Light headed and fainty while cycling

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:20:29 GMT, "Fabrizio Mazzoleni"
wrote:


"Leo Lichtman" wrote in message
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I am not a cardiologist,

I am, and it's safe to ignore those symptoms.

Not only are you not a cardiologist, but you got kicked off the front
steps of a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Dwayne wrote:
|| "psycholist" wrote in message
|| ...
||| "Dwayne" wrote in message
||| om...
|||| I cycle about once every 2 - 3 weeks for about 20 miles. I
|||| recently
|||| was at about mile 15 on a 20 mile ride and doing a long slight
|||| incline
|||| hill and got really winded and stopped to rest twice, which
|||| normally
|||| is not a problem for me. I got queezy and sat down on the ground
|||| and
|||| everything started spinning and then I almost fainted, everything
|||| turned black and then bright. My husband tried to call for help
|||| but
|||| our cell phones didn't work so we sat there another 30 minutes and
|||| I
|||| completely recovered and was able to ride home without any
|||| problems.
|||| Even felt energetic but after I got home I felt tired and a little
|||| weak.
||||
|||| What could have caused this? Too rapid of a heartbeat maybe?
|||| Dehydration?
||||
|||| I drink a lot when I ride and this day was not hot at all. I just
|||| felt like my heart was about to come out of my chest and I couldn't
|||| get enough air.
||||
|||| Thanks,
|||
||| What you describe sounds almost exactly like what a friend of mine
||| told me
||| happened to him just before he went to the ER and was diagnosed
||| with some
||| kind of cardiac issues that are resulting in him being schedule for
||| surgery
||| to install a pacemaker.
|||
||| I'd strongly suggest, as did another poster, that you get to a doc
||| and
||| describe this incident in detail.
|||
||| Bob C.
||
|| Oops, forgot to add that I am a diabetic type II but have my BG
|| completely under control. When I got home my reading was 160 which
|| is
|| a little high but no higher than usual, with or without excercise.

I think 160 is pretty high....were you drinking/eating anything carby?

I seem to remember someone else complained of this very condition in this
newsgroup not too long ago.

I suggest you see a doctor.

Also, try to cycle more frequently, but maybe less distance. Try to build
it a bit.

|| What's strange is that my husband had the same episode twice a few
|| months ago, but not quite as bad. It was kind of like being sea
|| sick,
|| really dizzy and sort of queezy on the stomach. then as he rode more
|| it got completely better. I do take a Blood Pressure pill but its
|| for
|| the health of my kidneys as a precaution because of Diabetes. I'm
|| only 36 years old and am generally pretty healthy although I have
|| some
|| stomach problems, sometimes I have gall bladder attacks but other
|| than
|| that I'm fine.
||
|| Thanks and my husband posted this message but its really for me. My
|| name is WAnda