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To think peeing in the shower is fine?

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Missingsocks · 17/08/2018 19:54

Dh thinks it's disgusting. I think it's fine.

The warm water makes me need a wee and I'm not going to get out, soak the floor, dry off and all that.

It's environmentally friendly as less toilet flushing

The water washes the wee away and it's only wee

I thought everyone did it occasionally.

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Mummyoflittledragon · 17/08/2018 20:57

PinkCircle
I imagine that’s because your ds’s weren’t washing off the wee. They can aim and splash it everywhere. We women don’t have that problem as It trickles down our legs. I never used to wee in the shower but the midwife recommended doing so for comfort after my episiotomy. I really see no difference between that and period blood. I used to get a lot of large clots, which needed chasing off the shower tray and down the plug hole.

Loonoon · 17/08/2018 21:07

I used to really struggle keeping the shower curtain clean and was very happy to move to a property with glass screens instead. It was only years later it occurred to me I could have put the shower curtains in the machine or even bought new ones occasionally.

HicDraconis · 17/08/2018 21:07

I go before I get in the shower. Every time. And yet as soon as I’m standing under warm water even 5 seconds later, I have to go again. So I do - it’s all washed away and down the drain in seconds. Nothing wrong with peeing in the shower. I’m usually washing off god knows what else, a bit of sterile wee is harmless!

TheDowagerCuntess · 17/08/2018 21:13

What do you freaks who don't pee in the shower do about your menstrual blood when you're showering? Just curious!

@youokhon - use sanpro...? So, in the same way I contain menstrual blood when I'm walking around the house clothed, at work, going about my daily business, etc.

Why? What do you do, dare I ask?

PinguDance · 17/08/2018 21:16

I never wear tampons so will get period blood on my leg sometimes in the shower - guess what, I wash it off!

Charolais · 17/08/2018 21:27

We have huge walk-in showers. All but one have doors, the one without a door has a fabric shower curtain. The shower is so big and shaped that I don’t get water on the shower curtain when I shower but I notice my husband and son manage to, but then just a bit. I launder the curtain about once a week and it never stinks or looks grotty. I prefer it than the big doors because it is in fact easier to keep clean. I’m sure it would get grotty in a smaller shower.

I think pee splashing up the side of the cubicle is another thing that doesn’t happen in bigger shower. I had the showers made so big so two people have lots of room and disable people have plenty of room for a wheelchair and bench.

HicDraconis · 17/08/2018 21:28

@TheDowagerCuntess What about people who can’t use tampons or cups? Pads are fine when fully clothed but useless in the shower. It all gets washed off along with the soap suds!

Coffeeisnecessary · 17/08/2018 21:33

They say there are two types of people: people who wee in the shower and liars. Smile

TheDowagerCuntess · 17/08/2018 21:35

I never wear tampons so will get period blood on my leg sometimes in the shower - guess what, I wash it off!

That's fine - but it's not like it's some great mystery as to why many women wouldn't leak period blood but the shower !

They say there are two types of people: people who wee in the shower and liars.

Why would people who do it, want to lie about it?

If it's as great as you say it is - no need to lie, surely.

QueenDoris · 17/08/2018 21:38

I quite often take a shit in the shower. Usually requires DH's toothbrush to poke it down. Such are the sacrifices of married life. He often wonders why I don't snog him anymore

Charolais · 17/08/2018 21:42

I quite often take a shit in the shower. Usually requires DH's toothbrush to poke it down. Such are the sacrifices of married life. He often wonders why I don't snog him anymore

I do the same thing but with the toilet brush which I wash in the top rack of the dishwasher.

Musereader · 17/08/2018 21:47

Peeing in the shower is fine.

I could not pee after giving birth for two weeks without sitting in the bath and using a shower head spraying cold water to ease the pain caused by pee, and i only had a graze.

I have in fact vomited in the bath during a d&v attack where i only just made it to the loo - the loo is at the foot of the bath and the bucket was downstairs with nobody to get it for me.

Also accidentally shat in the bath, same d&v bug but several hours later was in the shower and trusted a fart - it was gross and horrible and i cried so would not care to repeat but not anywhere in the same league as a pee

QueenDoris · 17/08/2018 21:52

@Charolais

I do the same thing but with the toilet brush which I wash in the top rack of the dishwasher.

Does DH stick it in his mouth every night though?

Rebecca36 · 17/08/2018 21:57

It has never occurred to me to wee in the shower. I always go to the toilet before a shower and thought everyone else did. If I had a weak bladder I suppose I might, at least it would all be washed away.
Strange thread (or is it me).

Lavalamped · 17/08/2018 22:00

It's one of life's small pleasures Grin

Shoxfordian · 17/08/2018 22:00

It's disgusting. I'd hate it if my husband did this.

Missingsocks · 17/08/2018 22:02

I love some of these replies. One about taking a we then a shit then reporting back is the best post ever.

I'm surprised some people actually wear a tampon specially to stop their period blood going down the plug hole.

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QueenDoris · 17/08/2018 22:02

I'd hate it if my husband did this.

Grin he definitely never expels any bodily fluid in the shower

jasminemaya · 17/08/2018 22:03

Why would you get in the shower needing a wee when the toilet is right next to the shower?

User12879923378 · 17/08/2018 22:04

I'm not advocating pooing in the shower (emphatic disclaimer)

But

If you were covered in poo, wee, vomit, blood, engine oil, mayonnaise, mustard or any other gross substance that no one would want to be covered in, you would wash it off in the shower.

I really don't think weeing in the shower is disgusting, even though I don't actually do it myself.

HannahHut · 17/08/2018 22:05

I have never been able to do it! I'm not on the loo so I can't go, no matter how hard I try! 😣

UpstartCrow · 17/08/2018 22:05

Imagine being stuck on a beach after a jellyfish sting watching this row going on when all you need is some piss on your arm to take the sting away.

Missingsocks · 17/08/2018 22:06

The shower makes me need a wee, I suspect an overactive bladder as I need one even if I've just had one, but to be honest I don't see the problem at all.

Nobody has been able to explain why it's so disgusting.

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User12879923378 · 17/08/2018 22:07

I think I tend to automatically go to the loo before I shower. But my cousin wees in the shower (we have had this conversation) and I have used her shower many times and she keeps it perfectly clean.

Missingsocks · 17/08/2018 22:08

User exactly, if you kid pees themselves you'd put them in the shower right?

If they vomited and got in a mess you'd put them in the shower.

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