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<p>So obviously I ended up doing fuck all, but I had a bit of a relapse of the cold situation so decided to leave it another week. This time for sure!</p>
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<p>Weigh in yesterday was nothing greatly different: 99.9kg, Chest 112, Waist 107, Hips 108.</p>
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<p>At this point, a tick over 3 months until goal date (birthday) to get to what I want (91kg), but may have to settle for 95kg...</p> -
<p>Should update generally I guess... slack fuck.</p>
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<p>I'm hovering around 100kg without really trying. I've been having this weird thing that the optometrist describes as "ocular migraine" where I get general dimming of vision in my right eye, but no headache.</p>
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<p>Except for one time where I went for a 3km run a few weeks ago. Got through the first km and then the right eye started to lose vision. Not totally but enough to be somewhat weird. Kept going, got to 3km in a shit time, decided to walk 2km roundabout route home. Ten minutes into that, BAM! Sharp headache that lasted for about ten minutes in the right side.</p>
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<p>Was like the symptoms of a regular migraine compressed into a half-hour period.</p>
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<p>Anyway since then I've had it a few times and put it down to stress. Cranial MRI was clear (they found nothing - ha ha) and eyes are 100% - especially for a bloke my age, apparently. </p>
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<p>Have played some rugby this year while I coach my local 2nd Grade - full game for Thirds a few weeks ago when we were short of numbers in the second row (not jumping, but threw 3/3 when the hooker went off), then a Fourth Grade Old Boys game (full scrum rules though) at THP on Saturday. In both games I got the dullness of vision in the right eye but ran it off with no headache. </p>
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<p>I also put myself on for the last 5 minutes of 2nd Grade on Saturday at loosehead. We were up 36-5 and I chased one of our big units through the line and to within 5 metres, then he got tackled, so I covered the ruck and then the next silly fluffybunny knocked it on. That was my try on the wraparound, right there. First one in 8 years!!! </p>
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<p>I'm fucking sore now of course. Silly old bugger.</p>
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<p>So, shitty vision problems and freezing cold aside, I should really start doing some morning or evening walks to start getting things tightened up again in preparation for Spring.</p>
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<p>Headed out for my first run in- well a few months i guess. Got the standard ocular migraine vision thing after the first 5 minutes but pressed through it with no headache. 3km in 16:41. Long way back but at 99.9kg not diabolical either.<br><br>
I am aiming to get a roll on with the running, build back to 5km as the weight comes off, and then see if the vision issues subside.<br><br>
At the same time I'll be doing some anaerobic work on the body weight side (burpees, chins, lunges, free squats) to see if that also brings on the vision bullshit and whether that is the better way to progress.</p>
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<p>Current mantra is "95 by November" so I've got a few months to shed ~5kg (half a kilo per week) and keep it off over summer.</p>
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<p>Then hit pre-season training next year (I'm coaching again because I'm a masochist) and make some of the boys vomit trying to keep up with me.</p>
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<p>Want to be under 90kg by my 40th Birthday. I'm sick of my nice jeans and work shirts not fitting comfortably.</p> -
Burpees are an absolute fluffybunny, no two ways about it, I find that with them it is mind over matter even if your 'jump' at the end after several reps doesn't result in you even leaving the floor. <br><br>
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<p>Fuck's sake. Been a while. Tried to exercise a few times but the migraine aura and occasional headache have been off-putting.</p>
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<p>Decided to do something about it this week, with a free 1 week pass to a group training gym owned by a friend of the family. Turned up tonight at the appointed time, and it was a ghost town. Dang.</p>
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<p>So I came home and did a very short HIIT session - 30 on, 20 off, with a mixture of chinups, squats, squat jumps (vertical and horizontal), burpees, lunges, and pushups.</p>
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<p>Worst 8 minutes of my year. Started to get the headache too so need to go see the chiro and get my neck checked out.</p> -
I often get migraine aura post excercise, sometimes during - for me I think staying hydrated is key, often easy to forget to drink when cycling. I'm lucky I don't get headaches though, so can cycle through it if necessary.<br><br>
NTA after a layoff you need to ease yourself back into it. That sounded way too intense! Really hope you get the head aches sorted, sounds like a nightmare. -
<p>The sensation last night was from the neck all the way up the right side of my head, which means first I want to get the shoulder etc checked out - might be referred pain. It was tense, not painful. And annoying.</p>
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<p>But I'll look into the medication. Nothing so far has been strong enough for the migraines, and the vision loss doesn't usually have pain following it.</p>
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<p>Hydration and taking it easy in the meantime. I bought an inflatable two-seater kayak for a bit of fun so will head up the river tomorrow with the kids for some water sport and a picnic.</p> -
Your vision thing sounds like scintillating scotoma. Google the Wikipedia page - there are a few images on it that replicate what it "looks" like.<br><br>
I occasionally experience it after exercise. Just the vision problem, not a full blown migraine. <br><br>
First few times I got it I thought I had blown a blood vessel in my brain or something. Quite scary.<br><br>
I normally think sports drinks are the devils's piss drunk by wanabees (or really serious athletes), but have found two actual uses for them. One being I suck down one when seeing that aura and it seems to clear up more quickly. -
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<p>Your vision thing sounds like scintillating scotoma. Google the Wikipedia page - there are a few images on it that replicate what it "looks" like.<br><br>
I occasionally experience it after exercise. Just the vision problem, not a full blown migraine.</p>
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Wow that is exactly what I get. Those images are bang on the money. Usually just the vision thing with no headache - often after exercise. Fingers crossed - I'm much more careful about hydrating eg when cycling, so haven't had a post exercise one for about month or so.
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<p>I'm thinking you guys all signed up to a LSD trial at some point!!</p>
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<p>I'm thinking you guys all signed up to a LSD trial at some point!!</p>
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<p>Sadly no! </p>
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<p>Its more boring than that. A <span>scintillating scotoma is related to migraines, even without the headache. Getting migraines is normally genetic and inherited. My father got them for example. I don't the headache but get the </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">scintillating scotoma which can have similar causes as a migraine which are often diet related. For example, a known cause is changing both your diet and increasing exercise intensity at the same time - the sort of thing many people do. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I find </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">scintillating scotoma don't tend to hit me </span><span>a weights day. I tend to get them on a cardio day particularly after a month or two of higher intensity coupled with a "good" diet where I'm both visibly losing fat (look in a mirror at ab definition) and actually losing it (measure waistline). This suggests my body is under stress and when I hit the cardio that day, I might have been dehydrated and/or have slightly lower blood sugar than normal.</span></p>
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Yep - everyone is different. For me I think it's any of hydration, blood sugar, caffeine, stress. Making sure I have enough carbs, water, salt etc while eg cycling has really helped. When overloaded at work easy to forget to eat and drink properly, have too much coffee, get stressed so that's a perfect storm. <br><br>
Had to give a big presentation with one recently. Not my idea of fun.<br><br>
I used to feel really wiped out after them, even the next day - woolly headed, disoriented etc. Don't get that so much now - fingers crossed it stays that way. Both my kids get them - headaches, vomiting the full works. Not proud to have passed that one on, poor buggers. -
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<p>I normally think sports drinks are the devils's piss drunk by wanabees (or really serious athletes), but have found two actual uses for them. One being I suck down one when seeing that aura and it seems to clear up more quickly.</p>
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<p>After giving birth to TR Jnr, Mrs TR was getting epidural headaches, which she said are worse than any migraine or headache she has ever had, and the nurses suggested she drink V or Red Bull to help ease them (due being limited as to what drugs they could use) which it did, but obviously has a side effect for TR Jnr... :morning:</p>