What's the longest you've gone without a shower/bath. Why?
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Couldn’t eat anything. Story below.
Wow, thanks for sharing that story. What were nights like? Were you able to sleep? Did any animal interact with you?
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Two weeks while backpacking in New Mexico (unless you count getting rained on every day as a shower)
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Maybe three days? I can’t stand not showering.
I don't think I've gone beyond 4 I feel the same way.
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Wow, thanks for sharing that story. What were nights like? Were you able to sleep? Did any animal interact with you?
The nights were cold. It was the end of winter, there was snow further up the mountain, but not where I was. I dug down into leaves so I was half buried most of the time. I talked and sang to magpies, there were other animals around. I think I slept a lot of the time, they said I was feverish and in some kind of shock from the broken ankles. Later on I thought it had only been a few days.
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Two weeks while backpacking in New Mexico (unless you count getting rained on every day as a shower)
Regularly being washed by rain is certainly different from not showering at all for two weeks
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The nights were cold. It was the end of winter, there was snow further up the mountain, but not where I was. I dug down into leaves so I was half buried most of the time. I talked and sang to magpies, there were other animals around. I think I slept a lot of the time, they said I was feverish and in some kind of shock from the broken ankles. Later on I thought it had only been a few days.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]What did you drink? I can imagine someone surviving without eating for 3 weeks but no water? Impossible
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4 days: family and work
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About six weeks. I was attached to someone else's unit at NTC in California for a training excersize with them. There were no showers in the field, and the showers pre and post excersize were colder than a witches tit, and open as a gay mans asshole after all night orgy.
And that wasn't the worst part of the whole experience either.
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Close to a month. Depression.
I did change my underwear though
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If you swim in a pool every day, you don't need to really shower much.
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Couple months. Severe depression does that to me and all health care just stops. It's bad.
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A week is my usual. I know, I know, but my mental health is a lot worse than my body odour.
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First thing that comes to mind is spending a week camping on the shores of Lake Mead many years ago. Didn't shower for a week, though one could argue that being scoured by lake water when you either go flying off an inner-tube or make a mistake while water skiing, does a fine job of taking the dirt off.
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If you swim in a pool every day, you don't need to really shower much.
Counts as a bath in my book
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Two weeks while backpacking in New Mexico (unless you count getting rained on every day as a shower)
Yup, same. 2 weeks while backpacking. I did have a washcloth, of course.
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Several months now. Maybe a year. Long Covid with ME/CFS has permanently tied me to my bed. I basically spend my time collecting energy to go number 2, which is the last thing I can stand up for. And only because using a bedpan looks about as strenuous as walking to the toilet. And that way my wife can change my bedsheets.
But not being able to shower is awful. I stink. And I have to watch parts where skin is rubbing on skin for infections. Zinc salve and a cotton scarf help.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I also have LC. I can have a shower. But I take at least an hour to gear up for it. Then I can only do it sitting doen, then I take an hour to find the energy to dry myself off, then I take an hour to gain the energy to get dressed, etc. Tl;dr it takes all morning and I can't have a shower every day.
I took a shower at 11 am and I'm still exhausted at 5 pm (the summer heat doesn't help).
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If you swim in a pool every day, you don't need to really shower much.
Chlorine is nature's soap.
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This thread was way more interesting to read than I expected!
I am boring, probably 6, 7 days at max
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Spent 2 weeks hiking in around the Red River Gorge, Kentucky and Sheltowee Trace back in the late 80's. Only time I got wet was when it rained, or found a creek to take a dip in.
When I got home, even my own Mother would not hug me. She sent me off to the bath where I stayed for over an hour.
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Like 4 days, but I was LARPing and I was a sweaty, stinky mess from running around the entire time.
