I really think I might have been eating too much salt. I decided to head back to the pool, neuro said to exercise... I have one good arm... Water it is. Was swimming earlier in the year but hips decided to go out on me.

Anyways I have always been a life-saving floatation device, more unsinkable then Molly Brown. So as usual I skip right into the deep end, bloop... Chill, relaxed... Not surfacing... Hmmm.. Still not surfacing.... Okay running out of air.... Where's the top of the water?

I about gave the poor lifeguard a heart attack... He was starting to get up when I finally swam for the surface. First time in my life I've ever had to swim to reach the surface of the water lol....

I did notice that I got a bit more of a workout than usual too, actually had to keep myself afloat for once, and learned what treading water is really like

Have any other swimmers out there had this issue?

YES!! We're far enough south we have a pool, spent many a happy time in it, alone. with friends, with family. It got not so easy. Used floatation devices. Sank or floundered without one. Don't go in anymore. DD and DS swim like fishes, DD lifeguards at college. I just don't go in water anymore.

Wonderful Starz. I miss swimming..

Have you lost body fat? I've always been very floaty, but I had a guy friend in college who was a serious body builder and he sank like a stone. He only had like 3% body fat. Mine's more like 33%!

Nope, still as rolly poly as I've been growing over the years. Even when my BMI was nonexistent I could still serve as a life raft. Only change was cutting back on salt

Though as odd a coincidence as that is I don't think its really the issue ... But it probably means my muscles are becoming even more spastic. Key to being a good buoy is relaxation, and obviously though I felt relaxed the muscles weren't of a like mind.

But now this puts me in the same boat as the DH, DB, DU and DN they can't float to save their lives, because they do start to sink a little (even I bob down a little bit) they fight to prevent sinking more and shoot to the bottom of the pool like a boulder. Always telling me "See, not everyone can float!" Ah men, what can you do with them?

A long time ago I was able to help the DH float quite nicely, got him relaxed on the top of the water, just chillin, thinking I was helping him to stay afloat, till he noticed I was across the pool, then 'bloop!' He found the bottom