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<blockquote data-quote="Mike 338" data-source="post: 676393" data-attributes="member: 41338"><p>I'm affected by altitude. It starts with the drive up. It starts to feel like a sinus headache. Go to bed and wake up with a splitting headache & nausea. Your large muscle groups ache. Sorta like a migraine. If I charge hard the next day, it can be miserable and so will the next 2 days. If you shoot anything, your packing meat with a migraine. </p><p></p><p>11,000 is high. I've never found a preventative. What I do now, if time allows is just go up 3 days early including traveling. That's all it takes to acclimate. I've heard spending a day or so at mid altitude is a good idea but that seems like a lot of extra work. Set up camp and take it easy. Food, lots of water and as much sleep as I want. Not pushing it right away seems to be important. Symptoms are not nearly as bad if you just relax as you acclimate. If your affected, you won't want to charge up and down mountains anyway. There's no rhyme or reason who is affected. Physical conditioning has nothing to do with it but if your not in shape, you'll suffer from the hunting exertion and thin air on top of altitude sickness. Aspirin or pain killers can be helpful but you'll still feel like crap. Plenty of people have no symptoms at all and are fine at altitude. Don't let all the sitting from traveling bind you up. Take up some bran to keep things moving. I don't recommend eating a pound of cheese on the airplane while your in a forced sitting position for a full day. Nobody talks about it but if your digestive system isn't functioning normally you can add that to the list of why you don't feel good. Take a few mini hikes if your up to it as total inactivity isn't the answer either. </p><p></p><p>Another benefit of going up early is to decompress. Usually the week before a hunt, your scrambling like crazy. Tying up loose ends at work, getting gear together. Your out of your normal routine and then your traveling. Get to your spot and set up camp and get up early and your hunting hard. I like to bleed off some of that stress by loafing for a day or two and getting a good nights sleep before I find myself grinding up and down mountains or packing meat. Your supposed to enjoy it so feel good!</p><p></p><p>If affected, like I said, just go up a little early and get through it in relative comfort where you can lay down if your not tip top and when opening day rolls around, you'll be pert and strong like your old self.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike 338, post: 676393, member: 41338"] I'm affected by altitude. It starts with the drive up. It starts to feel like a sinus headache. Go to bed and wake up with a splitting headache & nausea. Your large muscle groups ache. Sorta like a migraine. If I charge hard the next day, it can be miserable and so will the next 2 days. If you shoot anything, your packing meat with a migraine. 11,000 is high. I've never found a preventative. What I do now, if time allows is just go up 3 days early including traveling. That's all it takes to acclimate. I've heard spending a day or so at mid altitude is a good idea but that seems like a lot of extra work. Set up camp and take it easy. Food, lots of water and as much sleep as I want. Not pushing it right away seems to be important. Symptoms are not nearly as bad if you just relax as you acclimate. If your affected, you won't want to charge up and down mountains anyway. There's no rhyme or reason who is affected. Physical conditioning has nothing to do with it but if your not in shape, you'll suffer from the hunting exertion and thin air on top of altitude sickness. Aspirin or pain killers can be helpful but you'll still feel like crap. Plenty of people have no symptoms at all and are fine at altitude. Don't let all the sitting from traveling bind you up. Take up some bran to keep things moving. I don't recommend eating a pound of cheese on the airplane while your in a forced sitting position for a full day. Nobody talks about it but if your digestive system isn't functioning normally you can add that to the list of why you don't feel good. Take a few mini hikes if your up to it as total inactivity isn't the answer either. Another benefit of going up early is to decompress. Usually the week before a hunt, your scrambling like crazy. Tying up loose ends at work, getting gear together. Your out of your normal routine and then your traveling. Get to your spot and set up camp and get up early and your hunting hard. I like to bleed off some of that stress by loafing for a day or two and getting a good nights sleep before I find myself grinding up and down mountains or packing meat. Your supposed to enjoy it so feel good! If affected, like I said, just go up a little early and get through it in relative comfort where you can lay down if your not tip top and when opening day rolls around, you'll be pert and strong like your old self. [/QUOTE]
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