Which way do you stand in the shower?!

I fear it’s more like a hog roast for me, but this!

The water is hitting the back of my head and going down my back and legs. It isn’t going to reach my tummy button or under my arms.

I turn and lift my armpits to the jet, move my bust… If water and soap and hair sit in any creases, then I end up sore. I need to rinse thoroughly under my bust which can’t happen with my back to the water.

I have POTS too and love a sit down shower!

Same. I rotate many times in the shower!

I hate water on my face, so I do it this way to avoid that.

My shower consists of:

• stand with my back to the shower to wet hair
• turn around to apply shampoo
• turn around to rinse shampoo
• turn around to apply shampoo
• turn around to rinse shampoo
• turn around to apply conditioner, then shower gel and scrub, leg shaving, etc, while conditioner sits
• turn around to rinse conditioner
• done

It has recently occured to me that I don't rotate all the way around - I just twist back and forth. I had to rotate fully the other day and it just felt really weird!

We have a shower with a rainfall head and a "regular" head too. Only used the rainfall once and (due to the face issue) felt like I was being waterboarded! Hated it and have never used it since! Looks pretty though! 😂

Without being rude, Is rotating to do with the size of the person? Or is it down to how powerful the water stream is?
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t be able to wash all over without rotating?

But it just sort of dribbles down the side that's facing away, surely you need to get the actual spray of water on each side of you?

How are pp rinsing all over if you don't rotate?
I start off facing the shower but have it lower and stand a bit farther back if not washing my hair and then rotate.
We now have a shower cubicle, no bath as I have mobility issues and I bought a small plastic stool to put my leg on to make access easier, dh thought I was bonkers but after using it himself he thinks I'm a genius.

I used to face the shower, stopped when heavily pg with dc1 as I kept burning my bump on the mixer bar.

22 years later I still face away from, other than turning round to just since my face off after washing it.

Refitted ensuite with have a rainfall shower with detachable handheld, I don't imagine it will change which way I face though.

Plus shampoo, conditioner etc are on a shelf opposite the shower mixer, so easier to face away and just reach out for them.

I had a rainfall shower in my old house, and a handheld shower head in my current house. I've been here for three years. About a year ago, I was complaining to my friend about the tedium of washing my hair every day, so she (understandably) suggested I don't wash it every day. My view was that I shower every day, therefore my hair gets wet and I wash it too. She looked at me like I was from Mars, and said "Just lower the shower head".
I had no idea! I now wash my hair once or twice a week and my life is so much better. Rainfall showers (and obligatory wet hair) are now a rare treat in hotels for me.

I'm a rotator, always take attachment off to rinse difficult to reach areas...never really thought about this before.🤣

I move around but mostly sideways to the mixer. (If I stand with back to the mixer I am facing large mirror on bathroom wall outside shower and it’s not a pretty sight.)

@Midnightjowel
Yes as long as I pile it on top of my head with a claw clip.
Occasionally I get a bit of spray at the back of my neck if I turn round to rinse my back but nothing major. I have wavy hair that I generally straighten, it frizzes easily so I wouldn't do it if it didn't work.

They usually come with a second attachment with a smaller head.

I take the shower head off and move it depending on where I need more water... too radical?

I face outwards, and take the shower head off if I need to rinse somewhere more directedly (is that a word?) Recently I was speaking to DM who said she never takes the shower head off which I thought downright weird, but then I thought about those rainfall type showers which don't have a removable head. Is it normal then not to take it down to target hair/pits/bits? What do you do?

I have both a rainfall and a detachable. The latter is of the right height that I can wash my body without getting my hair wet. I mostly stand facing the shower but turn around to wash my bum. Use the rainfall to wash my hair.

I was watching a 1970s American cop show recently and noticed that a character had two showers and both times faced the spray leaning with his hands against the wall. Mind you, in one of these showers he was stabbed, so maybe not to be recomended? 🤣

Back to the shower. I panic if water flows over my face!

Theres a meme or reel or something going around at the moment that claims most women have their back to the shower and most men face it. I don't see how this could be true but I'm a woman and I face away so....

Zoggs swimmer’s ear plugs are your friend.

I think it must depend on the type of shower. My ceiling is low so it sprays out at a bit of an angle not downwards. If I didn't rotate like rotisserie chicken then half my body wouldn't get wet! To rinse my hair I stand with my back to it and tip my head backwards. Facing would just be waterboarding myself, or I'd have to plaster my front to the wall and its my head right back to get it to run backwards and not down my front.
Basic shower routine for cleaning body is wet everywhere, step out of the spary or turn it off, soap everywhere then rinse whole body. Rotating or contorting as required to do so effectively.
And def remove the shower head to better rinse lower body.

Back to the shower but I spin around to rinse my front
Don't like getting water in my face . I've also got dodgy ears so protect them with cotton wool and a little vaseline as recommended by an audiologist .

May l slightly digress. I think l was the first person to come out as a “rotator”. 😀 I travel a lot for work and hate it when I’m in an hotel where the shower head is on a rigid pipe (permanently) fixed to the wall. My handstand skills are poor and l do not like to perform gymnast’s tricks in the shower to wash my bits!

Me too 😁

I rotate, then flip on the drench to fully rinse hair.