RunningAHEAD - Topic: Running on Antibiotics

beef

Ostrich runner

posted: 4/30/2008 at 6:48 PM

I remember that I did years ago and that it wasn't particularly fun, but is there any other reason not to?

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 4/30/2008 at 7:16 PM

Probably depends upon the antibiotic and how you personally respond. I generally don't run into too many side effects, other than some minor tummy issues. Sure beats a respiratory/sinus infection, if that's what you're dealing with.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

joyfull

Eat, Play, Run

posted: 4/30/2008 at 8:28 PM

I'm on antibiotics now (amoxicilin) and haven't noticed a difference in my running.

Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 4/30/2008 at 8:37 PM

Depends on - - which antibiotic - the illness that led to the antibiotic

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

beef

Ostrich runner

posted: 4/30/2008 at 9:11 PM

Sinus infuktion, amoxycillin. The infection isn't too bad, but I start on antibiotics pretty early when I get one because they always lead to lung infections which then compounds my asthma. It's just been one thing after another. Fun times. So now it looks like I'm running that half on 2.5 weeks training.

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Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 4/30/2008 at 9:22 PM

No problem then.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

beef

Ostrich runner

posted: 4/30/2008 at 9:27 PM

Cool, thanks. Now I can go back to my conversation pace until utter exhaustion schedule without worrying about my immune system. Triumph!

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 4/30/2008 at 9:30 PM

(((beef))) sinus/lung infections + asthma suck. I was really sick in Jan. with that sort of crap and was not able to run at all for a solid week, plus some pretty weak recovery weeks after that. I recently went through a bad cold and I started using a neti pot...no sinus infection, so I'm hoping in the future that I can fend off some of those issues (though my lungs are still shot 2.5 weeks later and I'm still a mucous factory...yeck). I was also on antibiotics around Thanksgiving for that garbage.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

beef

Ostrich runner

posted: 4/30/2008 at 9:43 PM

Whatever you do, don't smoke for 10 years. I smoked even when I was running in college, and when I'd get that combo back then it was awful. You'd be surprised how much you can clear out during a track workout after an epi shot though. Neti pots are great too.

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finney

Resident pinniped

posted: 5/1/2008 at 6:10 PM

I smoked for 14 years (3 1/2 years as an ex smoker under my belt though), from the time I was 14 to the time I was almost 28. I probably really effed myself up smoking while I was still developing, but there isn't much I can do about it now that I'm not already doing. I used to get one sinus infection after another while I was smoking. Haven't had one since I quit.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 5/1/2008 at 6:18 PM

My folks were both smokers when I was young and we didn't know the dangers of 2nd-hand smoke like we do now. They smoked in the house and in the car. My mom quit when I was probably 9 or 10 and not long after forbid my dad from smoking in the car and in the house, as that's about when it was really becoming evident that secondhand smoke was deadly. I'm fairly certain that a lot of my issues are due to my contact with cigarette smoke, as my brother and I both have pretty substantial respiratory issues, but our baby sister has relatively minimal sinus and asthma issues. She is 8 years younger than me, so her exposure was minimized a great deal while she was young and developing (though she has smoked some, herself, as an adult--something my brother and I have not done).

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

beef

Ostrich runner

posted: 5/1/2008 at 9:47 PM

I quit about a year ago. As I entered my late 20s I started to feel it, but once I quit I realized that I really had been feeling it for a long time. It took about six months to really clear out, but I don't think I have any lasting effects. I've read some things that say there shouldn't be so long as you quit before you're 35...and that is what I choose to believe.

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Save Cheevers

posted: 5/1/2008 at 10:36 PM

Quote from beef on 4/30/2008 at 6:48 PM:

I remember that I did years ago and that it wasn't particularly fun, but is there any other reason not to?

You squish them.

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