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[Katymac]

Should I not be having baths with patches?

I didn't know that!! Is it true?

I'm supposed to have 3 x 20minute baths a day for my fibromyalgia!!

This is not going towork if I can't have a bath - it is nonsense isn't it?

[jillydoll]

I don't know Katymac, but you can buy a plaster used for burns, it's like a second skin that you'd put over a burn, I actually bought some off e-bay when I used patches because I kept snagging mine on my clothes, and these plasters stopped that. I used them in the shower and they didn't budge.
I'm sure someone else will post soon, hang on until you get their advice...
There might be a simple solution.....xx

[Perinowpost]

Katymac

I have a bath every day of my life and I've been on patches for years, it's never made any difference x

[Taz2]

It's never made a difference to my patches! I swim with them too with no problem. Who asked you this daft question?   

Taz X

[Katymac]

phew!!

Just my Aunty (also on patches)

Thank goodness for that

Baths reduce pain so I'm not giving them up - only useful thing the rheumatologist said to me!!

[CLKD]

I wouldn't give up my baths for any reason 

There are tales told of both HRT patches and 'false' breasts floating across swimming pools 

[Yorkshire Girl]

I swim & have baths never been a problem. I find my stick too well, can hurt when I remove them!

[Katymac]

Gosh yes mine hurt to come off & as for the black edge!!

It's daft isn't it - I am normally strong and capable, judging data on it's merits/peer research

And then today? Tell me that? And daft as it seems I immediately panic and stress!

Bloody meno!

[Salad]

It's never made a difference to my patches! I swim with them too with no problem. Who asked you this daft question?   

Taz X

Exactly this 

[suzysunday]

Yes, I over think everything these days.  Anything I think of trying I read reviews on google and put myself off. 

[Sarai]

I take long hot baths with Epsom salts in and the patches are fine.

[Katymac]

Oooo Epsom salts - I haven't had them for a while!!

Just opened a new box of patches - the box has changed, the individual packets have changed and the actual patches have changed - for a person with rampant allergies it fills me with dread!

[CLKD]

Bugga ........... end of the NHS Financial Year influencing generics? 

[Katymac]

I dunno - tbh this pack looks 'better' than the older one - it's branded and has one set of sticky labels on it

Whereas the older one was a plain white box with a sticky label and the individual packets had badly printed labels over other labels (not quite put on straight which annoyed my brain)

So not sure

but they aren't the ones I should be on anyway

At least I haven't reacted so I'm OKish

Interestingly the paperwork inside the box says you should have spare patches for when they fall off....can't wait to challenge the GP with that one!