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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If this happens, push the ball of your feet up. The ball of you feet is the front of your foot connected to the toes, helped me many times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

When you're masturbating in bed*

fuck that when you go over the edge and immediately hello pain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Used to get these like crazy. It can be from certain physical activities, poor diet, dehydration etc. My advice would be drink plenty of water, eat Potassium rich foods (bananas, sweet potatoes) and consider magnesium, either by oral suplement or topical (Epsom salts in bath or a product like theraworx directly applied to calf muscles).

My leg cramps completely stopped after I started using the topical magnesium stuff applied every few days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Me: Salty banana eating hydro homie still in fear of stretching too much in bed which will cause the calf or foot cramp.

Foot cramps are worse. Calf cramp pain lasts for days.

The bending or stretching doesn't work if you don't get to it fast enough. There's only so much bending with a muscle so taut Richard Simmons would give it a respectable nod from the afterlife.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Guess i need to donate my dead body to science after im dead. I never had a cramp in the 38 years of my life. shrugs

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That use to happen to me a lot, but I haven't felt that pain in a long time. I started doing yoga regularly which helps, but even without doing yoga, a lesson I learned from yoga prevents that situation in other cases. It's about balance, so when you stretch your feet down, don't stretch your feet down toe first, there is no balance there, stretch your legs down heel first, that way the back muscle is being pulled down and the front muscle is being pulled up with your toe, the two counteract each other and you will not get this cramping.

Seek balance in all things friends, including your muscles while you stretch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

But when it happened to me on the bed I was stretching heel first.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I like the feeling of having cramps. Sometimes I'll deliberately over strain my leg muscles to induce cramps in my calf and feet. Idk it hurts but not in a I want this to stop way. I find it fun stretching them out when I get them. The only ones I don't usually like are ones in my neck from yawning because it's weird to have my face contacted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I can't remember having the cramps in my jaw before, but this year I've had them multiple times. Until now they always last only a split second, but it still feels kinda scary to have muscles in your neck/face cramp up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Who hurt you?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg, don't smoke, drink moderately (1 drink 3 days a week) work out regularly and still get these. The worst is in yoga, when my feet cramp and I can't do something. Calves in bed close second.

I thought it was from drinking or fasting but there seems no correlation. Age, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Could be magnesium deficiency.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently the link between magnesium deficiency and cramps is shaky.

magnesium supplementation compared to placebo for treating idiopathic rest cramps […] Did not significantly reduce cramp frequency

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020016/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I did try taking magnesium- a few times over the years, but it gives me migraines. Like if I take it I wake up the next morning with a migraine. Which is considerably more painful than a leg cramp. Could look for foods with more of it, though, I guess. Good idea anyway, that is plausible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Calcium supplement really helps my leg cramps. I also take magnesium with the calcium, but maybe try just the calcium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It might simply be over-exertion. I get cramps when I walk a lot. Maybe your resting position already includes tension in your calves?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I hate these. Pointing my toes as far up/back as possible (stretching the calf) usually causes them to stop for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Same here. If I'm still too groggy to act fast enough, I instantly regret it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Since I stopped alcohol and smoking I haven’t had a single cramp. It’s only weed nowadays

I used to have all sorts of pains, vertigos and morning numbness when I was heavily drinking twice a week and smoking. It’s such a poison

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't get those. Is it like a genetic thing or has bro not eaten a banana and also something with some magnesium in it for over 3 months?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The comments under this post are proof that Lemmings have shit diets without proper electrolytes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

fr fr I feel like maybe the occasional banana might prevent this...?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Monkey never cramp.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (4 children)

FYI if you ever get leg cramp, completely straighten your leg, and flex your feet upwards, towards your shin. This will stretch your leg muscles and stop the pain almost immediately.

Used to happen to me quite a few times, esp. when being a kid doing lot of sports. Once I was afraid I would drown when getting leg cramp in the pool, but this method saved me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I was apout to suggest this, I get leg cramps semi often and this tip is a life saver.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Just stand up. Pain stops as soon as you put weight on the leg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

For me, that advice is absolutely useless. Now I'm standing, in more pain, that lasts longer.

It's like if you step on shattered glass shards, the solution to your bleeding foot is to then jump in place. I'm good, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Calf overpowered me. Now I'm on tippytoes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

100%. I tried stretching and massaging before and it kinda worked for me but when I stand on it it immediately stops.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

It's all fun & games until your shin muscles start to cramp as well...

I've gotten the Hamstring/quads combo cramp a couple times and falling over, screaming, and not being able to move is an experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Were your cramps so strong you could not control your muscles anymore? Asking about the pool thing. I have often had leg cramps and I retained full motor control.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I just had one last week! Ugh just feeling it tighten until my muscles start tearing is the worst... And then I get to explain why I'm limping at work lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

When I used to get these, the thing that made them stop immediately was standing up. It seems like the last thing you want to do, but standing up and putting all weight on both legs as soon as I felt one coming always did the trick.

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