Bad side cramp during ride

[indysteel]

Yeah, I was afraid you would say that. I wanted to avoid the ER, but I might have to head there afterall.

[indysteel]

I don't think it was heat related. I was drinking enough water and it wasn't overly hot. I know how I feel when I get overheated and dehydrated, and this wasn't it. I also don't think I'd be having lingering GI issues if it was heat related.

[Catrin]

hmmmm, how low down your right side was the pain? I've had pain like that from my ovary, back when I still had one - but I don't remember any GI issues related to it.

Take care of yourself...

[pll]

Are you still in pain or is it only the GI issue? I tend to have digestion issues when it's hot and I am not acclimated (and, oddly enough, also at the beginning of my menses). If you are not in pain, it could be something transitory, including some virus. I would give it a couple of days, give your system a rest (broth and steamed rice or rice porridge), and if the symptoms have not cleared, visit the doctor.

[indysteel]

Are you still in pain or is it only the GI issue? I tend to have digestion issues when it's hot and I am not acclimated (and, oddly enough, also at the beginning of my menses). If you are not in pain, it could be something transitory, including some virus. I would give it a couple of days, give your system a rest (broth and steamed rice or rice porridge), and if the symptoms have not cleared, visit the doctor.

That's basically what I was going to do. I feel relatively fine today, although I decided to skip a hot yoga class just to be on the safe side. I'm fairly acclimated to the heat. While I haven't been riding, I have been hiking and running, and I practice yoga in a fairly hot room. I tend to think I had a bit of stomach bug or that the cookies I ate just did not agree with me. I never eat more than a cookie or two at a time on the ride, but they just didn't have the best options at the stops. It was either cookies are green bananas. Certainly, if I continue to feel off, I'll call my doc. DH and I are doing the Horsey Hundred next weekend. If anything goes wrong there, then I'm going straight to the ER.

[pll]

Yep, it could be the green bananas. Some things just don't go down easily during exercise. Had a friend lie down on the side of the road with stomach pain for an hour after eating a bunch of watermelon pieces during a ride called the "Melon Metric" some time ago.

Hope you get better quickly. And I wish you the best of weathers for the Horsey Hundred!

[indysteel]

I actually avoided the green bananas. I ate cookies instead, maybe too many cookies. I also spent the previous evening with a baby, so God knows what I might have picked up. I'm hoping it was a fluke.