Blood Circulation and Cycling

[Guest Frail4Life]

I have been cycling for over 8 Years.

 

The last Year I have had Two bad VEINS in my legs removed.

 

 

 

Cycling is supposed to help with circulation, why is my veins blocked or suffering with circulation?

 

 

 

How can one strip the veins or flush the veins?

 

 

 

I am healthy, do not smoke or drink.

 

 

 

David

[techguy]

Any exercise helps with circulation, try having a massage once a week, because although you might cycle if you are on your feet all day or sit at a desk all day then the blood pools in the viens as the contraction of muscles moves the blood back to the heart, the heart pumps the blood down to the legs but it doesn't have enough pressure to push it all the way back up...Otherwise put your feet up every evening, higher than your pelvis...

[SeanMort]

David, have you asked your vascular surgeon/specialist for advice ? Your problem could stem from any number of causes I would imagine.

[Azonic]

Last year I had 2 varicose veins fixed up.

 

Its genetic I believe, but cycling allot doesn't help. If anything it makes it worse.

 

[Guest Frail4Life]

OK!

 

Here is some New info.

 

 

 

If you do not drink enough water and eat regularly, you tend to get Blood Clots very quickly.

 

 

 

I tend to be too much on the go.

 

 

 

May skip some meals and not drink enough water.

 

 

 

So I would get Blood Clotting in the veins in my legs.

 

 

 

It has been 8 months since the First vein clotted, seems to have recovered.

 

Second veins is still visible and lumpy.

[bikemonster]

David' date=' have you asked?your vascular surgeon/specialist for advice ? Your problem could stem from any number of causes I would imagine.[/quote']

 

 

 

There's the answer!

 

 

 

The hub can't usually agree on which side is up, so you're asking the wrong bunch. We're OK to ask about bike maintenance, as long as you don't mind elventy-bazillion contradictory answers. We're a bad bunch to ask about health concerns.

 

 

 

Earlier this year I had a superficial (typical!) blood clot. It felt like a deep bruise, and I only had it checked out when it took a long while to get better, and started feeling much worse during a ride.

 

 

 

I did some googling and, like you, the only explanation that I could come up with was that it was related to dehydration. As fit people, I think that cyclists may also be at risk because of low resting heart rates (mine is around 50bpm). In my case, I had just had chicken pox, and I suspect a link, although I could not find anything to back this up. (Any doctors on the hub care to comment?)

 

 

 

Finally, it is entirely possible that being fit has improved your circulation, and you might have had far more serious problems if you were not a cyclist.