Pneumonia and training.

[Matt C]

Discuss.

[Bast000]

just take some time off.  brutal insecurity about your weight.

[the shadow]

I was diagnosed with this yesterday. 

I'm pretty sure I came down with it on Monday.  I think the mental stress caused by my cousin stabbing me in the back, coupled with the heavy pollution in Fort Frances weakened by immune system to the point where I was more susceptible to it.  I honestly haven't ate or drank much of anything in that time.  I don't even want to step on the scale.

How do you guys work around stuff like this?  I haven't been to the gym since I got sick because I don't want to weaken my immune system further.  Has anyone had pneumonia before?  If yes, how did you deal with it and how long did it take to gain back any weight you may have lost.

dude just continue training and do not lif heavy weights under such conditions..keep traning but not heavy...take hot water baths after training..this would soothe the muscles and ease the pain

[Matt C]

dude just continue training and do not lif heavy weights under such conditions..keep traning but not heavy...take hot water baths after training..this would soothe the muscles and ease the pain

Yeah, I'm getting muscle pain, especially in my back.  Did you get it before too?

[the shadow]

Yeah, I'm getting muscle pain, especially in my back.  Did you get it before too?

naah i read this somewhere plus my dad was a veteran bodybuilder too..he told me this..now he does not bodybuild though but he knows alot about training around an illness

[Matt C]

naah i read this somewhere plus my dad was a veteran bodybuilder too..he told me this..now he does not bodybuild though but he knows alot about training around an illness

Good stuff!  I lose muscle quickly and I don't have any to spare.  I just want this to do the least amount of damage possible.

[Rimbaud]

just take some time off.  brutal insecurity about your weight.

Agreed. Use this as an excuse to take a week or two off.

[Whiskey]

Good stuff!  I lose muscle quickly and I don't have any to spare.  I just want this to do the least amount of damage possible.

Matt do not train while you are sick.Your heart and body are already under enough stress trying to fight the sickness.
Take a week off.You will only lose water not actual muscle.
You think what took you a couple of years training can just disappear in aweek or two.
Of course it wont and in fact it will be good for your body to rest.
If you train while your sick the only thing that will happen is an injury that will take more time away from the gym.
Just rest,take in calories and when you go back training just take it light.
After 5-6 workouts your will be back to your old self again.
Hope this helps.

[Triple-H_2005]

My area of expertise happens to be antibiotics, and I deal with upper respiratory infections on a daily basis.  Your best bet is to ask your Doc for a script for the Leva-PAK.  It's Levaquin 750mg for 5 days.  It'll knock Community Acquired Pneumonia out faster than any of the other antibiotics.  Biaxin and Zithromax have failure rates of @ 30% nation-wide.  The Clavulanic Acid in Augmentin will have you shitting through a screen door.  And the other quinolones have some health concerns you'll want to avoid...Avelox has qTc interval prolongation issues and Tequin disturbs blood sugar levels fairly significantly.  If he tries to give you Ketek, no.  25% failure rate, blurry vision and I've seen several cases of rashes.
Leva-PAK...5 days, 99% susceptibilities for s. Pneumonia and h. influenzae (the 2 most prevalent causitive pathogens in pneumonia) and placebo-like side effects.

You may just have to suck it up and take 4 or 5 days off, but most of the weight you lose will be water.

Hope this helps.

[figgs]

I agree with those saying to take a few days off. Today is actually the first day this weekend recovered from the flu. Didn't train, didn't think about training, and I might not train today. I'm glad I had an appetite. I got all my calories. Lots of soup and orange juice.

I swear to you that nothing made me feel better than did weed. I was able to jump out of bed and run around while stoned. Best medicine there is. It's worth the paranoia you say you suffer from, I think! Well, in all seriousness, I recommend it. If you don't have an appetite, smoke some weed and BAM all you want is a huge meal!!

[the shadow]

naah mate..your all wrong..take a few days off..not a whole week or so.just take 2 or 3 days and continue taining with very light weight..go for eps and eat senisbly.do not eat your regular big meals that you must be eating..eat a bit less and DO NOT SKIP TRAINING after 3 days of rest..doing light weight would keep your muscles maintained

[Princess L]

This guy had a bad experience training while sick.

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=106381.0

[avesher]

when u say stabbed in the back, and then you say you have back pain, do you mean an actual "stabbed in the back" or just in the mental sense?  Sorry, not familiar with whats going on here.

[ether]

Just out of curiosity how were you "diagnosed" with pneumonia.

Did you have a chest xray or bloodwork done? Did your family doc listen to your chest.

Also, what antibiotics are you on?

[Fury]

I would take a week or two off, pneumonia isn't a common cold.

By the way, who the hell would take advice from the Shadow? You must be suffering from hallucinations.

[figgs]

naah mate..your all wrong..take a few days off..not a whole week or so.just take 2 or 3 days and continue taining with very light weight..go for eps and eat senisbly.do not eat your regular big meals that you must be eating..eat a bit less and DO NOT SKIP TRAINING after 3 days of rest..doing light weight would keep your muscles maintained

What's the point? It's pneumonia! All I'd want to do is sleep, rest and recover. When I know I have my trusty muscle memory, I won't feel any need to force myself out of bed and have someone drag me into the gym to train with a 100+ fever. That's just stupid.

[Adam Empire]

I would take a week or two off, pneumonia isn't a common cold.

By the way, who the hell would take advice from the Shadow? You must be suffering from hallucinations.

If you take time off, you will recover faster.  Get rest - you have the rest of your life to lift...

[Fury]

If you take time off, you will recover faster.  Get rest - you have the rest of your life to lift...

No shit? I was pointing out that listening to the Shadow telling the guy to keep on lifting would be a gigantic mistake. You don't fuck around with pneumonia, it's not something like the sniffles.

[youandme]

Dude, don't listen to anybody on here.  Do not train when you have pneumonia.  You will end up in the hospital because your body will break down.

True. If you were on steroids none of this would have happend in the first place 

[Hypertrophy]

I would suggest you do not train at all. I had pneumonia and was coughing up small amounts of blood at one point. I would never want to go through that again, ever. A course of antibiotics and about 2 weeks very very easy, and I was back to normal.

[Necrosis]

pneumonia isnt a small thing there matt. i wouldnt push your body at all, blood infections(sepsis), menighitis etc depending on your infection etioliogy are not uncommon. relax, take a break, the idiots here telling you to work out are insane, pneumonia is a cold it can be life threatining and pushing your body is only going to make the infection spread. strange to hear you ask such a stupid question, pneumonia can take some months to clear in some cases, and i know lots of people who ended up in the hospital and even one whos lung collaseped due to fluid build up. just take a week or two off and chill out.

[Necrosis]

is it viral or bacterial matt?

[Triple-H_2005]

That's what I was wondering.  After I posted, I re-reas his post and it doesn't sound like it's actually been diagnosed.  Need to see a doc, get some chest x-rays...etc...

[the shadow]

What's the point? It's pneumonia! All I'd want to do is sleep, rest and recover. When I know I have my trusty muscle memory, I won't feel any need to force myself out of bed and have someone drag me into the gym to train with a 100+ fever. That's just stupid.

i never said you should train at 100+ fever...just get a bit normal and continue a bit of light training

[youandme]

i never said you should train at 100+ fever...just get a bit normal and continue a bit of light training