help! swimming is killing me...i started a masters program 6 months ago, up to 3500 yrds 3-4 times a week, love it, feel great, more energy,lost weight however... started getting sick about 5 weeks ago after workout,labored breathing chills and flu like pain lasts 24 hours or so. my dr prescribed anti biotics and inhaler took 1 week off went back strong workout felt great, got even sicker next day better. now prednisone and 2 weeks off, feel great,go back, go easy 2000 yrds-sick again! my goal is to swim open water mile this june and i need to get this thing solved, i don't think it's asthma as the inhaler does nothing and also my eyes were horribly bloodshot when i was acutely sick, any ideas? i even tried another pool thinking same results.
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CRAYON - WOW - the EXACT same thing has been happening to me. I Just started swimming seriously again in Septmeber and it started getting bad in December. It happens everytime now and starts about 2-3 hours after I get out of the water. All the same symptoms. I even tried an inhaler last time and it did nothing. I'm now done with swimming until I can find out what's going on. Have you had any luck in this? I hope it's not chlorine toxicity, but I'm afraid that's my theory . . . Let's keep in touch in case one of us finds out the cause.
CRAYON - WOW - the EXACT same thing has been happening to me. I Just started swimming seriously again in Septmeber and it started getting bad in December. It happens everytime now and starts about 2-3 hours after I get out of the water. All the same symptoms. I even tried an inhaler last time and it did nothing. I'm now done with swimming until I can find out what's going on. Have you had any luck in this? I hope it's not chlorine toxicity, but I'm afraid that's my theory . . . Let's keep in touch in case one of us finds out the cause.
