What can cause rhabdomyalysis?Rhabdomyolysis: Causes and Risks

[Bartholomew]

Okay, but people can and have died from kidney failure from rhabdomyolysis.

 

[Gale]

Think of how many chaacter you burned when you were running up and down those stairs!

I think you actually did more than 11 lights Gale...didn't you go all the way down and then all the way back up...thats 22 flights, if you total them all up.

actually i started at 15, went down one, up two, down 16, then up 11, so that's a grand total of 30. But i don't think i over worked my muscles too much... least i don't think so, it was a little tough but i hope i won't be dying of kidney failure any time soon...

 

[misskitty]

No doubt of that if they felt the need to provide documentation of what it is, how it is caused, and what to do about it.

 

[misskitty]

Still...30 is a lot of stairs Gale.

Do your legs still feel like jello?

 

[misskitty]

You got a great work out I'm sure of that!

 

[Bartholomew]

I think the rhamdombyolysis only happens when you really severely overwork your muscles. I don't think it would happen from just ordinary exhaustion... otherwise it would be more common.

 

[Moonbear]

I think the rhamdombyolysis only happens when you really severely overwork your muscles. I don't think it would happen from just ordinary exhaustion... otherwise it would be more common.

I was laughing. I had one of those Law and Order shows on tonight (well, all the various shows seem to be on tonight) and on autopsy of a victim, they were talking about rhabdomyalysis. I just thought it was funny, because it's not usually a topic that comes up in every day conversation, so I laughed that I heard it discussed twice in the same day.

No, it wouldn't happen from ordinary fatigue. You'd have started cramping up and giving up climbing stairs before that happened. It's something that might be more likely to happen when you truly reach muscle exhaustion, like if you were shipwrecked and trying to tread water and had to keep going no matter how exhausted just to fight for your life. Animals that have been found caught someplace that died struggling to get free would have rhabdomyalysis. You really wouldn't push yourself that far unless you were in a life or death situation.