Cold Shower Experience: gagging and excessive drooling.

Ok, this is really bizarre.

I've been a big fan of cold showers, but for the last couple months have noticed something really strange. As I'm taking a cold shower, and applying the body soap, I almost immediately begin excessive drooling and if the soap stays on me too long I begin to gag. It doesn't even need to be on my face, but just on my body. I've gotten some really intense reactions from the body soap, and it's gotten so bad that a few times I've almost thrown up.

The water temperature seems to be a factor to this. This only happens in cold showers. It's actually only become much more pronounced as we've gone into winter and the water in the pipes has gotten much colder.

However, I'm not having those reactions if I'm using warm water in the shower. I can use as much soap as I want and keep it on me, but if the water is warm, I neither drool or gag from the smell. It's just like a regular shower then.

I know this is really weird but has anyone else experienced this?

 

No, not at all. I actually get pretty sick from it, and because of that the showers are quite short.

Also, it doesn't matter what kind of body soap I use, at least so far, and it has the same reaction.