A personal account by Chris Bumstead describing a severe health scare in his early 20s: an autoimmune kidney issue that caused rapid fluid retention (about £15 gained in a day), extreme leg edema, hospitalization, and treatment with loop and IV diuretics. He also recalls a torn lab (lap?) injury eight weeks before an Olympia competition and the uncertainty about being able to compete.
My journey started with something very health related. I had plenty of years of obstacles like an injury before I ever won Olympia. I got really sick and I didn't know what was going on. It was autoimmune to my kidneys so I had this insane amount of inflammation edema in my legs. I put on like £15 in a day and I had like no knee, no ankle, it was just inflamed. Didn't know what was going on. I was put in the hospital, put on loop diuretics, IV diuretics and all such. Get the water off and they didn't know what was going on. I was like 22 years old, terrified from my life at the time, not knowing what was going to go on. I tore my lap one year, eight weeks at the Olympia and I'm like there's no way I'm going to be able to compete. All I could do was, okay, well what can I do today?
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