Blood suger levels, dehydration etc...

Chimpster

Hi Folks,

I am on a 10 months plan to lose 8-10 pounds over the next 10 months for my wedding next July. I am currently 13.5 Stone (5ft 9 in height).

I have started doing 3 mile runs twice a week on the thread mill and I play one hour of intensive soccer on a wedensday night.

However I am having one or two issues.

1. Dehydration: No matter how much water I drink in the days leading up to exercise and how much I drink after, I will usually get a pretty intense headache after each bout of exercise. This is not a recent thing, its happened me over the years when I've played hurling matchs etc. In extreme cases it has led to severe bouts of migrane.

2. Blood sugar levels: There is no real pattern to this but every now and then during exercise I get bouts of weakness and dizzyness. This happened last night during soccer nad I was about as usefull as a glass hammer for about 20 minutes. Again this is something I would have experienced on and off over the years.

Anyone got any ideas on how to hel with these issues? I have thought about food alergy tests but I'm not sure about the qualifications of some of the people who carry these tests out?

Any thoughts?

Degsy

Chimpster wrote: »

Hi Folks,

I am on a 10 months plan to lose 8-10 pounds over the next 10 months for my wedding next July. I am currently 13.5 Stone (5ft 9 in height).

I have started doing 3 mile runs twice a week on the thread mill and I play one hour of intensive soccer on a wedensday night.

However I am having one or two issues.

1. Dehydration: No matter how much water I drink in the days leading up to exercise and how much I drink after, I will usually get a pretty intense headache after each bout of exercise. This is not a recent thing, its happened me over the years when I've played hurling matchs etc. In extreme cases it has led to severe bouts of migrane.

2. Blood sugar levels: There is no real pattern to this but every now and then during exercise I get bouts of weakness and dizzyness. This happened last night during soccer nad I was about as usefull as a glass hammer for about 20 minutes. Again this is something I would have experienced on and off over the years.

Anyone got any ideas on how to hel with these issues? I have thought about food alergy tests but I'm not sure about the qualifications of some of the people who carry these tests out?

Any thoughts?

Goa nd see a doctor and get a few blood tests done.Its possible you could be anaemic.If you dont get any possible underlying problem dealt with it'll only make treatment more difficult later on.

amazingemmet

If you keep getting dehydrated even drinking water means you need more salts and electrolytes to help you "hold" the water. Get some of the lo-salt variety of salt and add about a gram of it per litre of drinking water while training and that should help alot

Chimpster

Thanks for the help folks...

Yeah, there must be some reason for the dehyration. I could drink 2/3 litres of water over the day and still get dehyrated during excercise that evening and still have the inconvenience of going to the toilet every hour durinig the day!

I doubt I'm anaemic as I would have a pretty high levels of iron in my diet, big red meat eater but it would be worth checking I guess.

ponygirl

Go to a doctor OP!
Dizzyness can be related to low blood pressure...

Canis Lupus

You might also be getting exertional headaches. Headaches linked with exercise. I get them every once in a while but only normally when doing heavy weights. Also as said above if you're drinking ALOT of water you could be depleting your body of salts etc which is dangerous.

Dizziness... Well, I went running on an empty stomach a couple of weeks ago after having a loooong run with stupidly little food afterwards the night before. I was fine for about 4k then my body went to bits. Sweating, dizziness, weakness etc etc. Had to walk back, no way I could continue running. Simply put it down to not enough food and recovery.


However, if you're concerned and these symptoms occurr all the time then you'll need to consult a doctor. He/she is the only one who can possibly give you proper answers.

Degsy

Chimpster wrote: »

I doubt I'm anaemic as I would have a pretty high levels of iron in my diet, big red meat eater but it would be worth checking I guess.

There are types of anemia which mean the iron cannot be absorbed by teh body.I'm not saying thats what you have,its just something to be aware of.

spaceylou

low blood sugar can cause a headache as well.....so the two problems could be related but like everyone else said - go see a doctor!!!