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[norwester]

Hi I have been training for a 1/2 in may and a full in June. Unfortunately I had an internal Bleed in October which drs thought was caused by an ulcer. I have since had an endoscopy which showed no ulcer but inflammation of the stomach and several polyps.

I was put on nexium but whenever I did a long run I would suffer from extreme fatigue nausea and burning sensation in the upper chest. The fatigue would often stop me doing some of my training the following week.

I did a 22 k run a couple of weeks ago and came down with the same symptoms it really knocked me for a six. I went to the dr who suggested also taking zantec and have three shots of b12. He also said that I needed to put the full on hold and take my runs back to 10ks.

He is saying that I am producing too much cortisol which is causing all the symptoms. I found a site that had a study on the rise of cortisol on runs over an hour and the fact that it stayed high in some people and this caused symptoms like mine. They also mentioned that it could be from overtraining, I have all the symptoms.

I run early in the morning as it is quite hot here I am thinking it may have something to do with not having anything in my stomach. I used one endura jel on my 22k run and drank Gatorade probably 1.5 l quite diluted as I don't like it strong.

Has anyone ever experienced this or if anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. I have done two 10k runs and so far so good. I did one in the afternoon to see if it made any difference, I thought the afternoon run was harder and my tummy was not happy!!

[BEN-HUR]

Consider taking a non-dairy probiotic...

Probiotics at the guts of performance (link):


All the best.

Edited by BEN-HUR, 18 March 2012 - 10:41 PM.

[norwester]

Thanks Ben-hur that has brightened my day. The heat and humidity are very large factors up here. I will go to our health food shop tomorrow to see if they have it if not I'll order online, sounds promising, thanks again.

[TopEndChick]

i also notice that this study was commissioned by the makers of the product? might be worth considering... but certainally some healthy gut bacteria wouldnt hurt. Gluten also causes the 'leaky gut' syndrome they are talking about.

regarding the ulcer - didnt two guys recently win a nobel proze for dicovering it was actually a bacteria or virus which caused stomach ulcers, not stress (ie: increased cortisol) like originally suspected?
Given your other GI symptom, I would be seeing a dietition or naturopath asap!!!  to me, it sounds like a dietary intolerance putting stress on your whole system - this would result in malabsoprtion of all kinds of nutrients = fatigue & lethargy..

has you doctor performed other blood studies? ie: hemoglobin, salts, etc? i am also in the heat and humidity & salts are a biggie. Ive been taking magnesium & potassium supps (PPMP) for about 6 months (plus a super mega multi) and havent looked back!  
goodluck

[Caterpillar]

TopEndChick, on 19 March 2012 - 06:02 AM, said:

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regarding the ulcer - didnt two guys recently win a nobel proze for dicovering it was actually a bacteria or virus which caused stomach ulcers, not stress (ie: increased cortisol) like originally suspected?
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yep, it was a couple of Aussies who won the nobel prize in medicine for it in 2005. See
http://en.wikipedia....cobacter_pylori