..(taking deep breath).. cough, cough

roger89 said:

When I ride for sometime, and take a deep breath, I cough. Is this normal? Usually this happens in the middle of the ride or after. Is this sign of tiredness?

Thanks.

Id say it's a sign to see your doctor, cycling should not make you cough no matter how tired you are.

zaskar said:

Id say it's a sign to see your doctor, cycling should not make you cough no matter how tired you are.

Yeah. But try one day, cycle sometime or when ur tired, take a DEEP breath, fill ur whole lungs.. see if you can. If not u'll cough. I can't, I'll cough. Anyone having same problem?

roger89 said:

Yeah. But try one day, cycle sometime or when ur tired, take a DEEP breath, fill ur whole lungs.. see if you can. If not u'll cough. I can't, I'll cough. Anyone having same problem?

I sometimes get a tightening of the diaphragm after an extremely hard effort, which gives me the sensation that I should cough when I try to breathe too deeply. The tightening goes away soon after I've had a chance to relax a little and re-establish a controlled breathing rhythm.

Does your's stick around for a longer period of time or cause any pain?

Could be asthma. Try the doctor like someone else mentioned. Doctor will have you ride, then try again after giving you asthma medicine. If you do better after the medicne.... Any problems climbing stairs?

Frenchyge, I think you got the same thing as me. I only cough when I take deep breath. The tight sensation and tickling at the diaphragm. Mine will go away after a few hours after ride. No pain actually.

I found this site

Looks like I may have exercise-induced asthma.. nooo...

tfstrum said:

Could be asthma. Try the doctor like someone else mentioned. Doctor will have you ride, then try again after giving you asthma medicine. If you do better after the medicne.... Any problems climbing stairs?

No problem climbing stairs sir. I can climb hills [img]cyclingforums.combiggrin.gifOpen ↗[/img]

roger89 said:

Frenchyge, I think you got the same thing as me. I only cough when I take deep breath. The tight sensation and tickling at the diaphragm. Mine will go away after a few hours after ride. No pain actually.

I found this site

Looks like I may have exercise-induced asthma.. nooo...

Well, well... they have a name for everything, don't they? :p

Mine doesn't take hours to go away. I only get it after one of those "Oh my God, I'm gonna die!" type of efforts, but as soon as the tunnels, lights, stars and heavenly music starts to fade, so does the tightening in the chest. 😄 It's never caused me any issues with riding.

should I see a doctor? or it's not that bad?

roger89 said:

should I see a doctor? or it's not that bad?

It'd certainly be a good idea to have it checked out if it's affecting your riding to that extent. If it's a form of asthma then he may be able to prescribe a treatment that might help you out. It could also be something else entirely, like pneumonia or some type of infection that you don't know about.

Damp days, bad air quality days, high pollen count days...a few times after those I might have a bit of a throat tickle but not a complete cough. The only other times that I notice one is after a really hard effort like a 40k TT. Even then I only get a bit of a tickle the next day or so.

If it's bugging you go get a doc's opinion. It would psychotically suck to have an asthmatic condition and not realize it until you find yourself on the ride with conditions that set it off.

Allergies, asthma, long intense efforts, pollution, ACE inhibitors, off the top of my head all can cause cough.

What I found most interesting watching the RAI Giro coverage post race interviews is in the third week every guy they interviewed would get about 3 words out before coughing several times, then a few more words, more coughing...

Anyone who says hard rides won't cause a full blown cough hasn't done one. It usually takes a couple hours of near threshold effort for me to get ratty lungs, as I call them, when the lungs themselves are irritated from the volume (and contamination) that has gone through them. I imagine that irritation can progress and provide an avenue for infection if there is no time to recover, hence the third week coughing interviews.

[quote="mises"]coughing...

Anyone who says hard rides won't cause a full blown cough hasn't done one.

Hard rides will not cause a full blown cough. asthma,allergys, pollution or some other lung infection will. he should go see a doctor instead of relying on a cycling forum for diagnoses.

roger89 said:

Yeah. But try one day, cycle sometime or when ur tired, take a DEEP breath, fill ur whole lungs.. see if you can. If not u'll cough. I can't, I'll cough. Anyone having same problem?

When i had a slight case of asthma i did cough after riding.

He should certainly see a doctor, preferably one who also exercises frequently, but long hard rides can cause a cough in the absence of any underlying medical condition. From what I have read micro-particulates and/or drying effects of pumping massive quantities of air through the lungs are the suspects.

zaskar said:

cycling should not make you cough no matter how tired you are.

Climb a 1000m hill, hard, in cold air. Take a 5min break at the top, then breathe in really deeply. If you don't get a really strong tickle in your lungs that makes you want to cough badly, well, then I'll eat my (rather smelly) shorts.

It will be different for different people I'm sure, but for me, after a hard climb, especially in cold air, it's uncomfortably to take deep breaths for a while afterwards. A good, gradual cool down routine will go a long way to solving this problem, especially if the air is not too cold.

Cheesy said:

Climb a 1000m hill, hard, in cold air. Take a 5min break at the top, then breathe in really deeply. If you don't get a really strong tickle in your lungs that makes you want to cough badly, well, then I'll eat my (rather smelly) shorts.

It will be different for different people I'm sure, but for me, after a hard climb, especially in cold air, it's uncomfortably to take deep breaths for a while afterwards. A good, gradual cool down routine will go a long way to solving this problem, especially if the air is not too cold.

Well eat your shorts im a climber not a cougher. perhaps the air is dirty where you are or you have asthma etc.

roger89 said:

When I ride for sometime, and take a deep breath, I cough. Is this normal? Usually this happens in the middle of the ride or after. Is this sign of tiredness?

Thanks.

The best thing you can do is go with your doctor; in the worst case he will said that you don´t have to worry about your cough ... because you are fine.

Good luck. Regards.

Marcelo

mpm said:

The best thing you can do is go with your doctor; in the worst case he will said that you don´t have to worry about your cough ... because you are fine.

Actually, that's probably very nearly *best* case, just behind having the cough go away completely on its own.

frenchyge said:

Actually, that's probably very nearly *best* case, just behind having the cough go away completely on its own.

Sorry, my problem is to think in spanish and to write in english using the same statements that I use in spanish

Regards

Marcelo

PS: my english is very bad