Drink more water, that's my solution
I feel like drinking any more water will make me become a solution
But on a serious note if you are drinking lots of water but it's coming out as clear piss and you still feel dehydrated you need more
waterelectrolytesAlso space your drinking out, chugging too much in a small amount of time can kill you from water toxicity or the brain swelling
Edit: corrected dangerous advice to proper advice
Took me a minute to figure out the joke
I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice!
If this happens to you, it's time to check your electrolytes! Cramping can be a sign of low potassium. Most healthy people should be aiming for 2g+ of potassium per day.
Popularly known food sources of potassium (like banana and avocado) aren't super great in a pinch. Coconut water, or beverages like Electrolit / Pedialyte, do a better job. For your regular dietary intake, there are lots of foods better than banana and avocado at getting you the potassium you need.
This post brought to you by the fucking awful leg cramps I used to get when eating a low carb diet.
My remedy has always been to eat a banana every once in a while and drink a glass of water before bed.
Bananas aren't that good of a source of potassium considering how much sugar they also contain. A kiwi has more potassium but also a ton of vitamin c, fiber, and enzymes that improve digestion of proteins. If you want a lot of potassium, a medium potato has twice as much potassium as a banana for a similar amount of calories, but from starch instead of sugar.
Potatoes are underrated sources of potassium. One medium potato has 920mg of potassium for 160 kcal.
There's always W.H.O. ORS
Be careful though: Some of them are so tasty, you might end up overdosed, with kidney pains.
They also contain a lot of sugar. Sugar improves water intake for rehydration, but that's not ideal if you're drinking it often. I'd recommend Nuun tablets instead, which only have 1 gram of sugar.
Yea calf cramps are bad but have you ever had chin cramps
I’m scared to yawn bro. Oh my god it’s awful.
Fucking hell FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE THAT GETS THEM! I really thought I was alone as none of my friends ever had it. It get it roughly once a year and yeah it's worse than calf cramps.
I even managed to get an armpit cramp once. Not so fun either.
Only when I'm with your mom lmao gottem
Well I had no idea that was even possible.
I pray for calf cramps, those are easy to deal with. Chin? Fuck fuck fuck no
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.
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.
Just stand up. Pain stops as soon as you put weight on the leg.
100%. I tried stretching and massaging before and it kinda worked for me but when I stand on it it immediately stops.
Calf overpowered me. Now I'm on tippytoes.
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.
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.
I was apout to suggest this, I get leg cramps semi often and this tip is a life saver.
You likely have a potassium deficit. I had cramps all the time until I took vitamin supplements that contain potassium. No more cramps.
Of course you can also just eat healthier and get potassium that way. Supplements aren't necessarily the solution for you.
I have really severe Charlie horses and started potassium when I heard this, it helped slightly but magnesium is what did the trick for me.
Also check out NuSalt, it's a salt substitute that is pure potassium. Way cheaper than supplements, my local grocery store sells a container for under $2.
Well in my case I have those the next dai after drinking a lot of beer. I found out that I get them due to dehydration.
Glad I’m not the only one. This is always a moment of pure terror
I've had ones so severe I thought my tendons were going to snap, waking me up in the middle of the night and I'm screaming and doing sympathy whines pleading for mercy. I have genuine fear of the bed time calf and/or foot cramp.
I've had a couple like that. My wife went and got some salt and told and told me to eat it. Like maybe a 1/4 teaspoon. It was a lot, but it works I swear I could feel it start to relax in less than minute.
See my comment above. Instant relief, always works.
Bend your toes toward your face. Hop put of bed and plant your toes on the ground if you have to, then lean forward, push hard. That stretch will instantly unwind the muscle.
Your brain is going to tell you that's the last thing it wants to do. Ignore it. Stretch.
There, your life is changed.
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.
But when it happened to me on the bed I was stretching heel first.
Near death experience
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
Who hurt you?
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.
OMG i am not alone and people have tips here,
I am so exited for part 2 of my life.
Sackboy ! :D
I miss LBP
Me too :(
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.
Could be magnesium deficiency.
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
The comments under this post are proof that Lemmings have shit diets without proper electrolytes.
fr fr I feel like maybe the occasional banana might prevent this...?
Monkey never cramp.
I get those in my thighs a lot
I came here to comment about how much worse it is in your thigh. Stronger muscles, and you can't easily stretch it out because of that. I've only had that happen a few times and wow is it awful. My sympathies to you.
Yeah its was scary the first couple times. Now just pisses me off because i like to think i keep hydrated and get enough electrolites.
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.
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
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.
Charlie horses are awful. It was hydration for me. When I drink enough water I don't get them
When you're masturbating in bed*
fuck that when you go over the edge and immediately hello pain
I hate these. Pointing my toes as far up/back as possible (stretching the calf) usually causes them to stop for me.
Same here. If I'm still too groggy to act fast enough, I instantly regret it.
I get this all the time. Have your foot angle up towards your head. It'll stop the cramps from happening. Picture standing up and trying to balance on your heels you want that kind of bend at the foot/ankle.
That works. Until you get a cramp in the opposite direction and the same time. It's the 2nd closest experience to child birth I've had. The closest is a cramp stretching from the inside of my foot, up the outside of my thigh, up my back. Nothing but death seems to help.
Countering those movements helps me
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
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.
Most of the time, leg crams are intentional. Not really worried about the few that are unintentional as long as they go away on their own or can be walked out.
Ate shit on an ebike a lil under 30.
The Charlie's horse the night after was fucking BRUTAL!
Wear a helmet lol.
Or when you twist or stretch too suddenly and feel a little something go snap in your lower back, that's when you know yer gonna be using Advil for at least a couple of days.
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.
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
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?
