Post # 1
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Helper bee
Good Morning Bees! I was just wondering if anyone here regularly uses a sauna at their home/gym/spa whatever.
I suffer from some real bad bloating (medical issue) and I retain a decent amount of water, meaning I can be quite puffy/bloated daily.
It has been years since ive been in a sauna, and I was thinking of using it today after my work out.
Does using a sauna help with puffiness/bloating, and do you find it helps to lose some water weight?
Thanks in advance!
Post # 2
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Bee Keeper
Best way to lose water weight is to reduce salt intake and drink a LOT of water (4 litres/1 gallon a day). Saunas won’t do a huge amount to help if you’re not already doing that.
Post # 3
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Helper bee
SpecialSundae: I drink close to two gallons a day, if not more, its 9 AM here and I am already 80 ounces in with wtaer, and I barely eat ANY salt. I am not allowed to have salt or anything but water with my body issues.
Post # 4
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Helper bee
Shockingly, I used the sauna twice last week, had two bottles (just the small 20 oz ones) of water while in there, and it actually eased my daily stomach cramps very well and made my stomach feel less puffy/uncomfortable. I was SHOCKED! Its better than any medicine for the cramps I have daily or anything. And its free at my gym, go figure 😀 I am going to try it again next week and see how my stomach feels each day.
Post # 5
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Blushing bee
At my old gym we had a sauna and it was awesome! The people that used mine were appropriately covered (it was by the pool so most were in the pool before so wearing swimsuits) but I have heard some weird stories about naked people in there once!
I’m not a medical professional or anything but an old russian cure is activated charcoal for bloating. You’d probably have to buy it on amazon, although I did see it once at Walgreens but it was called something else (but only and main ingridident was activated charcoal).
Post # 6
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Helper bee
ahopahop: cant use the charcoal 🙁 but I know someone who uses it during her period and seems to like it alot!!
At my gym some people do go naked with a towel on them, as I was in there once last week and happened to look over on someone on the level above me and yup, there it was, all right in my face….. I was like well, alrighty then! LOL
Post # 7
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Bumble bee
My old gym had a sauna and steam room…I actually liked the steam room better…I never noticed if I was less bloated after, but I wasn’t looking, so hard to tell…
I stopped going because of the people that had no concept of nakedness and personal space…I would always go in wearing a towel, but there were a lot of people (never the ones that look good naked), that would go in naked, spread out, stretch, etc…things I just couldn’t “unsee”…it wouldn’t be bad if I went with a friend, because we would laugh about it…but when I was there alone, it was uncomfortable
Post # 8
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Helper bee
ct2015: Thats how the lady was when I was in there, just stretching out, all chilling right out in the open. oh boy! I was like hello hooha!
Post # 9
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Bumble bee
mightyduck17:
LOL!! The one that threw me over the edge (the steamroom) – when we walked in, I didn’t see her and took a seat on one of the lower benches…I looked over my shoulder and there she was, laying on her back, spread eagle on the bench…all 250 pounds of her…then, some people left, so my friend and I moved to a different bench…a few minutes later, the spread eagle woman got up, walked down, stood RIGHT IN FRONT OF US and decided to start stretching trying to touch her toes…WTF?!?! I was done…LOL
Post # 10
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Helper bee
ct2015: oh gosh! this lady had a towel on but was stretching/moving/doing bicycles/moving legs up and down with all of it just hanging out there. i mean its pretty dark in the sauna and relaxing, but you can still see that and if theres um.. a decent amount of hair then the little bit of light in there gleams off the sweat on it (not to be TMI!).
I would have been like holy crap! if I was in when you were in!