What's the longest you've gone without a shower/bath. Why?
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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.
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Chlorine is nature's soap.
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a month,I was in the woods. there were no baths
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A little over 3 months is my record. Mental health issues, naturally! 🥳
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A week or two probably, when in the army.
And since wr actually we're responsible for actual foods hygiene, we always got sauna/bathing priority. So never went more than two weeks imo.
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Several weeks. Usually I shower before leaving the house so when I was too depressed and anxious to leave the house I felt no reason to take one. But I don't shower as much as most people in general. Once a week maybe unless I'm sweaty or dirty. I also brush my teeth inconsistently. But I've never had a cavity, fungal infection or anything else hygiene related anywhere on my body. I also don't stink in case you're wondering
I disinfect my pits and use deodorant daily, I always check myself and my clothes and I also ask friends sometimes to be sure.
