Anyone else have problems walking up hills?

[*pixachu*]

I am really unfit, that's for sure, and the lethargy doesn't help.
But recently I've noticed that I can tolerate quite a bit of walking if required - like a day at Alton Towers.... Except where an incline is involved. The sloped pathways at Alton Towers made me puffed out in seconds, but I was fine on a flat walk.

On holiday in Cornwall the walk home from beach was 10 mins walk up hill. It nearly killed me. I could hardly breathe. It's not right. My friend's almost 3 yr old child could walk back with ease.... But you'd think I was coming to the end of a 10 mile hill climb.

I am so embarrassed about it and will ask the doc about it when I go. I'm 40 and do not have anything diagnosed, except mild asthma which I only get when I have a chest infection etc. . And yes I did use an inhaler midway up the holiday hill!

I expect the gp will just say I am unfit.... But i just wondered of any of you have experienced this?

X

[fluffypenquin]

I get a bit out of breath walking up hills, but apparently it is not helped because I am a "shallow" breather. 

However, it is definitely worth mentioning it to your doctor, one of my friends has recently starting having this problem and she has mild asthma - her GP referred her to a specialist and she is currently waiting for lung function tests.  So obviously it is something that needs to be checked out, based on her experience.

Hope you get it sorted xx

[ilove2patch]

Me too but I admit to being unfit, overweight & asthmatic.

[chickengrandma-2008]

Me too, unfit, overweight, old and it's worse with my new hip!!

[ed_blackadder_1]

Me three, overweight, older and a naughty girl a smoker, walked up a hill (mountain) in shropshire last year on holiday it nearly killed me thought my lungs would burst.  Yet walking around normally is fine I walk miles with the dogs.  Maybe we should start a keep fit club

[chickengrandma-2008]

I'm going swimming on Thursday!!!!!  

I'm gonna drown aren't I?!!!

I've been promised the pool to myself, I won't even let my daughter come with me!!!

She has bought me a new cossie three years running, each one a size bigger than the last!! 

Move over Mark Spitz!!  

[**towery**]

pix  it sounds like you need checking out

asthma can get better or worse over the years,  maybe its changing

how are you with stairs?

[captainbovine]

I love swimming......but I'm very self conscious of being fat and I won't go. I've had some horrible looks and comments and it's put me right off.

[bitsnknots]

I'd definitely get it checked Pix.  Hope that everything is alright for you.

As many of you know, I love swimming and go every day.  I don't like down hills but that's due to the fact that I'm arthritic.

[chickengrandma-2008]

My daughter swims a mile every day.

[bitsnknots]

CG, I think your daughter does very well to do so much swimming.  I just do as much as I feel comfortable with.

[chickengrandma-2008]

She has MS books and  the swimming helps keep her mobile, that's why she had the pool built.  The children only go in it about once a fortnight now the novelty has worn off and her husband doesn't like swimming at all.  They've rail-roaded me into using it on Thursday,  I've always managed to come upwith a good excuse  reason why I couldn't go in before. 

[rainydaywoman11]

Norty CG you should be swimming every day to help your hip.  Does it still hurt?

Pix, I am 57 and can still walk briskly round the block (1 mile), all I'm allowed.  However, I was diagnosed with late onset asthma in my late 40s and my symptoms were very similar to yours.  You should also ask your doc to check for an underactive thyroid, fatigue, weight gain (with loss of appetite) and feeling cold are just 3 of the symptoms I remember.

[bitsnknots]

Sorry CG.  I didn't realise that your daughter had MS.  I think that she does really well.  We've no room to put a swimming pool so that's why I go to a health a club.  I find that swimming does ease my joints for a while.  Good on your daughter for doing so much swimming and I am full of admiration for her.

[chickengrandma-2008]

That's ok books.  She's fine actually, so good infact that lots of people she's in contact with regularly don't even know.  She took up salsa daancing and no one there knew.  She rushes here, there and everywhere and never seems to stop.  She changed her diet radically and injects beta-interferon three times a week..

My hip doesn't hurt rainy, never did much.  My feet hurt though, and my legs!!  I'm not allowed to do my legs as in  breast stroke though, never again.  That doesn't sound much fun!  

How are you doing rainy? 

[rainydaywoman11]

Hiya CG - a sorry from me too   I didn't mean to be so sharp.  

I am still in dreadful pain but go tomorrow to see a pain asssessment specialist (whatever that is).  It honestly is never ending, which is why I spend so much time asleep.  I still walk a little bit and do some Pilates, in the hope it helps, but nothing does, and then the tears, oh the tears - God I can't believe that only a year ago I was 'normal' - this horrible, rotten disease.  Then I loathe myself when there are others who have more to cope with than I do.  Fini.

[chickengrandma-2008]

You weren't sharp rainy, no need to say sorry!  Aw, I hope they can do something for the pain when you go tomorrow. Constant pain must be so wearing.   Hopefully the treatment will work and it will all have been worth it in the end. 

[bitsnknots]

Carol, if you fancy a good cry then why not?  Don't loathe yourself.  Hope that you get on alright with the pain assessment.  There's nothing worse than any sort of pain.  (((((((Carol))))))

[stan3502]

Hope they get the pain sorted for you RDW, Miss S sees the pain management team now and finds that at least there is no faffing about with making you try things that they already know will go nowhere near targeting the problem so it's straight on to the good/hard stuff, also no waiting around to be passed between different departments for drugs and physio as all comes under one roof.

Added bonus for her was also no waiting times to go back if things get worse/better needs a prescription or she just wants a chat as one call and she's booked in for the next day.

Hope it's the same at your local hossie

Oh and I also struggle with hills but that's due to weight and arthritis

[mikelayuk]

Definitely ask the doc about it - but yes, it's common to have things that you can do and keep going for a long time, and then something which isn't THAT much more energetic be very hard work very quickly. It's to do with the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Everyone's line is in a different place, but the less fit you are, the lower down it is.