Recent content by globecanvas

MHCyclist, thank you so much for the info about your diagnosis. It's always good to get more detailed diagnostic info, if it helps even one person. My current "episode" has been going on for about two weeks. I tried walking down the hill with my wife yesterday and had to turn around after about...

Hi all, I was active in this thread back in 2016 when I first experienced this syndrome. At the time I was racing bikes every week. The initial trigger in 2016 was a week off the bike (plane travel, vacation, unhealthy food) after training almost every day for years. I suffered episodes for...

Welcome Matt. You are describing exactly what most or all of us here have experienced. The pain has been described as acid inside the legs, stabbing with knives, being hit in the legs with a pipe. The pain isn't localized, like a muscle cramp; instead it is spread across multiple muscles in...

To me this is the signal of rhabdo type episode rather than a severe cramp -- that it occurs in multiple muscles, in both legs, at the same time. I just got back from a week in the tropics on vacation with the family, the exact same situation that triggered the most severe episode I've ever...

Welcome SB23. How often you you have these episodes? You might be a more susceptible than others if you have to walk down a lot of stairs every day, as eccentric muscle loading seems like a common trigger. Have you ever tried loading up on NSAIDs when you feel an attack coming on, as per this...

Shayne, I'm glad to hear you've got some sort of diagnosis, and I really look forward to hearing what the recommended dietary or other guidance is. My first reaction after reading the list of McArdle's symptoms was similar to those above -- basically, no way. McArdle's is described as a...

Well I dodged a bullet. After the episode set in I double dosed on naproxen for 2 days, and for another 2 days dosed up before any exercise. In between doses my quads were very sore and tender, just as with previous episodes. During that time, whenever I had to walk downhill I would try not...

My last bout with this was 11 months ago. Today at the end of a fairly grueling 3 hour XC ski, at roughly tempo pace (meaning, quite hard for 3 hours), while walking a short distance downhill from the trail to my car, bam! both quads. I was hydrated (carried a camelbak and drank it all) and...

No carbonated beverages here either. The search for correlation continues :(

I have another anecdotal data point to throw onto the pile. I have been riding, racing, and training for years, but these episodes only started last year. The only thing that changed, apart from general aging, is that I added box jumps to my regular training schedule in order to improve...

Ugh I cannot imagine intentionally triggering an episode, and then getting the "reward" of a large sample biopsy. I wish you the best.

I'm really sorry you need to have the procedure and to be honest I feel a bit like you are taking one for the team, if you know what I mean. We will all benefit from whatever information you can gain. Do you need or want to be experiencing an episode when the biopsy is done? Do you have any...

Re: Exactly matches my experience. To me it feels like there's some sort of tipping point, below which you can sort of pedal through the minor cramping (more like hints of impending cramping), but once the pain sets in in earnest, even just spinning easy feels like a genuine risk of rhabdo...

Did you try the double-dose of advil as suggested by dcolvin?

Hey, don't I know you from another forum? :) I don't think you need to worry. A strong common thread through all the reports is that episodes follow a period of time completely off the bike.