Problems with nausea while trad climbing.

Tradiban wrote:

Don't forget water too, I rarely meet someone who drinks enough water.

That's def not the problem lol.  I almost had a heat stroke at my trad spot last June and since then I've been crazy religious about drinking water (to the point were I almost always have to take a piss right after I rope up lol).

Scott McMahon wrote:

This has actually killed me the last couple times.  Either from anxiety or my awesome neighbors throwing a party.  I'd stop every 10 feet to retch.  haha

So have you started a thread about undead FAs? I mean with all the women FA threads lately you should standup for your own kind.

Christopher Smith, you need to:

1. Give up climbing
2. Get on some run-out scary RX routes and actually puke to find your threshold and probably move it
3. Eat some tums
4. Watch some wild game field dressing videos pre climb, purge and go 

Select the appropriate actions until symptoms subside. Good luck............. ;)

This used to happen to me whenever I did limit climbing. Don't really know what stopped it, but it doesn't happen anymore. 

John Barritt wrote:

Christopher Smith, you need to:

1. Give up climbing
2. Get on some run-out scary RX routes and actually puke to find your threshold and probably move it
3. Eat some tums
4. Watch some wild game field dressing videos pre climb, purge and go 

Select the appropriate actions until symptoms subside. Good luck............. ;)

Lol 4 totally wouldn't work on me.  I have an iron gut for just about everything else.  I don't puke watching videos of field dressing game, which I have done because I have attempted hunting once before (just missed my one and only shot on a doe).  Also fuck doing the spicy R/X runouts.....I can't deal with that crap unless it's like 5.5 and below or a chimney lol.

There are a few activities that bring on the puking. Usually somewhere between aerobic and anaerobic. Rowing events, bicycle track racing, running the 800, 200m butterfly, and hard climbs of certain styles. I've had it happen on offwidth once or twice and a hard thin splitter one other time.

Find the routes that illicit this response and do lots of them. It's really the only thing that will help.

The advice about core exercise and aerobics might be a waste of time and might improve your climbing. Either way, it won't help the nausea issue. 

Brian Carver wrote:

Ditch alcohol, caffeine and weed. Spend a lot of time on grades well below your limit.

Probably unrelated.

Grades below the limit won't do anything. Difference between jogging and sprinting.

Brian Carver wrote:

Ditch alcohol, caffeine and weed. Spend a lot of time on grades well below your limit.

Without the weed it will make your muscles do that much more work because you won't be floating.

Brian Carver wrote:

Ditch alcohol, caffeine and weed. Spend a lot of time on grades well below your limit.

Happens with or without alcohol or weed.....caffeine is the only one of these factors I haven't fiddled with.

Christopher Smith wrote:

Happens with or without alcohol or weed.....caffeine is the only one of these factors I haven't fiddled with.

Caffeine is nothing to fiddle with........... ;)

John Barritt wrote:

Caffeine is nothing to fiddle with........... ;)

I see what you did there

Well I went out yesterday and finally got the send on that climb.  I placed at my waist and it made a world of difference.  I flew up the climb so quick on lead that nobody even got their damn phones out to take pics before I was past the crux and whooping and hollering that I had the send lol.  I think overall this is going to be a huge confidence booster for me knowing that I'm getting better with the possibility of bigger falls on gear.