Billing nurse recovers after taking the spin lessons of life-threatening injuries

Billings-one billing woman started to get fit in 2025, but a 45-minute spin class had the opposite effect.

The 28-year-old Morghynn Buxbaum was not only taken to the hospital with a rare critical illness for a week, but now has long-term symptoms months later. She hopes to share her story to help others experience the same pain.

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Billing nurse recovers after taking the spin lessons of life-threatening injuries

Buxbaum is a licensed practical nurse and a mother and now a rhubdomyolysis survivor.

Rhabdomyolysis is a rare and life -threatening illness that occurs when dead muscle cells enter the blood circulation.

“With every step I take, it feels like I was going on a knife … I went to the bed and was in tears. I couldn't lie down. I couldn't lift my legs to get to bed,” said Buxbaum on Tuesday.

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In February, Buxbaum took a spin class with a friend. A few days after the class, Buxbaum noticed that the pain became more painful and irregular after training.

Less than a week later, Buxbaum was hospitalized for a week after her injuries.

Morgynn Buxbaum

“(It can be caused by many reasons for various reasons. It can be traumatic, non-traumatic. It can be exhausting, not to be moderate, can be certain medication and infections,” said the hospital doctor at Intermountain Health, Dr. Brandon Weeden.

According to Weeden, rhubdomyolysis is more common in older people. As a 28-year-old, Buxbaum's condition was quite rare.

In his practice, Weeden says that most older patients with rhubdomyolysis were diagnosed after the fall and were immobilized. For young people like Buxbaum, however, it is common to obtain the diagnosis after overexertion during training.

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Weeden says that if you train properly, the muscles can stretch and rebuild. But in Buxbaum's case, part of the tissue has completely penetrated into the bloodstream, which makes rhubdomyolysis extremely painful.

“If you have this cell death in the muscles, all content of the cells will open and go to the bloodstream … Myoglobin, which is part of the muscles, it is released into the bloodstream and then it will be broadcast on Tuesday by the kidneys.”

In addition to severe pain and muscle fatigue, Weeden is one of the most common symptoms of rhubdomyolysis of the dark colored urine, similar to tea or cola.

Buxbaum describes its pain as serious, “multiplied by 100”, painful after training.

Morgynn Buxbaum

“I say to everyone that it was worse than pain in work,” she said.

Now, three months after the hospital, Buxbaum is still difficult to cope with the pain and sore muscles.

“I can do my job, yes, but I feel for lunch. I feel it as soon as I go home,” said Buxbaum.

Buxbaum wants the general population know that rhubdomyolysis is avoidable. It begins with fluid intake, stretching and limits of the training.

“To be able to listen to your body. You know, I thought I was. I thought I would do everything right, and it turned out that I wasn't,” she said.

“Before and after walking to the gym and make sure that you do not overlook yourself (prevents rhubdomyolysis) … is super decisive. Because the hydration enables you to recover and you can rinse your kidneys,” said Weeden.