Training after glandular fever

[giddey61]

Anybody have any advice or ever had glandular fever?

 

Was recently sick with glandular fever and wanted to know if anybody has had an experience with the virus. If so how long did it take before training again and feeling back to normal? I have also heard that once you have it once it will keep coming back

[King_Crispy]

Anybody have any advice or ever had glandular fever?

 

Was recently sick with glandular fever and wanted to know if anybody has had an experience with the virus. If so how long did it take before training again and feeling back to normal? I have also heard that once you have it once it will keep coming back

Just get back on and ride.

You will probably never get rid of it, so learn to live with it.

When it re-appears again you will just feel tired and lazy. Push through it and carry on.

Quit dopping when you feel that it's back and it passes quicker.

[covie]

Anybody have any advice or ever had glandular fever?

 

Was recently sick with glandular fever and wanted to know if anybody has had an experience with the virus. If so how long did it take before training again and feeling back to normal? I have also heard that once you have it once it will keep coming back

 

I had glandular fever last year, and it sucked can take as much as 6 months to clear up and it depends from person to person. For the first month or two if you ride, just do fun rides, And I MEAN fun rides. a couple of KM's slowly and very chilled, its more just to get out than to train, any hard training can damage your body permanently. Most peoples clears up in about three months, so after 3 months go do one or two hard sessions and pay attention to your heart rate, if its way to high or fluctuates then continue with the fun rides for another month.

 

You have my sympathy.

[Rebound]

Listen to your body. Thats what I learned. I had Glandular Fever and didn't know about it for 2 months and I kept training and racing and it almost ruined me. I was sleeping 16hrs a day and getting sick every 2nd week. Smartest thing I did was take 6 weeks off with no exercise. Then built up slowly starting with 3 20km rides in the first week and built it up for 2 months until I was back to normal training load. When I was sick the glands in my throat became super swollen and I judged whether I should ride or not on how swollen they were and if they were. If they were very sore when I pressed on them I took a day off. Just take it slow and don't try and push through it. I did that and I was on 4 sets of antibiotics in 3 months...

[Stray Cat]

Anybody have any advice or ever had glandular fever?

 

Was recently sick with glandular fever and wanted to know if anybody has had an experience with the virus. If so how long did it take before training again and feeling back to normal? I have also heard that once you have it once it will keep coming back

hey dude, yeah glandular fever is a bitch, I have had it 6 times during the last 8 years. The first 2 times I got it I was in bed for at least 3 weeks. Thereafter I was K.O for for just under a week!!

You have to be super careful, because like Covi said, it can mess up your body if you train whilst you are sick!

The best advise I can give you is to just chill for two weeks and get back into it slowly and DO NOT push yourself to much in your first 2 weeks of training! Also speak to your doc about vitamins, I used to take neurobian tablets (vitamin C) and slow mag tablets, that helped the most, but it takes about a month to kick in!

 

All the best pal

[Trelawney]

You have my sympathies too !

 

I got Glandular Fever just before my 18th birthday (they don't call it the kissing disease for nothing !) and it flattened me like the person above, sleeping 16 hours a day, totally wiped out. I recovered after about 2 months and then went and did a long cycle, 24 hours later it was back and I was flattened for another month. It almost ruined my exams at that stage of my life.

 

I then went to varsity with it a thing of the past (no symptoms in previous 4 months), joined the university hockey team, trained my guts out and got flattended again with it. My neck glands also swelled up and I could feel that lethargic feeling just radiating out of my neck all the time.

 

Keeping off alcohol I have come to realise is important and, then drink loads of water everyday, it really helped bring the symptoms down for me if I put a pint mug next me when I work and constantly sip & refill. Put up with more frequent toilet trips, its worth it.

 

I also found that I felt worst when I drank hot liquids (tea / coffee / soup etc) and so I stopped all that as well when I had symptoms.

 

You'll have to find out what works for you.

 

So any advice around taking a COMPLETE BREAK I would go with.

 

I am one of the few people though that got it recurring for life, very few people I speak to ever had a recurrence but I have been flattened a number of times in my life and I am now 47. What I found was that if I did huge amounts of exercise (really tiring myself out) and I did it with a cold or virus in my system and, worst still, when the weather was really cold, that I could get the symptoms back again. Not as bad as when I first had it but never the less it screwed up the next 2-3 months.

 

Over the years I have asked every doctor I've ever visited as my GP for advice and they always seem surprised that it re-occurs, having little idea on how to handle.

 

A possible break through came for me when I described the above pattern to my current GP who said that if exercising when a cold / virus is happening or has just happened in the recent past is a reason why symptoms can kick off (irrespective of whether I cycled) then I should work to improve my immune system. His advice which I have now followed for the past 4 years was to have an 'intragam' injection at the start of each winter (during April) .. he uses it and hasn't been ill for 20 years, all his nurses / nursing sisters use it too and claim great success with reduced illness levels. Plenty on the web about it.

 

Since starting it I have hardly been ill and sore throats that appear usually disappear in a day or so, completely different to my previous experience of going down every 3-4 months with something nasty. So I suppose I just had a crappy immune system from day 1.

 

I am now doing more exercise than I have ever done in my life, riding long MTB rides (up to 100-120km) and having an absolute ball. I still listen to my body though ... if I get a cold starting up, my glands can react pretty quick, so I back off until the glands go down, these days that's about 2 days instead of my previous 2-3 months experience.

 

As I said, you have my sympathies ... statistically though you should not have my experience of best part of 30 years having it recur !

 

If it does recur, perhaps chat to your GP about the Intragam injection.

 

Take it easy,

 

T.

Edited June 5, 2011 by Trelawney

[giddey61]

Thanks for all the advice. Going to try rest until I feel atleast half normal and then try go back into cycling slowly. It REALLY sucks though!!!

[Trelawney]

Thanks for all the advice. Going to try rest until I feel atleast half normal and then try go back into cycling slowly. It REALLY sucks though!!!

Just wondering how you faired ?