Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Not sure if this is the right place...

If you are in a dormitory setting, IBS can be horrible! The lack of privacy during attacks must be embarassing.

A sitz bath looks like a mini toilet seat with a bowl under it. It comes with a tube and a bag. You fill the bag with hot water (not too hot) and let it run into the tube. You set the sitz bath on top of the toilet seat. There is a clip that the tube goes into and if you sit down on the sitz bath seat, it bubbles up and creates a mini "spa" for your bum. Your bum rests in the hot water and you control the flow of the water into the sitz bath by elevating or lowering the bag. When done, you dump out the water in the toilet and reuse the sitz bath as needed.

If you could somehow discreetly run into the bathroom with the sitz bath wrapped in a towel, quickly fill up the bag with water and then run into the stall you would have some privacy. It doesn't make noise or anything - I think people would assume you just in there doing normal 'business'.

Have you noticed that there is a time that less people are around?

Here is a link to drugstore.com. They sell 2 kinds there and there are pictures. I thought that it might be helpful if you could see what they look like.

http://www.drugstore.com/search/search.asp?searchtype=1&trx=28198&trxp1=60&srchtree=1&search=sitz

Good luck!

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