21 Apr 2011, 1:37 pm
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It could well be peripheral vascular disease if you're already being treated wih BB and statins. I know it costs money, but you should probably get it checked out- if you leave it it can get worse.
i will do as a web doc suggested, and not bike for a week, then i will do as leejosepho suggested and zero-out physical problems associated with riding a bike [i.e, sitting on it while stationary to see if it is the seat- i already know that standing while pedaling doesn't give me the frozen pork like sitting and pedaling has done. if it is a problem with my particular body build [tall and gangly] riding a bike, then i may just have to give up the last exercise i can do out here in the sticks and just get fat. but fat still beats numbnutter.
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Fair enough. But if it still occurs or recurrs, I still think you should probably see someone about it
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That said, how far do you cycle every day? I doubt even a special saddle is 100% numb-proof!
about 2 hours, up and down hills which combines aerobic and anaerobic exercise. i combine this with calisthenics such as pushups and crunches and inverse push-ups. this has made me fairly taut like when i was younger and it would be a beech to have to give it up and lose the physical conditioning i've gained over the past 2 years. again, i reiterate that this regimen only recently caused this problem, within the last week.
Wow, you're way healthier than I am! It may be that you just need to cycle a bit less each day; you could always replace it with swimming or something (I'm not a fitness coach... should probably google it)
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22 Apr 2011, 4:03 am
Lene wrote:
But if it still occurs or recurrs, I still think you should probably see someone about it
the weather outside was just too beautiful today, i could not resist, so i determined i would go out and do some biking. but before i did that, i rummaged through my old clothes until i found a jock strap i had not worn since i was in the 6th grade, several decades back- amazingly i still fit into it normally! this both elated me and depressed me at the same time [guess why?]
thank god for elastic 
anyways, i went out riding the usual but abbreviated circuit, and 99% of the problem vanished. so the jock strap saved the day. i guess my package just was telling me it needed more pampering and protection from the elements. but now i have a stye in my eye, so it's always one damned thing after another, no?
Lene wrote:
Wow, you're way healthier than I am! It may be that you just need to cycle a bit less each day; you could always replace it with swimming or something (I'm not a fitness coach... should probably google it)
thank you
your pics you displayed in another thread, seem to me to also be that of somebody youthful and buff, no? but i had to give up the swimming because i had to move out into the sticks and the nearest lap pool is a 2-hour drive. i used to swim a mile of laps most nights, it satisfyingly worked-off the stress from my [un]civil-service job after hours and enabled me to stay sleek enough to fit into my old clothes. also my shoulders started clicking [arthritis] so my doc said to try a different exercise. arthritis in the back and knees vetoed running again, but bicycling on an upwards or recumbent bike was just what the doctor ordered. i would be glad to do more walking but i can't outrun the nasty uncurbed dogs [or their yahoo human owners] in my neighborhood that way. so biking it will have to be until the biking parts of me wear out also. i hope by then i will just be fit for the grave.
i have cut my biking time by a third, hopefully this will work on all fronts.
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22 Apr 2011, 6:59 am
auntblabby wrote:
... i found a jock strap ...
... but now i have a stye in my eye...
... but now i have a stye in my eye...
Uh ...
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22 Apr 2011, 7:30 am
leejosepho wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
... i found a jock strap ...
... but now i have a stye in my eye...
... but now i have a stye in my eye...
Uh ...
he must've had one kind of headache or another.
22 Apr 2011, 9:53 am
I'm glad you found a solution!
Nah, thanks for the compliment but I think you may be mistaking me for someone else; I don't post pictures of myself here. I had Marlene Dietrich as my avatar for a while though; if it's her you're referring to, I'm sure her ghost is flattered 
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08 May 2011, 12:47 pm
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It's a pity that some chose to ridicule a perfectly normal question. I'm approaching 50 and ride a bike still. I have to say that while I haven't encountered numbness like the one you describe from after a bike ride, there are other postures/situations that would cause a willy to go numb, somewhat like when your legs or arms do the same, I think it's quite normal and probably nothing to worry too much over but, if you have real concerns, go to see a professional rather than an online solution.
thank you squonk
i seem to have stumbled upon a cure when i was digging through some old childhood clothing i had in boxes- i found my 6th grade jock strap and put it on and went riding, et voilà!- cold numbness gone.
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