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So I think I reversed my asthma

2016-04-18T23:34:20.000Z

I'm 31 years old. Been biking all my life. Been rolling on the big wheel since I was 5. When I was 13 I got into BMX riding heavy, and played many sports through Jr. high/ high school. During this time I've had bad asthma and needed to report to the school nurse to take my inhalation pump mid day. It sucked. I carried it through high school and put it down to begin working out and change my life when I graduated.

Fast forward a bit I picked up cycling in my early twenties. Maybe around 24 years old starting with track bikes. I would ride everywhere. I picked up road bikes when I was 27 years old and fell in love. I recently got blood work done and my doctor said I'm fine and that my oxygen levels are at 99% I wasn't sure what he meant but since I started cycling I haven't picked up an asthma pump. In fact I forgot to even mention that I had it at my visit. I'm wondering if I may have reversed my asthma due to my lifestyle of eating fruits and plants with included starches.

If anyone can shed some light here that would be helpful. I'm not sure if I should pay him another visit or not. I haven't had any issues with asthma for 12 years now and haven't used any medication at all. I believe this could have reversed due to my cycling and my running over the years.

How to prevent burning in lungs when biking in cold weather?

2015-02-15T14:43:26.000Z

I live in the South of the US/close to the equator. While it does not snow here, it does get chilly. I want to ride my bike and I will, but I need some advice on how to stop that burning sensation in my lungs when I bike in cold weather. Should I cover my mouth with a cloth or breathe differently? What can I do to minimize it, if anything?

in need of some emotional support

2013-04-26T01:51:31.000Z

i feel a lot of past emotional habits coming up along with the beliefs and stories that i have attached to them and there is not really much i can do besides be here for myself and love myself. i am so grateful..and this may feel hard but i know that tomorrow i will feel better. i will be able to take a deep, full, pure breath and feel so alive and full of energy, ready to do and be and feel and have everything that i desire.

a belief that is coming up really strong is one that says i cannot fully express my emotions. and i know that this is false, a lie. i am somewhat exhausted but expressing this feels so good i just want to cry! thank you! i am so happy that i have a place to express my self. i love you all so much. i feel a lot of old fears coming up as well. in my heart i know that they are nothing but constructs.

a challenge and focus for me is to come back to my body, every time, right here and right now. it feels so good to breathe

i have a lot on my mind right now, and most of it is habitual "nothingness"..but i also feel a deep sense of shifting. i guess my old patterns of resisting change are really being challenged right now. but i feel really ready, really here.

i haven't done any vigorous playing today and i am seeing now that every day i do play hard, like really play HARD, i don't feel this way. and every day i don't, i feel a little more lethargic. i am going to ride my bike tomorrow so hopefully i will get really motivated and focused and feel a lot better :)

thanks for reading this if you have. you're wonderful.

Must Cure My Asthma

2012-12-28T20:28:23.000Z

I normally have no trouble with eating raw. I really enjoy my food, but I've been falling off a lot and maybe that's because of how cold it is. I've had two really bad asthma attacks this year. Even when my breathing wasn't too bad I never once skipped a day of taking asthma medication which makes me really sad and scared. I feel like I have an addiction.

I wish I had been a little tougher on myself this year. January I discovered raw and quickly transitioned in hopes of curing my asthma. But it's been a very rocky year, and though my raw habits never faded away for too long (I'm pretty sure I've eaten fruit for breakfast and some sort of salad every single day) I kind of wish I stayed strong, because then maybe I would be healthier by now. (less breathing trouble)

I'm going to be patient and let the healing take as long as it needs to, but maybe I'm too dependent on the medication by now. Maybe the healing wont work unless I stop giving my body the medication that keeps me sick. I'm just scared. I hate feeling suffocated which is why I want it to go away forever, but that process probably can't start unless I stop taking the albuterol.

I think I've been a little bit in denial about how much albuterol I take. I'm pretty sure its been more than once a day, every day, for over a year. That's dangerous and scary. Because I'm the one that monitors my own breathing and I just give the disease what it wants without thinking about it, and then just carry on with my day.

I'll just try to give it up, I'll just try and see how it goes. I remember during my last attack when I could barely get any oxygen even after seeing the doctor, I felt so miserable that I promised myself I would do anything to prevent that from ever happening again. I felt so stuck and out of control.

I know what I'm really fighting here is just mucus. Lots of people have cured their asthma through raw foods and I'm going to be one of them.

I feel like I'm dying slowly.

2012-05-04T07:58:30.000Z

Hey there my fruity brethren,

This is my first post on 30BAD and while I want to introduce myself and get chatty with all of the wonderful people I know I'm going to meet here, but my health comes first in this situation. I know it's a long read but please bare with me.

I've been vegetarian since I was 13, vegan for two years, HCRV since early this year, and recently 80/10/10 but for the past couple of months, I've had a strange feeling in my head. At first, I didn't pay any mind to it because the symptoms were common to me and it didn't seem all that threatening but now it is a full-blown nightmare that I just want gone immediately. The biggest issue I have had is a sucking feeling/feeling like there's a lack of oxygen in my brain. Everyone I've talked to calls it a 'headache' but it isn't one, not to me at least. There is very little pain, it just feels like my brain is swelling or in serious trouble, I know it is because it is so severe now and it affects everything. The next biggest issue is the fact that I've had many heart palpitations within the last five or so months. This was diagnosed firstly as stress/anxiety/panic attacks, since I've been prone to them in the past, but it's gotten increasingly worse over time and completely uncontrollable, I never know when my heart is going to self-destruct next. I'm just going to cut to the chase with the other symptoms I've been experiencing on & off during each day and list them here as there are too many:

Extreme fatigue
Heart palpitations/irregularities
Excessive thirst
Lightheadness
Dizziness
Cold extremities
Brain Fog
Burnout
Chills
Tremors
Feelings of fear
Overheating
Over-stimulation
Excessive memory loss (short term)
Chest pain
Disorientation
Tinnitus
Visual disturbances
Muscle weakness/spasms
Shortness of breath
Difficulty finding the right word
Difficulty sleeping
Slurring of speech
Depression
Impaired concentration

If I left any out, then so be it, but you can get the general idea as to why I'm freaking out here. Last night I felt like I was going to faint, like literally faint because this brain issue got so bad, it's getting worse and worse every night. Something interesting here is that when I eat large fruit/green meals, the symptoms seem to be weakened for a few hours but then return immediately afterward and they are worst at night, before bed. It's worthy to note that I do have a vitamin D deficiency but I have been supplementing for almost a month now with 10,000 IU vegan D3 daily and getting sun whenever possible (it's cloudy as hell here for some reason this year). I recently had extensive blood work done to check on my current health. I have improved leaps and bounds going HCRV and the results proved it with everything reading perfect EXCEPT for my vit. D, however upon leaving the doctor I also noticed that my b12 was quite low at a score of 205 and even though I know the proper test to figure out my real b12 levels was not performed, I feel as if low b12 might be playing a role in all of this.

Late last week/early this week, I've had some scares with all of this. First, I woke up to heart palpitations (not out of a nightmare, just a strangely peaceful dream), which has never happened before and I immediately began breathing exercises to try and quell them. They did not improve, only worsened doing this and I got up to walk around and calm myself down. At this time, my left arm went numb and began to spasm. I thought I was having a heart attack but convinced myself it was just a severe palpitation and that everything was going to be alright but then my body went into chills and I started having tremors. So I drank some water and laid down flat, with everything off and the window open. Within around two hours, it was completely gone. The next incident was just that night as I was sitting in bed talking to my mother about what had happened that morning. Without any warning, I felt a lightning bolt (this is what it felt like to me) pierce my brain, then my heart and fizzled out down my lower abdomen. It was there and gone in an instant, but the pain I felt in that instant was unlike anything I had ever felt, it was so severe and scary. The last incident was two days ago when I went with my grandmother to an Asian buffet (they have raw fruit there) and right when we were about to pull in, my brain felt as if it were going to explode. Anyone who knows me can tell you that I don't blow things out of proportion or exaggerate in regards to my health. I am honest in saying that my brain felt as if it were swelling and my head was going to explode. I never, ever want to feel these things again and just thinking & typing about them is making my heart beat faster.

I have this eerie feeling that this has been going on for years but is just now coming to a head, due to the fact that I've been experiencing toned-down versions of symptoms like these on and off for many years, though they've always been passed off by doctors as panic attacks, anxiety, vertigo, paranoia, etc. I can tell you that the doctors where I live probably should not be practicing or considered professionals. I live in the south (U.S.) and here doctors are very quick to pass off symptoms as meaningless or they will generalize them. It's a "get 'em in, diagnose 'em, give 'em the latest drug, then get 'em out" type of medical environment here and I've had to go to Nashville (capital of my state) to get anything done in past years. My doctor didn't even pay attention to me when I visited him last week regarding this issue and was expressing my concerns and symptoms. His assistant even went as far as to argue with me about how I was wrong and had generalized anxiety disorder (don't get me wrong, I know it may look like that from a distance but it isn't if you bother stepping close and examining me). He insisted I see a cardiologist, even though in his words "There's nothing wrong with your heart." and I had to insist many times on seeing a neurologist until he caved. It's no surprise that I had to make the neurologist appointment myself and that he is taking his time on the referral for that particular appointment only. I never get angry but these 'doctors' are pissing me off. You can mess with me all you want, but messing with my health, especially when I'm in such a vulnerable position right now. I can even tell typing now that something is wrong with me. I used to be so articulate and now my words just seem jumbled together and dumbed down.

Anyway, I won't go any further and will leave it at that. If you read through all of this, major kudos to you and I love you for it. I will try and respond to comments but all I feel like doing right now is lying in my bed. Thank you for your help.

Burpee breathing technique?

2012-05-01T20:04:17.000Z

Hey everyone! Wondering if anyone has a good breathing technique for burpees? I find it's difficult to establish a pattern. I'm imagining a burpee that includes a pushup and a jump. Looking for when to inhale and when to exhale. Thanks!

Feeling Weak, difficulty breathing

2012-01-31T14:24:18.000Z

Hey guys, I've been raw vegan for about a month now and I'm starting to feel weak and, after waking up this morning, noticed it was difficult to breath and felt a bit like vomiting. I'm 20 years old, second year university student. 2 years ago, before I went raw vegan, I went raw for 3 months. I wanted to continue but my uni didn't have a meal plan for raw vegans or vegans at all and it was mandatory for me to buy a meal plan. Anyways, from what I remember, my last time going raw yielded amazing results - I felt less moody and in general just healthier. I'm assuming that I'm not taking in enough calories which makes sense since for about a month now while on this diet I've been waking up at 5am and heading to the gym to work out. But heres where the second problems comes in, I feel disgusted to eat most fruits (apples, pears, bananas). I'm not sure why, I use to love these fruits but now I cant seem to keep them down (that might be an exaggeration, just feel disgusted to eat them). Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm in a lecture right now but when I get home I'll post what I've been eating each day and how much I've been working out (I've been keeping track). Any advice would helpful, just keep in mind that going back on animal products is not an option for ethical reasons.

Forgetting to Breathe ? Help

2011-11-07T03:40:22.000Z

Has anyone here ever experienced a sensation as if your body forgets to breathe automatically??

This happens to me a few times a year, on a rare occasion and I'm experiencing it again this week. It's strange...just constantly yawning and having to go "out of my way" to take deep, full breaths because it seems my body is not breathing normally on its own. Auto breathing is very shallow.

Any idea what on earth would cause this? I'm doing cardio everyday and feel fine then...