Steve Connally
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just in time for my 46th birthday and a week long ski trip......raging sinus infection and a torn calf muscle during a removal climb. Fml
Happy friggin Birthday
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Grapefruit seed extract and a neti pot. Or squirt it up your nose in the shower. Shake your head hard forward and back to move it to the front sinus and let drain. Use very weak solution.
http://www.amazon.com/Nutribiotic-Liquid-Concentrate-Fluid-Ounce/dp/B000M7OOPS
http://www.amazon.com/Nutribiotic-Liquid-Concentrate-Fluid-Ounce/dp/B000M7OOPS
RopeShield
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Take care Happy Birthday
JontreeHI
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Happy day Steve, take a load off, you deserve it
Magnum783
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- Cheyenne WY
Happy birthday Steve!!!!! Where you going skiing
TimBr
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Happy birthday, Steve! Really sorry to hear about the torn calf muscle; that is a tough one. Zero chance of you giving it a rest and a chance to heal for the week, I presume. Just too much money already sunk into the trip to allow that to happen?
It's a tough choice to make, but sometimes you are better off cutting your losses early, instead of possibly making things worse, and taking yourself out of the game for a longer period of time.
Maybe you could hang out by the fireplace and hit on the injured hot chicks at the ski resort.
Whatever you decide, I hope all goes well, and that you heal up quickly.
Tim
It's a tough choice to make, but sometimes you are better off cutting your losses early, instead of possibly making things worse, and taking yourself out of the game for a longer period of time.
Maybe you could hang out by the fireplace and hit on the injured hot chicks at the ski resort.
Whatever you decide, I hope all goes well, and that you heal up quickly.
Tim
treehumper
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- Ridgefield, NJ
Happy Birthday Steve.
Get well, Steve.
Any other salutations we should include?
Get well, Steve.
Any other salutations we should include?
Steve Connally
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Holiday valley New York. Birthday isn't till next week though but hanks
Steve Connally
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Thanks fellas March 3 is my actual birthday. Lol.
Steve Connally
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Spent the day in the bucket so that helped. Too bad I had to come down 4 times and drag my own brush. Company 660 wouldn't cut so I also had to fell a 48"dbh oak with a 441 and a 28" bar. Then cut it into chunks so the loader could move it. Typical day at the shit show. I'm hoping by the ski trip I'll be able to walk without looking like a cripple. Funny thing is I was moving my leg into position and I felt like somebody hit my calf with a golf club. Outa nowhere! I thought the saw hit me or I nailed a stub but neither happened. I'm beginning to age in tree guy years. Lol
TimBr
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Hey, Steve! Did you move kind of suddenly at the time this pull happened? I'm older than you are, and I'm not a pro arb, but when I was climbing on a fairly regular basis I would get massive muscle cramping at night, especially when I moved my legs too quickly. After what was for me one particularly long, hard day of climbing, I didn't even make it home before all of my legs started cramping up, especially my quads.
Butch from the Tree House forum gave me the answer that made the difference; like night and day. He told me to drink at least two bottles of Pedialyte electrolyte drink per day, as well as eating bananas, which have potassium in them. He recommended drinking one bottle before starting work for the day, by way of getting ahead of the game, but I usually just drank it as needed in the tree, and finished the rest of the two bottles after I was done climbing for the day. The Pedialyte replaces the electrolytes in your body that you lose by sweating.
After drinking two or three bottles of that stuff (usually only two, maybe three on really hot days), and eating a few bananas, my symptoms of massive cramping disappeared nearly completely. Without it, every little sudden move I'd make while resting in bed would trigger a charlie horse, or muscle cramp. Usually in my calf muscles, but also in the hamstrings and the quads. The difference was just amazing.
So, my suspicion is that you might have gotten a really bad muscle cramp due to dehydration, and that drinking the electrolyte drinks might help calm those muscles down, and prevent them from pulling again. The Pedialyte is expensive, but the house brands on the shelf in the baby care section of the supermarket, usually next to the name brand, probably cost half as much, and work just as well.
Powdered electrolyte mixes are also available from Amazon, and cost maybe a third of the name brand pre-mix bottles, but it's more work and doesn't taste as good.
Hopefully I haven't already covered all this in previous threads with you, and I'm not beating a dead horse, here. I would say you should spring for the expensive stuff for a few days, and see if it makes any difference, along with the bananas.
If you do decide to try it, I'd love to hear the feedback on it. Maybe in this thread, since this is where the initial suggestion was made. Thanks for listening.
Tim
Butch from the Tree House forum gave me the answer that made the difference; like night and day. He told me to drink at least two bottles of Pedialyte electrolyte drink per day, as well as eating bananas, which have potassium in them. He recommended drinking one bottle before starting work for the day, by way of getting ahead of the game, but I usually just drank it as needed in the tree, and finished the rest of the two bottles after I was done climbing for the day. The Pedialyte replaces the electrolytes in your body that you lose by sweating.
After drinking two or three bottles of that stuff (usually only two, maybe three on really hot days), and eating a few bananas, my symptoms of massive cramping disappeared nearly completely. Without it, every little sudden move I'd make while resting in bed would trigger a charlie horse, or muscle cramp. Usually in my calf muscles, but also in the hamstrings and the quads. The difference was just amazing.
So, my suspicion is that you might have gotten a really bad muscle cramp due to dehydration, and that drinking the electrolyte drinks might help calm those muscles down, and prevent them from pulling again. The Pedialyte is expensive, but the house brands on the shelf in the baby care section of the supermarket, usually next to the name brand, probably cost half as much, and work just as well.
Powdered electrolyte mixes are also available from Amazon, and cost maybe a third of the name brand pre-mix bottles, but it's more work and doesn't taste as good.
Hopefully I haven't already covered all this in previous threads with you, and I'm not beating a dead horse, here. I would say you should spring for the expensive stuff for a few days, and see if it makes any difference, along with the bananas.
If you do decide to try it, I'd love to hear the feedback on it. Maybe in this thread, since this is where the initial suggestion was made. Thanks for listening.
Tim
Steve Connally
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Tim. I'm not sure that was the case. It was about an hour into the day and not a super strenuous climb. I was having a fairly easy go of it. I appreciate the input though. I do a pretty good job at the hydration thing. Never get leg cramps myself. I just used to get them in my forearms when I did a ton of up and downs dDrt.
Steve Connally
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