Serious Question...anyone ever suffered heat stroke?

[MinnesotaFats]

So this was a first. Hiking, about 11 KM round trip, but A LOT of aggressive elevation, to some remote waterfalls, 90 & humid.

I've played 2.5 hour tennis matches in Florida heat, no problem. Sweat pours out, I can feel the body change, I water up, Gatorade Gummi, good to go. Usually a 6 pound water loss.

Today I was literally 40 meters from the exit, exhausted of course, barely moving....and I went down, hard...almost fell off the fukking cliff (300+ feet straight down). Took about 15 minutes, water, a random apple from a little girl that walked past me, a salt thing and I was able to limp to the top...got in car, cooled down. Found a dude w shrimp & Fresca, figured that's all I'd need, but no head was still light.

Weighed myself at hotel, 9 pounds of water weight lost. Wholly shit! Had no fukkin clue. Called home and doc said I'm lucky to be alive, said internals will shut down when stuff gets diluted and/or you have severe dehydration issues. 9 pounds lighter, and that was after the shrimp and Fresca!

Anyone else push themselves like this, in cardio or sport? What is the 'feeling' when you know your done?? I thought I was a dead man.

[NrmlCurvSurfr]

So this was a first. Hiking, about 11 KM round trip, but A LOT of aggressive elevation, to some remote waterfalls, 90 & humid.

I've played 2.5 hour tennis matches in Florida heat, no problem. Sweat pours out, I can feel the body change, I water up, Gatorade Gummi, good to go. Usually a 6 pound water loss.

Today I was literally 40 meters from the exit, exhausted of course, barely moving....and I went down, hard...almost fell off the fukking cliff (300+ feet straight down). Took about 15 minutes, water, a random apple from a little girl that walked past me, a salt thing and I was able to limp to the top...got in car, cooled down. Found a dude w shrimp & Fresca, figured that's all I'd need, but no head was still light.

Weighed myself at hotel, 9 pounds of water weight lost. Wholly shit! Had no fukkin clue. Called home and doc said I'm lucky to be alive, said internals will shut down when stuff gets diluted and/or you have severe dehydration issues. 9 pounds lighter, and that was after the shrimp and Fresca!

Anyone else push themselves like this, in cardio or sport? What is the 'feeling' when you know your done?? I thought I was a dead man.

I was mountain biking, really pushing myself for a couple hours and all of the sudden I started to "white out"...vision just went white..I knew I was about to pass out and literally laid the bike down, like a motorcycle avoiding a crash...I never lost consciousness, but it took about 30 min of slowly sipping water to be able to get back up and ride home...I was on the side of the trail and people thought I was just taking a breather but I felt like I was close to death...

[gauchojake]

**insert gaucho smart ass remark here**

Glad you're ok pal. That's crazy. I've never had that happen to me but you're lucky.

[MinnesotaFats]

I was mountain biking, really pushing myself for a couple hours and all of the sudden I started to "white out"...vision just went white..I knew I was about to pass out and literally laid the bike down, like a motorcycle avoiding a crash...I never lost consciousness, but it took about 30 min of slowly sipping water to be able to get back up and ride home...I was on the side of the trail and people thought I was just taking a breather but I felt like I was close to death...

Yup I started getting jitters, then weak, the dizzy....I didn't wanna stop just because I was so close to the exit, but it was still 75 steps up the hill (mountain steps no railing, etc...and then I blacked out and fell and I guess began rolling towards the cliff (there's no railings or walls in Costa Rica). A mom and her daughter stopped me...the little girl gave me her apple and wished me happy Easter lol...it took me 45 minutes to make the last 50 yards.

[edawg]

Could have been a combination of dehydration and elevation sickness. Some of the military guys ( one was marine recon the other was an army ranger) I used to work with sweared by 50/50 water and orange juice mix and would always be sipping on it.

[BuckyOne]

In summer softball / 100 degree weather / had heat exhaustion / took myself out. Just had no touch with my fingers to throw with. Took some fluids to feel better.

Heat stroke is one step further and life threatening.

Once you go thru it / takes a while to get toughened up again.

You might need to realize you are no longer 7 feet tall and bullet proof?

[Sanity Check]

AFAIK.

Best treatment for sun stroke (aside from a rehydration IV).

Take a shower or pour water over yourself. It will be absorbed through the skin faster than drinking. Which is why people feel so refreshed and hydrated after showering.

[MinnesotaFats]

AFAIK.

Best treatment for sun stroke (aside from a rehydration IV).

Take a shower or pour water over yourself. It will be absorbed through the skin faster than drinking. Which is why people feel so refreshed and hydrated after showering.

Yup took a great semi cool shower when I got to my pad

Fukkin bird shit on me on the street here so will shower again tonite too

[BuckyOne]

AFAIK.

Best treatment for sun stroke (aside from a rehydration IV).



Take a shower or pour water over yourself. It will be absorbed through the skin faster than drinking. Which is why people feel so refreshed and hydrated after showering.

Even just pour cold water on your wrists or put into a bucket of water.

[MinnesotaFats]

Even just pour cold water on your wrists or put into a bucket of water.

I had a bayou all to myself about 3km away from the top. I spent 30 minutes in there naked soaking myself and went shirtless the rest of the way figuring it'd help. Water was low 80s

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Literally middle of nowhere! I thought for sure I was dead then when I started having issues 3 KM away from exit. That I scaled a 400 ft summit over 3km in that heat is a fukking miracle.

Those army guys w the OJ might be onto something. When that gave me that apple I felt a quick burst of energy like never before...like my sugar was that fukking low! Crazy getting old sucks...

[dustyy]

So this was a first. Hiking, about 11 KM round trip, but A LOT of aggressive elevation, to some remote waterfalls, 90 & humid.

I've played 2.5 hour tennis matches in Florida heat, no problem. Sweat pours out, I can feel the body change, I water up, Gatorade Gummi, good to go. Usually a 6 pound water loss.

Today I was literally 40 meters from the exit, exhausted of course, barely moving....and I went down, hard...almost fell off the fukking cliff (300+ feet straight down). Took about 15 minutes, water, a random apple from a little girl that walked past me, a salt thing and I was able to limp to the top...got in car, cooled down. Found a dude w shrimp & Fresca, figured that's all I'd need, but no head was still light.

Weighed myself at hotel, 9 pounds of water weight lost. Wholly shit! Had no fukkin clue. Called home and doc said I'm lucky to be alive, said internals will shut down when stuff gets diluted and/or you have severe dehydration issues. 9 pounds lighter, and that was after the shrimp and Fresca!

Anyone else push themselves like this, in cardio or sport? What is the 'feeling' when you know your done?? I thought I was a dead man.

Damn dude how much do you weigh? It's damn near impossible to lose that much water, even after a heavy workout unless you are extremely obese. Better check the scales.

[MinnesotaFats]

Damn dude how much do you weigh? It's damn near impossible to lose that much water, even after a heavy workout unless you are extremely obese. Better check the scales.

6'2 270 27% bmi

Former Montreal system catcher & d3 defensive tackle. Play men's 4.5 tennis in singles so it's a but of an anomaly....

[MinnesotaFats]

I should add I took thermogenesis pre hike. 2 hydrixicuts

[cincinnatikid513]

probably wanna stay away from bolivia or peru

[MinnesotaFats]

probably wanna stay away from bolivia or peru

Machu picu is on my list. I wanna fukk on it under an eclipse

[edawg]

I should add I took thermogenesis pre hike. 2 hydrixicuts

That is the worst thing to do you are damn lucky you didn't die. You really need 11 days of rest and recovery after stressing you central nervous system to that degree. When you say fukk you to your body eventually it is going to respond NO Fukk You! Be safe take it easy.

[BuckyOne]

Hey, some electrolytes along the way as well. But, listen to your body! Take more breaks. It happened once / it can happen again. The buddy system works for more than one reason.

[dustyy]

That is the worst thing to do you are damn lucky you didn't die. You really need 11 days of rest and recovery after stressing you central nervous system to that degree. When you say fukk you to your body eventually it is going to respond NO Fukk You! Be safe take it easy.

This.

Even with a 26% bmi, 275 is a lot to carry no matter how well proportioned. Not sure of your age but be careful. Many people swear by Hydroxy but it will speed your hear rate.

Take a couple of liters of Aquafina in your pack and you should be fine.

[pavyracer]

Next time take the helicopter ride to the waterfalls. It's much safer to your health.

[MinnesotaFats]

Next time take the helicopter ride to the waterfalls. It's much safer to your health.

LOL not so...ready for this story

So in Vegas Maverick operates chopper tours. I'm out there w my gal Linette, former inked mag girl

We're literally a last second addition to their 2 flights out to the canyon for champaign lunch... like 7 total people.

We land in the middle of fukking nowhere in the canyon...instead of partaking in the lunch we decide to run off and fukk.

Mind you, this is like hours deep in the canyon.

We come back to the lunch spot and everyone is gone. Choppers, food, champaign, all gone.

0 cell service

OH FUKK

we start walking around looking for signs of life...nothing.

So we wonder off and fukk again, then, figuring were going to have to find a spot to spend the night, start looking for something to cover the 1 picnic table with for shelter/ heat

Sunset comes, temp drops....it's fukking COLD out there at night

About 9pm a random chopper sets down, it's Maverick lol. Turns out our 1st captain got a call his wife went into labor. He swapped choppers w pilot 2 because we weren't on the passenger list having been added day of, at like 8am. The 2nd pilot had no idea we existed and just randomly those 2 were texting about the tattoos and jugs on my gal and pilot 2 was like "what the fukk u talking about" and thank God they called their boss to compare logs and came out & got us lol.

We both got a free chopper tour outta that!

[The Kraken]

6’2 270 is a BMI of 35... Anything over 30 is obese.

My BMI is 27, and I’ve seen your pic, you do not have a BMI of 27

And let’s be real, the “270” was likely after the 9lb weight loss

[MinnesotaFats]

Dude I literally did that hand held electrode test at LA Fitness 2 weeks ago.

Unless that's a body fat measurement?

[The Kraken]

Ya that’s bf%

BMI is just a way to correlate height/weight and put it in to a single #

It’s kinda a useless number when used incorrectly but some studies have correlated higher BMI to higher incidence of heart disease and stroke.

I’ve seen plenty of skinny fat dudes with a low BMI and bodybuilders that have single digit bf% have a BMI near 40, so BMI has its limitations

[USCPHILLYGUY]

Fatty take it easy pal. No more 2 rounders rest of trip

[MinnesotaFats]

Fatty take it easy pal. No more 2 rounders rest of trip

Can't think of a better way to cash out lol

[USCPHILLYGUY]

Fatty I hear it cost 6100 colones to go see a doctor in CR

[MinnesotaFats]

Fatty I hear it cost 6100 colones to go see a doctor in CR

Dude, I'm in Tambor now & I'm in love w this area.

You ever been?

So secluded...

I might buy here

[TheMoneyShot]

Damn.... glad you're alive Fats. Typically the hydration issue occurs a day or 2 before the activity? Trace what you were doing a day or 2 before... and were you getting enough liquids then?

[MinnesotaFats]

Damn.... glad you're alive Fats. Typically the hydration issue occurs a day or 2 before the activity? Trace what you were doing a day or 2 before... and were you getting enough liquids then?

LOL definitely traced directly to this and 15 fukkin Imperial beers



I had no fluids left anywhere...what I didn't pass I came lol

[edawg]

Now that is when it is alright to blackout from exhaustion and dehydration!