Recent content by SAL9000

I had another attack two weeks ago. The first since my participation in this thread in the spring. After that event I enjoyed a rich and full season of mountain biking, averaging 4-5x, 8-12+ hours a week from April - October without a single episode, until a few weeks ago, that is. This most...

After the last episode (that precipitated my involvement ITT) I took ~9 days off and limited to significant extent carb intake, and today duplicated the same ride as last week that triggered "the burn." Sure enough, I triggered "the burn" after walking down hill ~50 feet after the first climb...

Compartment syndrome was diagnosed via blood tests and doctors' opinions. I'm not a pro athlete so they did not recommend the pressure test. It just seems a more likely cause than rhabdo in hindsight. The doctors have all said I probably have some sort of genetic predisposition for it all, and...

AFAIK, that was not a common characteristic of previous bouts, but then again they weren't too memorable as they always happened in late August/early September, after 4-5 months of riding 8-10 hours/week, so I just went with the rhabdo diagnosis. This last bout happening in May is new and has...

Hello, all! I similarly registered just to post in this thread. I'm also afflicted in my quads, with the two notable characteristics - the pain is not cramping, spasms or strain (it's just pain) and it's almost always triggered, when the TBD conditions were ripe, by walking downhill (like...