I think I have self diagnosed myself with Exercise Induced Asthma. The reason I say this is, today I did Active Recovery at my gym. This is an extreme cardio that I do once every 7 weeks. It is intended to get your heart rate up extremely high and then quickly back down. When I bring my heartrate up that quickly, I feel like I want to die. Is this normal or is this Exercise Induced Asthma?
I mean, I can eliptical for hours but I can't run for 10 min. I have never been able to. I am thinking maybe this underlying factor could have always been to blame!
Here is what emedicinehealth.com has to say:
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Exercise is a common trigger of asthma attacks.
Exercise can even induce an asthma attack in people who have no other triggers and do not experience asthma under any other circumstances.
People with exercise-induced asthma are believed to be more than usually sensitive to changes in the temperature and humidity of the air.
When you are at rest, you breathe through your nose, which serves to warm and humidify the air you breathe in to make it more like the air in the lungs.
When you are exercising, you breathe through your mouth, and the air that hits your lungs is colder and drier. The contrast between the warm air in the lungs and the cold inhaled air can trigger an attack. Once the attack is triggered, the airways begin to swell (bronchospasm) and secrete large amounts of mucus.
The swelling and extra mucus partially block or obstruct the airways. This makes it more difficult to push air out of your lungs (exhale).
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Maybe this is why when I work out HARD it feels like my throat is thick with heavy spit that I just can't swallow. GROSS I know.. sorry.. but it is interesting none the less. And I do breathe through my mouth when I workout REALLY hard on cardio.
I always thought I was just a spaz who could not run, but maybe there is a bigger cause to this crazy issue I have with the act of running...
I just had a physical on Wed and would feel stupid going back in to ask about this. Maybe I should ask DR Chris next time we play bar trivia... he is a wise DR Chris and maybe he will have some answers... I know Jonell will read this and laugh :)
You exercised yourself right into an illness!! :)
ReplyDeleteI have exercise induced asthma and it is accelerated by extremely cold temperatures (good thing I took up curling, right.. haha). In the winter I sometimes get attacks even when I am just walking outside for long periods of time depending on the air temperature. I also have the same problem with running, but for some reason yes - can be OK doing other exercises. Weird!
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