Sage Canaday hospitalized in Boulder with a pulmonary embolism

do you think he put his #hokas and #drymaxsocks on for the gram? surprised he's not wearing shades holding a beer with the label pointed at the camera. missed opportunity to plug some sponsors, but at least he included them all at the bottom of the post

Just looked up cause and treatment good luck Sage were all here for ya.

Usually, a pulmonary embolism is caused by a blood clot travelling up from one of the deep veins in your body, usually in the leg. This kind of blood clot is called a deep vein thrombosis (DVT). In some cases, the blood clot occurs because of a change in your physical condition, such as pregnancy or recent surgery.

Treatment consists of blood thinners

Prompt treatment to break up the clot greatly reduces the risk of death. This can be done with blood thinners and drugs or procedures. Compression stockings and physical activity can help prevent clots from forming in the first place.

good luck sage

He's had symptoms for a while. Hopefully they can get him treated and back at it. Ultrarunning isn't the healthiest thing in the world (moderate exercise is great for a person, but longer running provides no additional benefit and actually has a negative impact on a person's health. A guy in my running club had a TIA during the Leadville 100 when he was in his thirties. Strokes, embolisms, etc. are a risk when running ultras.

https://www.active.com/articles/hidden-danger-dvt-in-endurance-athletes

Some takeaways from the article:

85% of air travel thrombosis victims are athletic, usually endurance athletes

Hydration level is a factor in DVT. As dehydration occurs, the blood thickens. Thick blood moves slower through the veins.

Best wishes to a full recovery to Sage! PE is a serious health issue and he will probably need to be on blood thinners for treatment. Hope to see him healthy and running strong again soon!

Sage is a figurehead in our sport - and fellow LR poster. Looks like he is on the fast track to recovery, thankfully. While this is a response to a troll post, it might have merit...https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(19)30952-3/fulltext

ganawag wrote:

I'm a doctor and can confirm that it was definitely the veganism

Hope he recovers quickly, that sounds pretty freaky.

Ernest wrote:

Sage is a figurehead in our sport - and fellow LR poster. Looks like he is on the fast track to recovery, thankfully.

While this is a response to a troll post, it might have merit...

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(19)30952-3/fulltext

ganawag wrote:

I'm a doctor and can confirm that it was definitely the veganism

High altitude. Chronic dehydration. Endurance athlete. The above.

One of the many things "life" is, is a mitigation of risk. There are several things which increase the risk of pulmonary embolism.

Hang in there Sage. You got this!

Best wishes Sage ... take good care.

Best wishes on a speedy recovery.

The same CT scan looking for pneumonia can also be used to visualize a PE in many cases which makes me wonder how he got the misdiagnosis in the first place. missing a PE is a nightmare scenario for any physician. iirc sage had traveled around the time the chest pain originally started which is a risk factor for anyone...coupled with the risk associated for endurance athletes and it starts to make some sense (hopefully no other risks factors that were previously undiagnosed). just glad that he was finally able to get a correct diagnosis and is no on the road to recovery. treatment is fairly straight forward and it will likely be considered a provoked event so 3 months of oral anticoagulation at least.

My mother had PE and was in ER 2 different times in 2 years. She took blood thinners for the blood clots-it was in her lungs which made her heart work extra-no fun.

Sage will pull through!

He didn't get a CT scan until he ended up in the ER. He got a chest x-ray which cannot diagnose PE. Oddly enough, there was a physician who posted a comment on his YouTube channel a few days ago that his xray didn't look like it was pneumonia and suggested he get a CT scan...

Damn so that was why his HR was high running 9min pace?

joecrunner wrote:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPljD6nnpCU/

This is serious, but I am hoping Sage being an athlete will give him an advantage in recovery.

Pulling for you, Sage!

I've been holding off the vaccine to see what it does to serious runners and because I have antibodies left from having Covid (very mild case) and he is just the latest in vaccine scares that I've observed. I've seen weeks of elevated heart rate, POTS, nerve damage and blood clots. All in extremely healthy, serious runners who decided to get the vaccine. At this point, you couldn't pay me to get it.

Get Well Sage! We expect you on the starting line at the Pike's Peak 'Thon to battle Seth and the Euro Mountain men.

He probably has insurance, and there's something called an Out of Pocket Maximum. I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the $6-10k range for sage if he's on an ACA plan.

sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:

Holy crap. Hope he is able to recover. I wonder what caused this. Obviously, the cause is usually blood clots but what caused the blood clots. Could a lesson for other presumably healthy runners.

He stated in an older thread that he was out doing volunteer cleanup and spent quite a bit of time cleaning up things along a creek. I believe he said it was cold, dreary and wet that day. As a regular hiker what I can say is that any flowing creek is a hazard. You don't know what might be upstream. It could be a dead animal, or nasty slime. Both are sources of pathogens that get into the water and can get airborne because that's what small germs and spores do in flowing water. Breath that infected air in for a few hours in damp, cold conditions and you're likely to get sick.