A week ago, on Memorial morning I stepped on a stingray and he got me good! I did get immediate treatment from the Lifeguards and visited the urgent care a few day later. No infection, so no need for antibiotics. I have been icing it and taking ibuprofen and that has helped with the swelling.
I have begun swimming and biking but no running yet. I have my first full Ironman in less than 8 weeks so more time off is not what I need for the running training. Even before this, I was planning on run/walking the marathon due to IT, and other running related issues.
Just wondering how long you all were off before running again? I feel fine with flip flops, but shoes rub the wound, with in on the side of foot not on the bottom. I was told between 1 and 2 weeks. I have a low threshold of pain so I won’t be pushing it early, but really would like to get started.
In my opinion you need to be VERY careful with this.
I’ve read no peer reviewed info on this, just own experience.
My wife stood on a stingray the day before Oceanside 70.3. It got her really good - her foot was the size of a moon-boot. Despite my plea’s from the other side of the world she listened to the wrong fucking person and attempted to race anyway. Couldn’t even get her foot in her bike shoe so rode with it sat on top, came into T2 in maybe 2nd I think but faded BADLY!!
Afterwards she described the feeling every time she tried to push that her heart would ‘thump so hard’ it felt extraordinarily big (no shit the body was fighting the protein venom it was probably like sludge in there…)
Everything seemed to be ok, despite her having to fly home to NZ for MRI’s, luckily the barb had missed the sheath of the achilles tendon by 2mm. She got back to racing gingerly and was back in full swing I’d say in around 4 weeks.
Now…this is where my gut comes in…
Around 2-3 months later she started having episodes of a racing heart rate, fairly infrequent to begin with, to begin with she described it as the same feeling as racing Oceanside, general weakness and thumping heart. By the end of the season it was going off watching TV on the couch.
I have no evidence that it was the stingray other than a feeling, but everything was going pretty dam good in life until Oceanside and a fucked up decision to race.
She ended up having an ablation for superventricular tachycardia - thankfully no further episodes.
Not a doctor, but have had SVT since my teenage years, and none of my several cardiologists ever suggested this ongoing electrical malfunction could have been triggered by trauma or poison. But we are incredibly complex machines, so who knows…
A week ago, on Memorial morning I stepped on a stingray and he got me good! I did get immediate treatment from the Lifeguards and visited the urgent care a few day later. No infection, so no need for antibiotics. I have been icing it and taking ibuprofen and that has helped with the swelling.
I have begun swimming and biking but no running yet. I have my first full Ironman in less than 8 weeks so more time off is not what I need for the running training. Even before this, I was planning on run/walking the marathon due to IT, and other running related issues.
Just wondering how long you all were off before running again? I feel fine with flip flops, but shoes rub the wound, with in on the side of foot not on the bottom. I was told between 1 and 2 weeks. I have a low threshold of pain so I won’t be pushing it early, but really would like to get started.
Thanks for any feedback!
Forget about your foot, I wonder how long it will take for stingray to run and swim again without any fear of humans stepping on her. If she\he was in the water she\he was probably training for some iron man same as you. I doubt she will be able to ride bike leg with any good time anywhere soon.
Don’t be so self-oriented, there is always other side of the story.
Three times I have stepped on them warming up before a race, raced all 3 times. As long as you are not allergic, it is just pain you have to deal with. It hurts a 100 times worse than the actual injury is. OF course I have treated 100’s of these in my career, so I can use my big brain to override what seems to be a foot fatal injury. It just goes away in time, if you can, put your foot in as hot as water as you can stand and the pain will virtually disappear. Other than that, it is just time.
My best friend who is attempting to swim across the sea of cortez stepped on a good one right at the start of the swim. Nothing to do but dive in and start swimming, he said it hurt for about 10 hours…
So to answer your question of how long, until the gun goes off i guess…
No doubt. Please note I hold no ill will toward the stingray. if someone stood on my face I would get them also! I have to admit I was sort of hoping the venom would have some reaction in my system that would somehow turn me into “Stingray Man”. No such luck. All I have now is an infection. However I wonder what the stingray has? He/She did insert the tale into my foot. Who knows, maybe he is now “Human stingray”
