Aside from the neck pain, I have two other issues I am trying to resolve on the bike. One is the splitting headache problem I get during races. The other issue is new – slight dizziness while riding my bike. Every time I hit a little bump in the road, I get a momentary bout of dizziness. This just started a couple weeks ago.
I went to an ENT doctor this week, thinking all of this might be sinus or ear related. Dr. Yu at Chapel Hill ENT did not see anything wrong with my ears or sinuses, other than my deviated septum which pretty much blocks me from breathing thru my nose! She said I should get surgery for that. Maybe after my race season is over. She gave me three different nasal sprays to help with the nose breathing. She thought the headaches and dizziness might be a slight oxygen deficit issue. Interesting theory. Some googling turned up this link which talks about “oxygen fatigue” – sounds kind of like my issues: http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/health/tired.htm
Yesterday I went on a tempo bike ride. I had used all those nasal sprays, so was getting plenty of air thru my nose and mouth. Still got the dizziness. It seems worse when I go faster. It actually made me kind of scared to go too fast. WTF? That just ain’t right!
Other thoughts I have are:
Anybody have any ideas, I’d love to hear them! I’m starting to kind of freak out about the ironman. I do not want to suffer that splitting headache on the long bike rides at Duke 1/2 and B2B. And I need to solve this dizziness problem so I can go FAST down hills at Duke. That is how I always get a good bike split there. Help – I need to get my bike mojo back!!!!
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