throwing up playing sports

prod_igy

firstly, ive posted this in the personal issues forum, and was advised to post it here also, secondly, apoligies for the long post.

anyway, im 21 and i just started back training with my local gaa club. anyway, it was just fitness training indoors in the hall, no ball work, and around the 4th drill i had to leave and go downstairs to the toilet and get sick. The 4th drill!!! now, i know all of ye are just gonna say im unfit, and just need more training, but this goes waaaay back to when i was around 16-17.

I used to be reasonably fit back then when i was 17 (and have been told many times i was one of the best corner backs in the county and the hardest coner backes theyve ever had to mark, and that i was one of the most promising young players at the club and got trials with the county also) and one day, playing a minor game, im not sure how it happened, but i started throwing up and basically left a line of puke from the side of the pitch i was at to the side where my coach was. Ever since that day, i would nearly always start throwing up any time i pushed myself to beat a man to the ball, or anytime there was tough training. And i wasnt unfit back then, because i was usually first when doing laps, or doing sprints. And i thought maybe i wasnt fit, so then i thought if i went to all the training and pushed myself then id be grand. But no, it still happened, yet loads of the guys who i could easily beat in sprints or laps would never get sick!! not only was this really embarassing but i couldnt make it onto the teams anymore, cause it was affecting my performance (basically i wouldnt push myself to beat a man to the ball, cause i would feel that i would get sick if i did, and i didnt want to get sick in front of everyone).

So anyway, i decided to give it a break, and hadnt played for about 2-3years, until i wnt back last year, and i went to all the training(which would have made mary ****ing harney fit as a fiddle!), yet when i went to play the games, i wouldnt be able to last 20 mins without feeling sick everytime i chased a ball etc. and then, due to a bad infection and holidays i wasnt able to go back.

So that brings me to the present day, and i decided i really want to get fit like i used to be, and go back training, but then the typical happened and now i dont know what to think. Like even the fat 30+ junior c guys dont get sick (oh and a further point, once i get sick, im grand and i can keep going, like my body is up to it, and after i got sick the other night, i went back upstairs and finished the training no problem)

So basically im just wondering if anyone else has this problem, or at least knows what im on about or whats wrong with me???

Hanley

Might seem like a no brainer, but have you talked to a doc??

Racing Flat might have seen it before since afaik he coaches athletics.

prod_igy

no i havent, ive always put it down as just being unfit, but am gonna see a doc about it after i see how training goes tuesday and thursday night. Hopefully it was just the usual first session back 'syndrome'.

crotalus667

prod_igy wrote: »

no i havent, ive always put it down as just being unfit, .

I do recall hearing some where that it can happen if your dehydrated

Pherekydes

prod_igy wrote: »

...which would have made mary ****ing harney fit as a fiddle...

Rolling over in bed would get Mary Harney as fit as a fiddle.

Back to the original point: How much, would you say, is in your stomach when you start these sessions? Also, what type of food is in there, if any? There's no need to eat anything immediately before a match or a training session. Especially one where you are going to be going into oxygen debt.

Just some thoughts...

Racing Flat

Not too sure about this one, now if it was blood in the urine...


However, when I was a teenager, I often got sick after exertion, eventually found out it was a hypoglycaemic (low blood sugars) type reaction. Typical teenager, didn't eat breakfast, would go to PE and afterwards would have blurred vision, followed by tingling tongue, pins and needles in fingers, severe headache, and then violent vomiting. Effectively a migraine induced by exercising on low blood sugars. Once I started eating complex carbohydrates regularly, at roughly same time of day, and always in morning (porridge) and in the evening, particularly the 2 or 3 days before competition (brown rice, brown pasta, sweet potatoes) it stopped happening. The explanation given was that for someone sensitive to sugar levels like myself, keeping them regular would solve the problem and fingers crossed it hasn't happened in years now even though I train 6 days a week.

Yours obviously may be completely different as you didn't mention any of the other symptoms I had. But best bet would be to speak to a sports doctor. I'll ask around and look it up and try to get back to you. But there's bound to be other people out there who've had this.

Roper

Mostly the guys who vomit when we're training are really fit guys who've taken a break. What seems to happen is that they push themselves to their former limits and then get a reaction. I, for example, puke when I do a hard sprint session sometimes. I had a lad who has been out injured puke during a circuit the other night.

If it continues to happen, I'd see a doc. It shouldn't be regular.

thirtyfoot

Roper wrote: »

Mostly the guys who vomit when we're training are really fit guys who've taken a break. What seems to happen is that they push themselves to their former limits and then get a reaction.

I've found the same, after a break or people doing a new exercise or training session it happens more. Next time the same session is done its less of a problem. My wife when training heavy would have puked fairly often. The first hill session of the winter is always a puker or a new session on the track with short recoveries will get it going. If its not a medical problem then its probably just a case of the body getting used to it. Also Slow coach could be onto something about food as when I have porridge before a morning hill session I'm fine, anything else like toast or muesli and the stomach can be a dit dickie.

Some famous ballgame pukers down the years include Brian O' Driscoll and Zinedine Zidane so its lofty company.

jdivision

prod_igy I asked you on the other thread what do you drink on the day of training but you haven't answered?
Also other posters, he said on other thread he had beef and roast potatoes etc two hours before training. Wouldn't seem ideal pre-training diet to me.

lolo2

Tingle wrote: »

The first hill session of the winter is always a puker

thats hilarious!

I don't actually puke but definitely feel like it for at least an hour when i go back after a break for at least a few sessions. Its hypoglycemia with me too. (I checked my sugars the last two times i felt like that). I'm not diabetic I just need to eat loads. And like racing flat said its the complex carbs you need. I used to only drink water during training but now I use a sports drink and its not half as bad.

thirtyfoot

jdivision wrote: »

Also other posters, he said on other thread he had beef and roast potatoes etc two hours before training. Wouldn't seem ideal pre-training diet to me.

Probably a bit of gravy in there too, sounds like one of those Clive Anderson endurance programs from Japan that were on years ago. Could be a starting point all right to cut out the pre-game carvery.

prod_igy

Slow coach wrote: »

How much, would you say, is in your stomach when you start these sessions? Also, what type of food is in there, if any? There's no need to eat anything immediately before a match or a training session.

I had dinner about 2 hours before this particular session, and i think i had roast beef and potatoes.

jdivision wrote: »

prod_igy I asked you on the other thread what do you drink on the day of training but you haven't answered?
Also other posters, he said on other thread he had beef and roast potatoes etc two hours before training. Wouldn't seem ideal pre-training diet to me.

The only drinks i ever drink are water, milk, orange/apple juice, tea, coffee, and maybe a lucozade here and there. I'm not a major fan of fizzy drinks, although i do have one every now and then(ie. at most once a week). I drink water maybe 80% of the time, with the rest split between milk, tea and orange juice really. On the day of training id say i only drank water, milk, and tea.

With regards the roast and potaotoes, from now on im gonna watch what i eat, and do as racing flat and tingle said and eat porridge in the morning. Any ideas as to what to eat around lunch time and evening, as training doesnt start till 8?

Im gonna wait and see how training goes tommorrow night and thursday night. Im still apprehensive however because this problem goes back years. And another thing, think i mentioned this on the other forum; when our trainer asked us to check our pulse aroud half way through the session, mine was 180, while everyone elses was between 130-150. When he asked for mine and i said 180 he was quite surprised!?

Oons

hi.
my 17 yr old son has a very similar problem. he's fit, plays football in and outside school; (he's always made it into the school team)goes running, training etc
BUT when he trains or plays Gaelic, he throws up. every time. it is his favourite sport, but he is talking about giving it up because he throws up every time he plays.
he's had training and dietry advice: hints om hydration etc but nothing seems to work.
If you find a solution, please forward it to me for him.
many thanks
Oons

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Doing circuit training I've often felt like puking, some of the lads in the club have puked. But it's not been a regular thing, I'd see a doc if it keeps up.