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Anonymous Guest
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:59 am GMT +0000 Post subject: Pain in chest at LT |
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Doc,
I get this bad pain in or above my chest whenever I get around LT (around 185 BPM). I caught a bad cold or respiratory infection in February and it's still bothering me, to the point where I can't finish races. I can do LT intervals of 5-10 minutes but more than 20 minutes or so into a race, the pain becomes unbearable.
I've had allergies and asthma for 2 decades and am taking several med's for these and am generally symptom-free. I've talked to my allergist and general doc and both just give me different ways to take Proventil and Intal. But this isn't about wheezing, it's just a raw feeling in my bronchial tubes that isnt affected by these inhalers.
I talked to a guy at Comfort and he told me he had the same thing a couple of years ago and just lowered his intensity while riding (only endurance rides) and it eventually went away after a couple of months.
Should I just take it easy for awhile or could there be something else to treat it? My doc's here in Dallas don't seem to understand the implications of high-intensity training and its relevance to this problem. Thanks for any input. |
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The Bike Doc 250+
Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1398 Location: Corpus Christi and Warda, Texas
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:04 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Brian:
Your symptoms could be related to the respiratory infection in February. The lower respiratory tract airways, the bronchioles, can remain hyper-reactive to irritants including exercise for 6-8 weeks after a lower respiratory tract infection. Talk to your doctor about seeing an adult Pulmonologist to help sort things out. You may benefit from having a Pulmonary Function Exercise Test performed to see if airway reactivity is underlying your symptoms. It that is the case, then you may benefit from some Pulmonary medication adjustment.
Thanks, _________________ Paul K. Nolan, MD
AKA: The Bike Doc |
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:17 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Thanks Doc.
I was already thinking of seeking out a pulminologist if this didn't go away by this past w/e. Guess I will for sure now. |
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