Quinine Improves Exercise Intolerance

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SongbirdLove

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A little backround...

About 5 days ago I took Quinine for a couple of days (325mg). Very soon after I took the first pill I notice an improvement in the exercise intolerance
I was walking faster (at a regular clip). I still felt a little tightness but it had improved. Although I stopped taking it after 2 days (for the following reasons) the improvement kind of remained.
The 1st reason I stopped taking it was I wanted to see if the improvement was coincidental (I noticed it starting to get better in about a 1/2 hour) and...
I started to notice a flushed feeling in my head, along with exercise intolerance in my jaw. When I chew something thats a little crunchy or chewable my jaw gets achy and tight. And that feeling does last. This pain travels right into the rest of my head causing headaches etc..Man, I even feel it now and I haven't eaten anything for hours.

In addition I ran yesterday for the 1st time in 3 months. About a 1/2 mile.
It felt so great but the feeling in my head was excruciating. It felt all filled with blood and was going to burst. I kind of have that feeling all the time. I feel it now...only slightly milder. Exercise seems to bring that on as does eating anything remotely "dental challanging".

Anyway my long winded question comes to this. Has anyone experienced that?

Thanks,
Mark
 
Mark, it could be TMJ problems. There is a syndrome called tempero mandibular joint syndrome. It is quite common and is often precipitated by stress and anxiety. Have you noticed if you are clenching or even grinding your teeth at night? Your jaw could have become misaligned. Why not see a chiro or physio and get them to check out the mechanics of your jaw.

Diego4Life
 
Diego4Life,

Thanks, I'm going to check that out. I've heard about TMJ. I do find myself sometimes clenching my teeth. Could TMJ cause headaches and a pressure feeling in the head as well?

Totally unrelated, I just read in the Times this morning that scientists have recently "discovered" (many people have talked about this already) that people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have activated immune systems. Now they've seen that people with CFS show increased numbers of T-cells and other germ-fighting bodies. The significance is that they could detect it and that "it would be a short leap to selecting candidate pharmacological therapies to test in clinical trials"
I'm making a connection to BFS because many BFS people have described CFS symptoms. And in this article the scientists said "The genes appear to induce blood changes symptomatic of a wide variety of disorders, which may help explain why the symptoms of the syndrome are so varied" BFS perhaps?
Anyway it feels encouraging.

Take care,
Mark
 

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