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After 15 miles of riding hard (4th ride back from few months off from injury) found mmyself difficult to take a deep breath and at home heard myself wheezing.
I must admit I rode with quick riders and I'm out of shape and we took on some tough hills and powered through.
15 miles back and it was a real struggle to power up hills.
I'm worried its asthma! or did I just over do it and need to more rides?
My chest seems sore taking a deep breath.
Any ideas? I had a runny nose this morning and that happens when I'm stressed - have some worries -waiting on news from government cuts on research but nothing serious. GF reckons I'm stressed from lack of sleep.
MTFU and get to sleep!?
Used a mates inhaler and seemed to improve breathing but chest seems sore.
Any advice? will call GP I guess if it gets worse.
slight dampeness in the air perhaps, maybe the start of a cold ? I wouldn't have thought stress or lack of sleep would cause it.
Mine started that way. It got better when I was using the blue inhaler but went completely when I left the Big Smoke behind. Regular visits to the beach regardless the weather, cleaner air, less stress, all those have made a huge difference.
I have had asthma since about 15yrs old. it has never stopped me doing anything. Playing football, scuba diving and biking etc.
I use a purple slow release steroid inhalor every day (morning and night) and have a blue emergancy relief inhalor which i carry with me. I struggle sometimes on long steep climbs (especialy when its hot and humid) but i can feel when my breathing is getting out of control and just back of the gas and control my breathing to get it back in place (breathing techniques). Yes this means sometimes my mates pull away on some climbs when i slow my breathing back down. But other times im not effected and am either in front or on there back wheel up the steep long climbs.
Its just something ive learnt to live. I mainly suffer at night and regulary wake in the night struggling for breath and grab the blue inhalor for releif. Biking i always carry my inhalor with me, but very rearly use it as i can feel my breathing changing and just control it and slow the pace and concentrate on controling the breathing.
Go to your GP to seek advice, they can do peak breatinhg tests etc and also listen to your chest. Asmatha aint the end of the world, it just needs to be controled.
My nose is starting to run by itself like I have a cold.
Think it might be an allergy or a cold like you guys said or just induced by exercise. Might ring GP for a check up.
I have just been released from the hell that is asthma and sympathise muchly with you guys (not 100% but enough! 😀 ). If you think you have asthma get to the docs to get the controlling medicine. If it is, as it sounds, exercise induced asthma you simply will learn to live with it and adapt. I have been working to find triggers for mine and apparently foods have been the main trigger, so maybe start looking at foods as a way of eliminating causes.
Asthma is a great excuse when you can't be ar5ed on those big climbs. 😉
The alternative is that it is just a cold, so MTFU! 😉
Hope so but been sneezing like hell this morning since I drank some milk.
Thinking its either food or dust allergy.
Thanks for the advice will MTFU but I do love hills till I can't breathe!