Just got this of another bike site i frequent, something to think about.
Seat causes heart attack?
OK, this is not funny and not meant to be a joke.. but it's a story maybe worth sharing.
I had a heart attack 10 days ago. All is as OK as it can be so no
worries.. But, I'm 58, multiple marathons under my belt, 6' 165 lbs,
fit, eat right, no cigarettes, yada yada.
Finally met with cardiologist today. In going over everything he told
me he guarantees there is no damage (excellent news, phew!), the ER guys
fixed me up fast, etc., so that part is as good as it can be as I say.
His consternation is "why?" Zero "plaque," lipids are great, resting
heart rate is 50, on it goes.
He said I had a 100% blockage in an artery where there were no plaques.
He therefore suspects it wasn't a plaque that had ruptured, but a blood
clot, as that would have traveled until it couldn't travel anymore and
therefore blocked the artery at that point.
here's the good part: he asks, "have you had a long trip lately where
you've been sitting for hours at a time?" Aha.. I have been scouring
this web site and talking with you guys about the high end custom seats,
as the stocker has been killing my boney butt on these 12+ hour days. Just a few days before my heart attack
I had returned from Las Vegas to central Oklahoma, and I felt that the
stock seat, although Spencerized (and no offense to him) hit my butt
bones such that it cut off the blood flow to my legs. For days later my
butt still ached from those pressure points.
My doctor thinks it is quite possible, and maybe likely, that I
developed a blood clot in my leg(s) from that, it cut loose and made it
to the coronary artery, causing the MI.
As stressful as this has been, I had to smile, knowing that this was the
ammo I need for convincing my wife to go for a new saddle - but all
that aside - it's probably food for thought for all of us who fit that
saddle "just wrong" and experience that feeling; to get off the bike
more often, walk around more often, and/or make a change in seating.
you do not half to travel on a bike for 12h to get mi but if you are going on a weeks holiday and doing a lot of miles each day you run at rest of it as a rule I always stop every 1:00 or every hundred miles for at least 10 minutes and walkabout even for young people last week young girl 18 died of it coming back from holiday on a plane the chances are slim but why take a chance
Kinelle...............i sit for hours at a time doing my job (Computer ops)....... that has given me a wake up call, deffo make the effort to get up more and just walk down the corridor and back.
thanks for that, glad the person was ok anyway
I have spent 18 hours in the saddle, left Germany at 8 in the morning and got back just after midnight. stops for petrol and the ferry.
so it happens, been there done that.
now a couple of hours will be it and I need to stop fill up and have a walk around.
don't think I will do another long run to Germany like that again.
an over night stop makes life a more interesting
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