Living With HAFE
As some of you might know, being at high altitude can cause problems (and even death) for people. The begining symptoms is called AMS (basically altitude sickness). When we slept at 4000M I had a headache. This scared me as there was already a couple that turned around when the woman started puking and had bad headaches. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to finish another trek. Luckily, the next morning, the headache was gone.
Going over the pass we saw a bunch of people suffering. I had a small headache, someone else was clearly dizzy, I heard reports of someone puking, and my friend Luke couln’t put a sentance together for 30 min on the way down.
Unfortunatley it seems that I have a “condition” which I will be bringing home with me. It seems I picked up HAFE while going over the pass. The clinic says there was nothing that could be done, however being at lower altitudes should help. Well I am in town, and the HAFE has not gone away yet. It seems like I might need to suffer through this “condidtion” for the rest of my life 😦
The Wiggen's Travels 
is this a joke? i’m sharing a tent with you!!!!!
shannon - October 24, 2008 at 8:50 pm |
Kevin, I am so sorry. There are products that can help though: http://www.under-tec.com/index.php
Mast - October 25, 2008 at 7:46 am |
Instead, we should be looking at products for the rest of the group on the Incan Trail
shannon - October 25, 2008 at 8:07 am |
I can’t imagine your HAFE could get much worse! Haven’t I been living with it already???
Susan - October 27, 2008 at 6:06 pm |
That would explain it if Wiggen were born in Nepal
Drew - October 29, 2008 at 12:38 pm |