chest pain after apnea walking

[marindiver]

Hi guys, need some feedback on this:a few seconds after I start breathing at last attempt in trying to do max time in apnea walkig (in training that was going on for about one hour) I felt intense pain in upper part of my chest and also in my arms in their whole lenght. It lasted maybe 30 seconds and then stop, everything else was as usual.
I am a bit worried about this and would like hear some opinions from you.
Thanks

[naiad]

Did you pack for the apnea walking?
How many attempts did you do, and what interval in between?
How hard did you push yourself, how many max attempts?

Definitely don't do any more apnea walking until you know what the problem is.

Lucia

[atomichaggis]

See a doctor. Forums are informative but not the best place to seek medical advice, especially if something is causing You intense pain.

[marindiver]

Originally Posted by naiad

Did you pack for the apnea walking?
How many attempts did you do, and what interval in between?
How hard did you push yourself, how many max attempts?

Definitely don't do any more apnea walking until you know what the problem is.

Lucia

No packing, all together with warmup 8 or 9 attempts, plenty of rest between from 5 to 8 min ( max apnea time in fast walking 1:20 to 1:35 min ),
I had 4 max attempts.

[marindiver]

Originally Posted by atomichaggis

See a doctor. Forums are informative but not the best place to seek medical advice, especially if something is causing You intense pain.

Resonable advice, but there are no doctor specialized in diving medicine in my region, so I thought maybe someon had similar experiance and can tell me something about it before I see a specialist.
Oh, and general medicine doctor, well there is a joke among spearos in my country about it: when you bring a freediver to a doctor it's like bringing a formula 1 to a local car mechanic-he seen it on a tv, maybe heard a few things about it, but he don' now what the heck to do with it.

[DiverTodd]

Originally Posted by marindiver

Oh, and general medicine doctor, well there is a joke among spearos in my country about it: when you bring a freediver to a doctor it's like bringing a formula 1 to a local car mechanic-he seen it on a tv, maybe heard a few things about it, but he don' now what the heck to do with it.

This is VERY true; on my last doctor visit, he was listening to my heart with his stethoscope. He told me to take a deep breath. I had only just STARTED to inhale when he said "Ok, that's enough!" He also knows I'm a freediver, and is amazed at the depths I reach, and how long I can hold my breath. Now, you would think doctors would be AWARE that the human body CAN do these things...

Todd

[maytag]

I can understand about docs not understanding the needs of freedivers, but i also agree with atomichaggis.

What I would do if it were me, is to go to the GP and ask for a cardiac evaluation. I don't know how old you are or what your background is, but you can be totally fit, young, and still have cardiac risks. There is a higher probability of a cardiac abnormality killing you than a freediving-related issue.

I was at a marathon last weekend. 1.5 km into the race or so (practically at the start), someone died, cardiac arrest. Sorry if I'm a bit un-nervy about these things. Apnea walking is sufficiently stressful on the heart that you definitely want to rule out cardiac causes.

The GP probably won't know about diving/freediving-related injuries. But, it may still be of value and just tell your GP you have chest pain upon exercise and then tell him/her you want to rule out cardiac problems.

All the best.
Not-a-doc-just-concerned

[naiad]

Originally Posted by maytag

The GP probably won't know about diving/freediving-related injuries. But, it may still be of value and just tell your GP you have chest pain upon exercise and then tell him/her you want to rule out cardiac problems.

That's what I would do.

[marindiver]

The GP probably won't know about diving/freediving-related injuries. But, it may still be of value and just tell your GP you have chest pain upon exercise and then tell him/her you want to rule out cardiac problems.

All the best.
Not-a-doc-just-concerned[/quote]

Well, last year I had complete cardiac evaluation. One part of it was 24 hour heart monitoring which discovered minor abnormality called supraventricular ectopy-it is iregular heartbeat. It occures in 0,1% of all heart actions in monitored time so it was classified as minor, and final result of a tests was "tests show no sign of heart desise".
I mentioned my freediving activities to a cardiologist and ask him is it ok to continue with that, and he said no problem. But I wasn' convinced, my feeling was that he was not completly sure what I was talking about when I mentioned freediving, what are effects of that on healthy body, and even more on unhealthy one. So, I think visiting a specialist on diving medicine will be needed.
I must say that it wasn't my attention to underastimate any medical worker in any way.

[naiad]

There have been a few threads about irregular heartbeat and freediving. Links on this post...
http://forums.deeperblue.net/654929-post13.html