Sometimes after our workouts I feel completely wiped. (I refer to this as "blowing a gasket"). It's all I can do to drag myself to the car and drive home, which is luckily not very far. Usually it's a sprint workout that will do it. Let's just say that it makes it hard to get work done the rest of the day... Does this happen to anyone else? Any suggestions, other than "don't swim as hard," which seems to be defeat the reason why I am there in the first place? (It doesn't seem to me that I am swimming harder than anyone else).
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Having gone through no shortage of quasi-hypochondriacal amateur self-diagnosis over the years, for everything to somnolence (tsetse flies nesting in my pillow?) to groin lesion analysis (sexual leprosy?), I have come to believe in the old chestnut about horses and zebras.
My health issues aren't self-diagnosed.
For example, Thalasaemia is a hereditary kind of anemia. I had a bone marrow test for it.. after being misdiagnosed with all kinds of things, from lazyness to chronic fatigue syndrome and mononucleosis etc etc.
Eventually I found a doctor that paid attention and noticed that my anemia was unresponsive to iron supplements - which is the case with thalassemias. If anything all the additional iron poisons your liver. He suspected thalassemia, sent me to a hematologist to do a bone marrow test, and it came out positive for thallasemia beta minor with microcytosis. this means, genetically, tour red blood cells are about 70-80% the size of normal ones. As a result, you can carry less oxygen. see: en.wikipedia.org/.../Thalassemia
If I want 'normal blood' I can have it by transfusion - which is what Pete Sampras used to do for competitions, so he could perform in athletic range.
On the good side of it, I'm supposedly naturlaly immune to Malaria - whatever good that does me LOL.
Same with other health issues, they've actually been diagnosed.
Having gone through no shortage of quasi-hypochondriacal amateur self-diagnosis over the years, for everything to somnolence (tsetse flies nesting in my pillow?) to groin lesion analysis (sexual leprosy?), I have come to believe in the old chestnut about horses and zebras.
My health issues aren't self-diagnosed.
For example, Thalasaemia is a hereditary kind of anemia. I had a bone marrow test for it.. after being misdiagnosed with all kinds of things, from lazyness to chronic fatigue syndrome and mononucleosis etc etc.
Eventually I found a doctor that paid attention and noticed that my anemia was unresponsive to iron supplements - which is the case with thalassemias. If anything all the additional iron poisons your liver. He suspected thalassemia, sent me to a hematologist to do a bone marrow test, and it came out positive for thallasemia beta minor with microcytosis. this means, genetically, tour red blood cells are about 70-80% the size of normal ones. As a result, you can carry less oxygen. see: en.wikipedia.org/.../Thalassemia
If I want 'normal blood' I can have it by transfusion - which is what Pete Sampras used to do for competitions, so he could perform in athletic range.
On the good side of it, I'm supposedly naturlaly immune to Malaria - whatever good that does me LOL.
Same with other health issues, they've actually been diagnosed.
