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 so much for your concern to everyone who was kind enough to answer my post. It's still all a mystery to me. I wish I knew conclusively what caused this. I honestly don't remember breathing in any water... although I know I do swallow some by accident every now and then.
The reason I posted here, was that I was hoping somebody recognized what happened to me and could tell me if it was exercise induced asthma or breathing water into my lungs. If I knew what it was, I could work to prevent it.
It's pretty scary when you exhale and your chest sounds like a coffee percolator!
Now, I'm in limbo land.. after an experience like that, I'm concerned about working out again. My doc wants me to take a few weeks off anyway.
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Thanks so much for your concern to everyone who was kind enough to answer my post. It's still all a mystery to me. I wish I knew conclusively what caused this. I honestly don't remember breathing in any water... although I know I do swallow some by accident every now and then.
The reason I posted here, was that I was hoping somebody recognized what happened to me and could tell me if it was exercise induced asthma or breathing water into my lungs. If I knew what it was, I could work to prevent it.
It's pretty scary when you exhale and your chest sounds like a coffee percolator!
Now, I'm in limbo land.. after an experience like that, I'm concerned about working out again. My doc wants me to take a few weeks off anyway.
