Swimming Pools?

[leelee88]

I was just wandering if any of you have trouble with swimming pools. We are wanting to get one for this summer..I love to swim and I know it will be good exercise..Lord knows I need that.. The pool we are getting does not require alot of chemicals...Just need your imput....thanks :smile tee

[Briza]

Ronda
I know I can't swim in pools...the chlorine is bad for my VV. I can swim in saltwater without any problems, (luckily I live near the beach because I LOVE to swim) but not pools. :( Hopefully the chemicals won't bother your symptoms:pray:

[ICNDonna]

We use Baquacil in our pool and it doesn't bother me. I don't do well in clorine.

Donna

[Cardholic]

A friend of mine just put in a pool with a "chlorine salt generator". He said "As far as chemicals it uses regular chlorine tablets in the winter as the salt system won't function when the temperature is below 65 degrees and acid just like other pools. The salt is supposed to be much better to swim in as it has about the same salt content of tears and about one tenth the level of the ocean." You may want to research this further as I know nothing about it. But it sounds like a more natural way to swim and better for the body. Good Luck!

[leelee88]

Thanks I will keep all this in mind:smile tee

[tigger_gal]

I have a pool we didn't put up last year, right after I got ot a couple years ago, I took a shower when I got out. I have a 25 x 30 one now and want to put it up.

[Berkshire Road]

Trust me, I'm an expert on this issue! I coach a springboard diving team in the summers, and I have to go in the water (plus, I love it!). It'll be great if you can get a low chemical system, but even in hard water I have a solution that works for me: Smear petroleum jelly (vaseline) all over your crotch before you go in. The water can't penetrate, so it's almost like a "vagina goggle." LOL Really, this does work.

Have fun spashing around!

[leelee88]

Ok Thanks For all of your help........

[tigger_gal]

:biglaugh: ok, but dose it do anything to the pool..

[kari1980]

Ronda,
I have a pool and go swimming all the time, plus I go to water aerobics classes. Sometimes I think it may bother me but mostly I'm ok with it and I don't even care if it does, because I'm not giving that up too!! I love to swim and love the classes, but I may just try the Vaseline thing, never heard of that before, but sounds like a good idea!

Kari

[Berkshire Road]

Well, Tig, there shouldn't be any effect on the pool from the vaseline -- as long as you're wearing a bathing suit...

[leelee88]

Thanks again.. We went to the pool place will know Monday if we can get financed. They do have chemicals that have no clorine in them, a little higher but will be worth it...Thanks again all:smile tee

[Vicki]

I can't do chlorine as I flare badly. We have a pool and did the frog system. It is supposed to be natural but it also bothered me. We switched to Bacqucil and I don't have any problems. Never tried a salt water pool so I don't have any advice there. Best of luck. -Vicki

[ICNDonna]

There's a generic for Baquacil now. The one we get is called Revacil I think. I found an out-of-the-way small pool supply place where it's about half the cost of the name brand.

Donna

[MerryBerryMoose]

I tried swimming in a pool while on vacation. It didn't work for me for a few reasons:

1. I can't take pressure on my abdoman, so the swim bottoms bothered me (I think it would have been better if I went comando--but I obviously couldn't).
2. The feeling of water being on the "down there" region made me feel like I kinda had to pee.
3. Oddly, the chlorine gave me only mild irritation (kinda frictional feeling).

[leelee88]

Thanks Donna.. Yea we priced the Baquacil. I about fell out of the chair..lol So thanks for the heads up on the generic brand:smile tee

[Sarojini]

I usually don't have trouble with pools at all :) We belong to our neighborhood rec club, and the pool is going to open on Memorial Day weekend -- can't WAIT. :D

We also have a hot tub that I do great with. We use a bromine sanitizing system in it. We tried this non-chlorine, non-bromine thing called ThermoClear for a while, but it was awful. It didn't bother me, but you had to check the water constantly. If you missed one day, the whole tub would become a bacterial soup. UGH. So, we switched to bromine, which is what we used in our hot tub when we lived in TN...