Does this happen to anybody else while exercising?

[Guest wildpegasus]

I tought it wouldn't hurt to ask this question here and see if anything knows anything.

 

Years ago after working in a bad enviornment one morning I coughed fairly hard for a couple of minutes and than felt a little bit of numbness in my face. Just a tiny bit, not too much. Around the top of the cheek area abouts.

 

It went away and didn't even bother me afterwards but whenever I do really intense exercise I will feel that same numbness in my face. Normal exercise or even hard exercise won't do it but very intense exercise will. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

I also get a problem with my ears after very intense exercise. It feels similar to what happens with your ears when you travel to a higher altitude. Anyone else ever experience this?

[The Czech Republic 0]

walks the line blah blah blah

[Guest wildpegasus]

Whatever.

 

I just want to know if someone's experienced the same thing before and knows what might be happening. I've read a lot of literachure but I'm not familiar with this.

[Sideburnious 0]

Whatever.

 

I just want to know if someone's experienced the same thing before and knows what might be happening. I've read a lot of literachure but I'm not familiar with this.

 

 

I'm not even going to bother.

 

 

 

 

 

Nah I dont know if thats too common. Maybe you are bursting blood vessils or something?

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0]

Numbness after exertion is one of the telltale signs of a brain tumor.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Numbness after exertion is one of the telltale signs of a brain tumor.

 

Been there, done that.

 

Seriously, because I suffer from headaches 24/7/365 1/4 and extrodinary ones at times I had my head checked out before to see if anything was wrong. I think I'm okay but I never did get those results back.

 

Nobody has experienced this before while they're exercising?

[tommytomlin 0]

How do you know you're okay if you never got the results back?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

hypertension

[geniusMoment 0]

This is actually a disease called "NeverHadSexWithAWomanAt29itis". It is extremely rare, but not contagious.

[nl5xsk1 0]

My face gets numb when I'm hungover.

 

You're probably just dehydrated. Drink more Gatorade before/during the work-out, and you'll be fine.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I like how everyone gives serious replies to a gimmick poster.

[nl5xsk1 0]

Is he a gimmick or is he just 'special'?

 

I always presumed the latter, but wouldn't be stunned to find out the former.

[Special K 0]

I think he lives the gimmick, though. He's quite extrodinary.

[Guest wildpegasus]

How do you know you're okay if you never got the results back?

 

 

I don't really know if I am okay or not.

 

Some background info so you know where I'm coming from and how my mind operates which leads into why I don't know if I'm okay or not:

 

Back in 2002 I had a stretch of about 5 months where I had an extrodinary headache. I've always suffered from headaches. I've been told that when I was a kid they used to make me throw up. I had injured my neck and as a result my headaches had become worse. Asprin completely stopped working and didn't do a thing for me. I tried Roboxal to help my neck muscle and it would take away the pain in my neck and my headache level down some but it wouldn't last too long.

After that I tried advil and I was surprised on how good it worked. It allowed me to function for awhile at about 8 hours at a time before I ended up crying like a little baby again when the pain level would once again skyrocket. However the advil too would stop working and the "relief" that it gave me would only last about an hour or so. I pride myself for being tough and at the time I was proud of my ability to go without advil for long painful periods of time. Still, I was up to over 40 advil a week at the time and by than they were essentially useless and causing me rebound headaches.

 

I went to the doctor of course but as usual doctors are never any help. I had gotton vioxx and whatever that drug is that keeps your hands stable from him. They didn't help and really I couldn't feel any effect from them at all. The pain was so bad that I didn't know if I could possibly keep on living. I didn't want to die but I was very worried I would have to kill myself to cease the pain(Watching Chris Benoit matches when I physically could "concentrate" was a major motivational factor in helping me getting through this period). Intense pain does a lot of things to you and some of them are actually good but I had the problem of not knowing when or if my pain would ever cease. If you know the pain will go away in 10 seconds, a day, a week or even a month you got something to look forward to. If you don't when it goes away the physcological pain can be just as tough as the physical pain.

I made some promises to myself (like being able to conquer my fear and get a girlfriend but of course I still haven't done that one) during that pain spell. Some of them I've done;some of them I haven't.

 

About halfway? through my headache spell I got a very bad toothache again. I had a tootache for about 7 years or so but never got it fixed since the government in Canada made it so you couldn't go to the dentist without paying. I didn't want to pay the money since I'm cheaper than cheap and like I said before I pride myself on my ability to live through pain so I never went to the dentist for about 10 years.

 

I ended up getting a (forget what you call these things) to check to see if I had any problems inside my head and as I said previously I never did get those tests back. I hope they're all right but the problem is or was that I was too shy to go after them. "Bothering" people and putting attention on myself in the real world is something that I have tremendous problems with. Shyness and insecurity is the words I'm looking for I guess. This was a very serious situation but as you can see even when I'm dealing with my own life I have a hard time conquering my most inner thoughts.

 

If I was still in extrodinary pain I might've had tried to get those results back. (They were supposed to give them to me) The fact that I did get better (so the need to have the results wasn't as strong) combined with the shyness part of my being didn't allow me to get those test results back.

 

I may as well finish the story I guess.

 

Now how did I get "better"? After not being able to sleep, watch TV, stay in one spot or move (Yeah, I know that's a contradiction) I finally went to the dentist to get my toothache checked out. The toothache at the time was killing me. So they pulled out a tooth out of my mouth but not before freezing my face with some kind of stuff (don't think it was novocaine). That stuff did wonders for my headache at the time but it was only until after I had the tooth removed that my headaches went back down to "bad" level again. My neck pain had I believed dissapated at the time time so that aided me as well. THe funny thing was though that my headache posistion had moved. Usually I had always gotten headaches around my forehead area. Now I had them around my ears and the area above them.

I remember playing Gran Turismo II after that appointment and just being so happy with the world now (the soundtrack means so much to me) that I had been given a second lease on life. So this story has a somewhat happy ending. I believe this was the period right before I starting posting on smartmarks so my ability to fight and crawl through my pain allowed everyone here to either enjoy or loathe my postings. However, I still haven't been able to fofill my promise to myself that I would someday a)kiss a girl and b)have a girlfriend

[Guest wildpegasus]

My face gets numb when I'm hungover.

 

You're probably just dehydrated. Drink more Gatorade before/during the work-out, and you'll be fine.

 

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to do some research on that.