Endo Flare Ups After Exercise: Need Advice

Swimming, water aerobics, and machines! Swimming and water aerobics are just lower impact which helps a lot. I like machines because you can target the muscle groups less likely to make you flare. I focus on my legs, hips, and sometimes arms, but avoid any abdominal exercise because it will make me flare!

I wonder if the release of cortisol is what contributes to this? I’ve also noticed issues with high intensity. To the contrary, yoga is exceptional at keeping me loose and fluid. A lot of our issues come from inflammation and tight muscles. I loved PFPT but that eventually ends. I think yoga helped prolong those benefits. I stopped doing yoga for a few months and so many problems came back. Now I’m on an anti-inflammatory diet and doing yoga 5 times a week and feeling a lot better. Good luck! There’s lots of great advice here!

Oh yeah. We are delicate flowers. We are meant to walk in parks with our parasols like fancy ladies when we have endo. And I hate it. Usually I can go for walks. But then I have to be careful for how long. Ugh.

I never connected the crazy flare ups after + during high intensity interval running with my endo. Wow. This explains a lot.

Weight lifting helped me a lot! Running and high impact also gave me flares. As others have mentioned, changing to a low inflammatory diet was very helpful for pain and weight. And lifting is more conducive for weight loss as well.

I haven't personally experienced this after a workout but too much physical activity in general creates a flare for me and what has helped me is cutting out inflammatory foods and stretching before and after exercise.

If I’m having a flare and do high intensity it gets much worse! On those days light to moderate helps for me. Also noticing jumping & running really makes it worse so would say stick with more fluid movements. On days when it’s really bad I usually stick to upper body with stabilization so there is less strain around my core or legs to cause increase pressure in the area. And yes I agree with the above- massaging abdomen and psoas helps release some tightness so movement isn’t as painful.