Hey, I wasn’t quite sure where the correct place to post this was. But does anyone know about the drug albuterol? I had been prescribed it by my doctor and I noticed somethings off today after being forced to take it last night… Hunger, I felt like I had extremely low blood sugar when I was training today, and one heck of a headache afterwards. I find most of that strange since I am actually eating at a surplus.
What did you get prescibed albuterol for?
It is a Bronchodialator/ thus helps you breath, side effects are typicaly high pulse rate, restlessness, and high blood sugar- which may be why you felt like you had low sugar this AM, as you crashed last night.
[quote]Serpentarious wrote:
What did you get prescibed albuterol for?
It is a Bronchodialator/ thus helps you breath, side effects are typicaly high pulse rate, restlessness, and high blood sugar- which may be why you felt like you had low sugar this AM, as you crashed last night.
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I have asthma that is under control. (only on rare occasions does it start to show up from being very very sick or exercise induced) I had gone to the doctor for being sick (apparently a really nasty virus it seems) and a doctor that I don’t normally go to had prescribed it to me and said to use it if I had any symptoms of my asthma acting up. One of my parents who is the type of person who uses medicines for EVERYTHING that it can be justified for, had decided that I should take it because I was coughing from breathing in something basically forced me to take it. It was late last night that it was taken, and all day (it is around six right now) I have felt like this.
You also mention that you’ve been quite sick, training while sick can lead to feeling worse as well. Albuterol’s half life is 3-6 hrs thus making it unlikely that you should be feeling any side effects 24 hrs later, if you still feel bad you should probably call you’re Dr. and stop training until you are healthy.
Albuterol is also used as a fat loss supplement because it’s a beta2 agonist. I think it has thermogenic properties?
[quote]Destamoon wrote:
Albuterol is also used as a fat loss supplement because it’s a beta2 agonist. I think it has thermogenic properties?[/quote]
Not really a thermogenic, but leads to cardiac contracilty / increased heart rate.