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.
If you can find a pool somewhere in your area that uses an irradiation system, you could rule out chlorine's effects by swimming a couple practices there.
There was a thread somewhere on these forums about allergies, and the consensus was that swimming with nose plugs can be lifesavers. It seems like it would be too good to be true, but they really seem to eliminate post-practice cold-like symptoms in lots of people.
Do you have the problem with any other form of exercise?
More and more, I am inclined to adopt the HTFU Rx with regards to any somatic complaint. Tell yourself it's only a nuisance and soldier on. Eventually it will either go away, stay the same but not get any worse, or get unbelievably worse, making diagnosis by ER doctors and/or the medical examiner all that much easier.
I swam 6000 yards the same day my retina was slowly detaching from its perch on the back of my left eyeball. Afterwards, the presence of a shadow in my visual field made even this armchair diagnostician reasonably confident that I knew what was wrong. I got it fixed and am back!
My friend and swimming coach has been suffering from supraventricular tachycardia during practice much of the last three months. He is soldiering on even as the occasional wafting vapours of halitosis from the Reaper make us all wonder it this is advisable.
Time will tell.
Improvement. Stability to the new reality. Or much, much worse.
Swimming, in my opinion, will not materially alter the course of, and therefore should not be a contraindication to, any of these fates!
If you can find a pool somewhere in your area that uses an irradiation system, you could rule out chlorine's effects by swimming a couple practices there.
There was a thread somewhere on these forums about allergies, and the consensus was that swimming with nose plugs can be lifesavers. It seems like it would be too good to be true, but they really seem to eliminate post-practice cold-like symptoms in lots of people.
Do you have the problem with any other form of exercise?
More and more, I am inclined to adopt the HTFU Rx with regards to any somatic complaint. Tell yourself it's only a nuisance and soldier on. Eventually it will either go away, stay the same but not get any worse, or get unbelievably worse, making diagnosis by ER doctors and/or the medical examiner all that much easier.
I swam 6000 yards the same day my retina was slowly detaching from its perch on the back of my left eyeball. Afterwards, the presence of a shadow in my visual field made even this armchair diagnostician reasonably confident that I knew what was wrong. I got it fixed and am back!
My friend and swimming coach has been suffering from supraventricular tachycardia during practice much of the last three months. He is soldiering on even as the occasional wafting vapours of halitosis from the Reaper make us all wonder it this is advisable.
Time will tell.
Improvement. Stability to the new reality. Or much, much worse.
Swimming, in my opinion, will not materially alter the course of, and therefore should not be a contraindication to, any of these fates!
