Hi, im frightened to death to get a shower… i have a shower seat and grab rails on the wall… trouble is after the warm water on me i just cant get out of the chair… i suppose if i sat there a couple of hours id cool down to really quite cold and be able to transfer onto my powerchair maybe… surely to god there must be an easier way than this… to the people who can barely walk can you tell me how is it possible to safely get a shower please? I thought of hubby taking padding off my wheelchair thats normally kept in the carboot and putting me in shower then just wheeling me out still dripping wet in the wheelchair to dry… is getting carers the answer?
Regards Julia
Hi Julia, I can walk but after struggling a bit from a warm shower, I now turn the temperature down to about body heat or cooler. I start off with warm and then turn it down - starting off with cool sort of brings on sudden spasms.
Also, until now I didn’t know that there are shower wheelchairs ( search online) although I’m not sure how it’s possible to wheel the chair over any ‘lip’ on the shower base.
**you can be assessed for a wheeled shower chair. If you ask your doctor to refer you for equipment to the ot. **
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Hi Hank_Dogs thank you for your reply,
the cool shower is a great idea i will be doing that from now on… its so obvious i dont know why i didnt think of that but hey thats just typical of me.
All the best : )
Hi Animali,
Thanks for your reply, i did ask my MS nurse for a wheeled shower chair which she quickly arranged but it was impossible for hubby to push me and im not a heavy person…maybe the wheels were too small… the wet room floor is very uneven which made the experience very scary! Thanks anyway : )
Certainly helps me. I found that if the water is too warm it makes my walking worse and just sort of tires me. Slowly turning down the temp to as cold as is still comfortable/ comfortably bearable makes a big difference for me (haven’t yet managed to get down to ‘cold water swimming’ temperatures!)
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Old rocker,
The wheeled shower chairs, like the wheeled commodes are better if you pull them rather than push them because if you hit a small threshold it’s liable to tip you out of it. I know it’s a poor design fault, but I’ve used them for years in care homes and in the community. Hope you manage to get sorted, you could try a static shower chair instead if it will make you feel safer. Just an idea old rocker.
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Ive managed to bear cooler showers and that has definitely helped! If only id tried them sooner 
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Should have tried the drag backwards out of the shower method that might have worked…sent the wheeled chair back now… would definitely have had me shrieking if nothing else lol… oh everythings so scary with MS constantly falling…oh the bruises!! Thank you so much for your replies they really are very much appreciated.
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Certainly helps me and I’ve remembered that in the days before MRIs , one of the tests for MS was to put the patient in a hot bath and see whether the symptoms got worse!