Getting in the bath

I would love to have a bath. But my hips and knees won’t allow. it. So, I just have a shower.
Unfortunately, I have no other suggestions. Good luck !

I can only shower now due back and knee pain. But happily I have always preferred a shower over a bath, am not one to linger over my ablutions, whereas whenever the DDs stay over they love a long soak in the bath and often read whilst in there.
Sorry absolutely no use to your predicament.

There are gadgets that lower into a bath but how successful they are I dont know.

I much prefer a bath and am still able to use mine. It depends on how your hips and knees are. I have a replacement hip but knees are intact.
I have tried to strengthen my arms with exercise so I can drop myself as slowly as I can, down into the bath and then turn onto my knees and push up on the sides of the bath to get out.
It won’t be possible for ever , but so far it works for me.
Have heard gadgets can work, but can’t speak from personal experience. Good luck and take care

Some people manage with a bath board and bath seat

There are steps, stools and bath bars which, imho, never work exactly right on their own. Getting into the bath is OK but lying down, getting back up and climbing out is another matter. I never take a bath now, which I miss terribly. I was a bath-time daydreamer (a book, some Brahms or maybe Bill Evans...). Converting the shower room to a wet room has proved useful for my DH (stroke survivor) but I just loathe showering (how on earth do people wash their feet and legs properly - not to mention the tender bits?). I'll never get used to the rotten shower but there's no alternative (hmm, maybe two strong men doing the lifting?).
If you don't mind a lot of builders' noise, mess and expense, it might be possible to create a sunken bath, with built-in steps so you could walk straight off the floor down into the water. There'd still be the problem of the sit-down-stand-up routine, though.

It’s one of the main things putting me off having a knee replacement. One of my favourite things in life is having a bath. Probably because, as a child I lived in a back to back and didn’t have a home with a bath till I was 18.

Have a look at a reclining bath lift, not cheap, but if you can sit on the seat and swivel your legs over they take you down to a couple of inches of the bottom of the bath.
You do need a little more water obviously but they are quite comfortable and allow you to soak in the water.
They run off a battery that you charge up and slot into the back of the seat.

It’s not the getting in the bath which is the problem. It is the getting out?

Bath with door opening? (though I would be a bit concerned about leaks).

Basgetti

Bath with door opening? (though I would be a bit concerned about leaks).

You are talking about
Medic baths.
There had been a few occasions at work when these doors have accidentally been opened by mistake, causing a huge flood.

Think the downside with the bath door style you have to sit in increasingly colder water until it all runs out, which can take a while.

I can still get in and out of the bath at 80, but I have one of these long handled steps in case my RA flares up badly in the future. I would hate to stop bathing, it is so relaxing. I have tried it and it makes the stepping over the rim easier. I don't know if that is your problem, but if so it could be a solution.
bath step

If you have problems lowering yourself into the water, I go onto all fours then flip over, reversing the process for getting out.

silverlining48

Think the downside with the bath door style you have to sit in increasingly colder water until it all runs out, which can take a while.

Very good point.

they fitted dads bath with a seat which would swivel sideways so he could just sit down like an ordinary chair. then it swivelled back over the bath and lowered itself down into the water then when he was ready back up and sideways again. it was fitted by OT i do not know if there would be an equivalent today i guess to get a referral you could ask your GP. the only downside as far as i could see would be if you have anyone else using the bath as it was very bulky and hard to squeeze in though it could be lifted out. trouble was as it was a small bathroom it was hard to know where to pop it while you were bathing!
when i moved to my bungalow there is a bath. i tried to have a bath and was really panicking as i was sure i was stuck due to all my joint problems. thankfully i am due to be fitted for a wet room as its so hard getting over the bath to have a shower. i slipped today and can see my leg is changing to a nice shade of purple!

Like this?
I’m sure there are other companies too.

ive seen those i think dad tried one of those but he could not manage to step over the bath. this was a proper shaped chair so nice and safe

I'm another person missing baths. When I had had one knee replaced I could get in and out of the bath. I had the second knee replaced three months ago and haven't had a bath since. My husband says that he is sure he could get me out!! I'm not risking it so I guess it's showers all the time now.

DH loved his bath but increasingly as his illness progressed he couldn't manage it. We were given the loan of an electric hoist from NHS which took him into the water and lifted him out again

He managed only once with my help but the stages took too long and I can remember him shivering after he came out from the, by then, tepid water.

It was bedbaths only after that 😕

The safest option is to ask the physio and OT who treated you. You shouldn't do what shysal does and sitting on a bath board is not the long soak you are looking for.

I gave up having a bath years ago as it resembled the sinking of the Titanic getting in and getting out was a nightmare. I now have
showers. I had to have the bath removed because of lack of space

I would think most gadgets are expensive. You need professional help. Don't have a shower fitted over your barh, it can be dangerous..

Perhaps no help at the moment but after my shoulder replacement I was in the same predicament. Then I read, on here advice about turning over on my tummy and kneeling to get my self up. Brilliant advice for me and may be for you in the future? I do have a bar to haul myself up and a rubber mat in the bath too. Good luck. I so missed my daily bath at first.
Ps in the heatwave this year I used my bath water to water my plants and they came up really well this year!

Sallywally1, you're not allowed to kneel after a knee replacement and susytish says she's had a knee and hips replaced so wouldn't be able to kneel to get herself out of the bath that way.

The other day I decided the bath shower screen needed a good scrub (visitors use that one) which proved more difficult than I thought, climbing in and out of the bath in attempts to rinse off the limescale remover!
Never again.

I used to like a soak in the bath but am resigned to showers only now.

Perhaps one of those seats which lower down, as Georgesgran suggested, might be the best idea*susytish*?

I can’t bear the thought of never having a bath again