have never used a hot tub and I bathe in a shower, but last winter after doing a lot of snow shoveling, I decided to fill my big clawfoot tub and take a soak to soothe heavily-used muscles. I soaked for a good long while and noticed that I voided a lot. It was not something I could control or stop, not that the two are out of the ordinary, but it seemed like very heavy voiding during the time I was in the water and made me wonder if any here have experienced the same thing in a tub or how they control it or if that is the reason to avoid hot tubs. While I am sure the hot water and the reclining position contributed to the heavy voiding, I don't know if after all of that exercise I would have wet just as heavily if diapered up on dry land. Anyway, I guess I will not be doing hot tubbing.
Thanks,
Tom

I use mine fairly regularly, 2 X's a week, and have never had a problem with my urgency problem. I make sure I go before I get in, and it is always at night when I use it, and if I do have to go I just go overboard if need be, secluded back yard, and no one would ever see anyhow, but has only been the occurrance 1-2 times in over 5 years... I know I have to go before I do, and that really helps in this type of situation, I don't freely just go, if that were so I would not have a hottub for sure. It would be frequent water changing if that were the case! Puffy

I can can rarely feel when I need to go. I try to go before I get into a pool, jacuzzi or hot tub. If I can't I self-cath if it has been more than a couple hours since my bladder emptied. So far i have not noticed any serious leaking while in the water.

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I can@t say I have ever fancied the HOT Tub idea -what with a tank of water that isn't changed than much. Then again, climbing in and out would be harder for me what with the wheelchair and all! I'll stick with my roll-in shower!

Meanwhile, I don't have any idea when I will 'go' so that would be just one more reason to stay out of hot tabs. Swimming pools are not so bad as the water is treated and so on.

I believe hot tubs are treated with Bromine. I know they are treated witha chemical to neutralize algae adn bacteria, I'm just not sure what it is.

Whenever I'm in the hot water, it usually triggers a wetting episode. I think its just that state of relaxation. It relaxes my bladder and causes me to wet. Whether I'm in the hot tub or bath or shower. I can't help it. I try to urinate before I get in the hot tub so its not an issue. But if it happens, thats what chemicals are for. Just don't drink the water. People do some nasty things in hot tubs. Just thinking about it makes me not want to get in.

I learned in life guard school that everyone has fecal matter on the bottoms. Everyone. It is just residual that doesn't come off with toilet paper. So don't drink the water. Pool water is pretty nasty. Thats why we have chemicals.

Yes, the water is treated, but still... I don't go in the one at the public pool, I figure if you add a few potatoes and carrots, you could have stew... it is that nasty. It is much different when it is yours, and you know who has been in it, and when the water was last changed and all. I use chlorine in mine, easier to maintain then bromine, does the same job either way, Puffy