A with Olympic Swim Champ Megan Jendrick – Exercising with injuries; is there anything you can take?
Megan, I’m a big fan of running but over the years I started getting some really bad aches and pains after an injury. I took to taking some advil or Tylenol to help me through it, and it worked well for awhile, but it seems now I’m still getting pains when I exercise. I don’t want to take more and more pain meds, so I’m curious if there’s anything else I can take? And when this happens to you, do you swim through the pain? Thanks, Miranda Mission Viejo, CA Miranda, While I think it’s great you didn’t want to take a break from running, I think it may have been the best thing to do right after you injured yourself. Without a mention of exactly what kind of injury you suffered it’s difficult to make suggestions, but for the most part it’s always better to rest and heal than it is to continue on. When you push through physical pain like that—not just normal training pain from muscle stress—you risk further injury. I also suggest not masking the pain with medicines because, as you’re unfort
