Lung Collapse?
11-05-08, 12:10 AM
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You're joking, right?
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11-05-08, 12:14 AM
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Dude go see a doctor.... Or are you Americans all uninsured? Or at least go to a forum where they will take your question seriously (thats not here).
11-05-08, 12:15 AM
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You should probably go see your doctor.. not being able to breathe well for 2 days is not a good thing. Should probably gone ohhh.. day 1 but better late than never
11-05-08, 02:04 AM
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Collapsed lung? Were you suffering from TB when you rode or something? But seriously, see a doc because something isn't right.
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11-05-08, 06:00 AM
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No, you will not just fall over and die. Your breathing will become severely restricted, yes. If you're breathing fine now, IMO, I wouldn't worry about it. Ride hard again and see if the symptoms return. 
11-05-08, 06:01 AM
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'Collapsed lungs' are interesting things. And yes they could happen riding. Unfortunately to be 100% sure you'd need an xray to identify it although anyone capable with a stethoscope should be able to help speed the diagnosis along. If you're breathing fine now then you don't/didn't have one. I have seen these things pop up while someone was digging holes in their front yard. You won't die from one, but living is a total bi7ch. Breathing is difficult and painful and treatment usually involves a chest tube.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
11-05-08, 07:40 AM
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Having had a collapsed lung (courtesy of a crap brown Toyota) I can honestly say it hurts like a bastid. You will fall to the ground in pain and you most likely won't get up.
Then you get to ride in the wambulance and have a chest tube stuck in you for your troubles.
Does this describe your experience? Regardless, I'd suggest taking a pass on the experience if possible.
Then you get to ride in the wambulance and have a chest tube stuck in you for your troubles.
Does this describe your experience? Regardless, I'd suggest taking a pass on the experience if possible.
11-05-08, 07:49 AM
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Having had a collapsed lung (courtesy of a crap brown Toyota) I can honestly say it hurts like a bastid. You will fall to the ground in pain and you most likely won't get up.
Then you get to ride in the wambulance and have a chest tube stuck in you for your troubles.
Does this describe your experience? Regardless, I'd suggest taking a pass on the experience if possible.
Then you get to ride in the wambulance and have a chest tube stuck in you for your troubles.
Does this describe your experience? Regardless, I'd suggest taking a pass on the experience if possible.
11-05-08, 07:54 AM
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Maybe you are beginning to suffer the results of excercise induced asthma (EIA)? I didn't get it till I was an adult and I had a big episode when riding and it took me two days to recover. No pain, just wheezing. Felt like I was breathing in ice air. And very little of it. How I got over the panic part of it (I was trying SO HARD to breathe) was that I had to make myself breathe slower and not try to take big air gulps. That helped me alot. Because when I was trying to take huge amounts of air, I almost passed out.
11-05-08, 08:22 AM
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Go see a doctor.
My step-brother has a genetic disorder that causes a collapsed lung, without warning and in no relation to his current activity.
He said it didn't hurt at all (but the chest tube did), his breathing was very restricted, and it felt like there was a fluttering in his chest when he breathed.
First time it happened (around 16), they kept him off physical activities for awhile, and the hole closed. Second time (around 18) they stapled the hole in his lung closed, and attached his lung to his chest wall, which is supposed to fix it for good (but he can never scuba dive again, or anything like that).
My step-brother has a genetic disorder that causes a collapsed lung, without warning and in no relation to his current activity.
He said it didn't hurt at all (but the chest tube did), his breathing was very restricted, and it felt like there was a fluttering in his chest when he breathed.
First time it happened (around 16), they kept him off physical activities for awhile, and the hole closed. Second time (around 18) they stapled the hole in his lung closed, and attached his lung to his chest wall, which is supposed to fix it for good (but he can never scuba dive again, or anything like that).
11-05-08, 09:02 AM
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Funny you should use that word; I was going to suggest that you may have had a panic attack. My wife has had them, and when she gets that wound up, she has pain and trouble breathing. The thing is, you wonder if you're dying, and the panic just makes the symptoms worse.
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11-05-08, 12:15 PM
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I have asthma and it sometimes feels hard to breathe in, like I can't get enough air. The doc gave me an Albutirol inhaler, which does help. I would prefer not to use it, it's kinda nasty.
11-05-08, 12:19 PM
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You're going to trust your life to a bunch of people on an internet forum populated by people who buy plastic bicycles?
Seriously, you should have gone to Emergency at the time. Sure, panic attacks happen, but you shouldn't assume that unless you already know you have them and you recognize the symptoms in yourself.
Could have been any number of reasons, none of which involve a collapsed lung.
Seriously, you should have gone to Emergency at the time. Sure, panic attacks happen, but you shouldn't assume that unless you already know you have them and you recognize the symptoms in yourself.
Could have been any number of reasons, none of which involve a collapsed lung.
11-05-08, 04:34 PM
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You're going to trust your life to a bunch of people on an internet forum populated by people who buy plastic bicycles?
Seriously, you should have gone to Emergency at the time. Sure, panic attacks happen, but you shouldn't assume that unless you already know you have them and you recognize the symptoms in yourself.
Could have been any number of reasons, none of which involve a collapsed lung.
Seriously, you should have gone to Emergency at the time. Sure, panic attacks happen, but you shouldn't assume that unless you already know you have them and you recognize the symptoms in yourself.
Could have been any number of reasons, none of which involve a collapsed lung.
11-05-08, 04:45 PM
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I've experienced both, and they are very scary until you learn what's going on. Then they're just annoying as hell. (Migraines, too; the first migraine, you think you are either dying or going crazy, or both. Then you usually recover and it's not as bad after that. Although the pain is always, always going to suck, you at least don't get as much of the panic side).
11-05-08, 04:47 PM
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You're going to trust your life to a bunch of people on an internet forum populated by people who buy plastic bicycles?
Seriously, you should have gone to Emergency at the time. Sure, panic attacks happen, but you shouldn't assume that unless you already know you have them and you recognize the symptoms in yourself.
Could have been any number of reasons, none of which involve a collapsed lung.
Seriously, you should have gone to Emergency at the time. Sure, panic attacks happen, but you shouldn't assume that unless you already know you have them and you recognize the symptoms in yourself.
Could have been any number of reasons, none of which involve a collapsed lung.
11-05-08, 06:41 PM
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You're going to trust your life to a bunch of people on an internet forum populated by people who buy plastic bicycles?
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I was given an inhaler (albuterol) but I don't like to put more chemicals into my body than I need to. I've been taking Potassium and Magnesium Aspartate 250 twice a day. It helps with oxygen circulation in the blood. And makes it easier for me to breathe, because now my lungs can take the air better for some reason. I've been doing this for about nine months now and after six months of taking it every day I found I don't need my inhaler. But that's ME. I'm not sure how the OP would react to it.
https://www.bodyandfitness.com/Inform...lth/asthma.htm
https://www.asthmaworld.org/asthma-magnesium.htm
https://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/122/2/396
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