Hi, guys. I learned a lot from the
backache thread, and I was kind of hoping you could help me with a related
issue. I have been diagnosed with Crohn's disease, which is mild but
still causes severe abdominal pain when I have a flare-up, and this makes
riding a bit difficult, as I tend to "crouch over" to relieve the
cramps. The other problem is that I also tense up, and dear old Toc,
being the sympathetic soul he is, deems it appropriate at that point to go
into rocket-launch mode.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to
possible breathing / relaxing exercises I could use while riding, to help
with this. Obviously, it's easy to avoid riding if I have a cramp, but
if I'm out, away from home, and it suddenly hits me, it would be handy to
have some way of dealing with it.
Yours spasmodically,
Tracey