Fleck wrote:
In 2000 I had a severe bout of pneumonia. Was off work for 3 weeks (almost a whole week barely moving from a bed), and I was told would leave some permanent scaring on my lungs, would diminish my absolute overall lung capacity, and that I might be susceptible to exercise induced asthma.
- It was confirmed a number of years ago via MRI, that I have a herniated disc (L4-L5) - the classic one and a bulge in the disc above that one. So lower back is wonky to. Not a candidate for surgery yet. For what I do, I can keep it in check by lifestyle choices, core strength and not doing anything really stupid! I'm NOT helping you move! :)
also mostly OK, still moving so it can't be too bad.
interesting on the pneumonia, I had the same thing in 2005-6 winter, bad pneumonia followed by pleurisy. Nobody told me about the consequences but all of that happened - lung capacity down, EIA started in summer 2006, pulmonary shunt of some kind. The exercise induced asthma was under control with albuterol aka salbutamol until this year, when it stopped working. Now have plain old asthma as well and don't even need to exercise to get it. The EIA is incapacitating these days, both run and swim, keeps me at what used to be easy aerobic pace.
herniated L5-s1 disk since early 2000s at least, core exercises keep it at a dull ache most of the time.
neuromas in both feet, mostly dormant now, controlled with inserts when necessary.
insertional achilles tendinitis L foot since 2009 or so, mostly controlled with eccentric heel drops.
sciatica/piriformis since 2005, flared up this year. In desperation tried the Sacro Wedgy which has actually worked, not clear if it was that or the daily foam rolling though.
repeatedly torn R calf muscle. The latest occurrence I suspect was a side effect of the sciatica flare-up, 3 months off running and daily foam rolling seems to have placated it for the moment.
L shoulder impingement controlled with regular scapular stabilizer exercises etc
broken ribs 2015
vitreous detachments in both eyes since 2013 unresolved, without glasses I'm legally blind..
hemicrania continua, controlled with indomethacin but that has side effects so live with it most days
there are a lot more traumatic injuries and surgeries in this thread than I expected, even given bike crashes.
Also way fewer overuse, than expected of endurance athletes..
"It is a good feeling for old men who have begun to fear failure, any sort of failure, to set a schedule for exercise and stick to it. If an aging man can run a distance of three miles, for instance, he knows that whatever his other failures may be, he is not completely wasted away." Romain Gary, SI interview
