Anyone addicted to hot water bottles?

I've no idea.

Perhaps your body has become used to a pleasing warmth
at regular intervals, so much so, that you experience withdrawal symptoms when you try to interrupt the body's schedule.

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The best i've achieved was: Instead of hot water bottle i can use a heating pad to warm up my bed. I really cant stop, well...i can stop for one day, no more. To stop it means first huge pain in the liver, then pain everywhere.

Even in summer i have to heat my bed, it's about more than 30 years that i do this way.

If you're feeling a lot of pain, thats bad.

Pain=Bad

Trust me, its worth $50-$200 for a doctor to check it out.

I am thinking pain is psycologically generated, because doctors always say "Nothing wrong with your liver or stomach ecc!"

Sometimes they say: "It's a a little quirk"

Ohh so you've seen a doc, good.

I really don't know...
Do you not like sleeping with a hot water bottle?

I like it, that's not the problem.

Problem is; i cannot stop and the question: Am I the only one to behave like that???

My better half was a desert plant in her previous life, and suffers frostbite if temperatures fall below 17c.

She regularly takes a hot water bottle to bed, and only leaves it behind during our British summer, which usually lasts from July 20th to August 3rd.

Thanks Mister

At least i know now im not alone
I behave exactly like her.

What started it 30 years ago and why did it continue after the first couple days?

30 years ago i was about 18 years old, it started slowly.
I have to explain it better:
When i was a little child my mom very rarely allowed me to have a hot water bottle in bed, she gave me her hot water bottle but only when i was really sick. She never wanted me to always use hot water bottles. From 0 to 18 years i've used it 3 or 4 times only.

When i was 18/20 years old i started to use it almost each night, it was cozy thing, then i realized that i used it even if there were no reasons and most of all i realized; without my hot water bottle i were going to fell bad. So i went on; I liked it and i like it now.

It's not a drug addiction: nobody is going to tell me to go in Hospital for this.

On the other hand it looks like a harmul addiction.

My organs need to be regularly heated to work properly i suppose.

Wait until you hit menopause That is if you're a woman!

There are worse addictions, believe me - water bottles are of the more harmless nature. Just continue and do what makes you feel good.

I am a chocoholic by the way

I am a man

By the way: Your is the best answer i've got

Thank you

I imagine it's more about the ritual of it all.

It's a harmless habit, so don't worry, except if your bed partner objects.

"By the way: Your is the best answer i've got"



<storms off in a huff>

Never heard of this quirk. Personally, I have trouble sleeping without earplugs and an eyemask. Just remember that are worse things to be addicted to. Maybe you need to speak to a therapist to figure out the deeper meaning to this neurosis.

Spanky, sweetheart.....I'll share the answer with you

Be good again!!

When has it become a neurosis?

I was merely being hyperbolic and facetious rather than literal.