Hi! This is my first post. I just started Masters Swimming and had a scary incident happen.
I have a terrible kick, so my coach has been doing a lot of leg drills with me. Last night, he had me swim with fins in a side stroke position with flippers on. I did 8 sets of 75 yards.
By the last set, I started wheezing (I don't have asthma), and my lungs were gurgling. I couldn't stop coughing.. and I found I couldn't swim anymore.
All last night, upon exhalation, my lungs would make a loud wheezing/percolating sound. It's fine today, but my lungs are really sore from coughing.
Did I swallow water? Maybe, I didn't really notice.
I've Googled like crazy, and haven't been able to find anything, except for SIPE (swimming induced pulmonary edema). But, everything that I read, points to open water swimming. I was in a chlorinated pool. I also didn't cough up the pink, frothy stuff they talk about. I did notice a tiny bit of blood, but I think it was from coughing so hard... but I did have the same type of experience with the wheezing and rattling in the chest.
Has this happened to anyone else? What could have happened? I'm now kind of afraid to swim again.
Thanks for any input on this.
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Thanks for your responses. I didn't go to the doctor or the ER because the next day my lungs sounded normal. In fact, I went to work on Friday.
The blood was just a little spec.. I think it was from coughing so hard.
This happened Thursday night, and it's now Saturday. My chest is still a little sore from coughing. I hate to go to the doctor when I really don't have symptoms anymore (other than soreness). Plus it's Saturday night, and my only option would be the ER.
I'm just trying to understand what happened.
I will say that prior to joining the Masters Team, I was swimming all summer... just straight slow laps for about an hour a day. I'm not used to sprints or drills, and I thought maybe it was the result of too much too soon.
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Thanks for your responses. I didn't go to the doctor or the ER because the next day my lungs sounded normal. In fact, I went to work on Friday.
The blood was just a little spec.. I think it was from coughing so hard.
This happened Thursday night, and it's now Saturday. My chest is still a little sore from coughing. I hate to go to the doctor when I really don't have symptoms anymore (other than soreness). Plus it's Saturday night, and my only option would be the ER.
I'm just trying to understand what happened.
I will say that prior to joining the Masters Team, I was swimming all summer... just straight slow laps for about an hour a day. I'm not used to sprints or drills, and I thought maybe it was the result of too much too soon.
