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“Toes to noes!” Stretching your foot upward helps prevent it.
Oh God, thank you so much for this
you basically just want to stretch whichever muscle is seizing up. if it’s your calf you want to pull on your toes.
I usually just try and relax it before the cramp hits critical mass. Stretching is always a “it’s stuck” response
Charlie’s not been around for a long time… Since I tripled my magnesium bisglycinate dose (spread out through the day), along with other minerals.
I feel seen.
WE ARE CHARLIE HORSE!
The best way to take care of an unwanted Charlie is to shoot it in the neck.
This fixes it instantly every time for me. Ignore everybody else. When you get that cramp start moving your foot in the opposite direction pointing your toes towards your knee and stretch out the back of your ankle. Instant cramp relief everytime.
If you have cramping often like this then maybe dedicate yourself to some hamstring stretches.
Alternatively, start eating properly and solve the problem at its root.
Similar trick I learned, just get out of bed and stand up on it. It’ll go away in ~10 seconds and then you can hop back into bed. Works pretty much every time.
I once tried it and got a second more agonising cramp
I find this happens to me if I panic and do the stretch too quickly. But if I do it at fast but measured pace it works every time.
My dad told be the trick at a time when I was getting night cramps often and it changed my life
It could be that. I did it very slowly so idk, at least I woke up
That’s fair. Everybody’s body is a bit different I suppose. I would totally be doing more stretches in your case though.
Yeah, I’ve neglected physical health too much recently
This trick has become a reflex for me, to the point where I barely even wake up when I get a Charlie horse in the middle of the night, since I start flexing my foot automatically when I feel it coming on.
Boof magnesium
Quinine, there’s still some tonic waters that have it, and even in the very low dose that they use it’ll work preventatively for a few weeks
no boof sodium
Standing up works every time for me. If I want to remain in bed i try to push the bottom of my foot into the bed as if I were standing on it. It often does the job .
yeah that’s what I do. The method described above you is what causes my cramps sometimes
Yeah I haven’t had good luck with that either.
I only cramp when underhydrated and most people are underhydrated (Drewnowski, 2013).
Make sure we’re all getting enough water before taking further action!References
Drewnowski, A., Rehm, C.D. & Constant, F. Water and beverage consumption among adults in the United States: cross-sectional study using data from NHANES 2005–2010. BMC Public Health 13, 1068 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1068Hydration certainly helps but can also be magnesium deficiency, since it’s a muscle relaxant.
Yes, there absolutely can be a lot of weird reasons your bike is not handling properly. But it’s important to make sure of the basics first: that the tires have air in them.
or a potassium deficiency.
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Stand up as fast as possible and put your weight on that leg.
Now I’m in more pain, angry, and crying (in pain).
Physically pulling your toes back (up and towards the heel) usually works for me
Yeah usually stretching my calf as I feel it happening works. Otherwise I feel it all day.
400mg of Mg daily fixes this.
Time to become a magnesium-based life form
From the moment I understood the weakness of my carbon, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of magnesium. I aspired to the purity of the blessed Mg. Their kind cling to their flesh, as if it will not cramp and fail them.
400 milligrams of milligrams/day. Got it. I’ll mix that in with my extra milk per milk.
It would be milligrams of megagrams per day.
Ah yes, Windows case insensitive users
Not for me unfortunately
yes, have done all the above
Check your blood then. Maybe you have an iron deficit / anemia.
I’ve had it all checked and redo it all once a year. No deficiencies.
You are a professional driver then 😀
I think I’m just getting old and walk a lot without enough stretching. If I stretch every day I don’t have the problem .
magnesium prevents cramps.
I too think it’s magnesium, but what I can actually confirm is that I haven’t had this since I started taking multivitamins. Y’all are vitamin deficient.
Your face is vitamin deficient.
Moreso potassium. Cramps are even often cited as a direct symptom of hypokalemia.
interesting, i used to have a lot of cramps until i started taking specifically magnesium supplements a few years ago. then again, last year i switched out the salt i use for one with more potassium chloride in it so i can’t really do a comparison.
Hydrate!
edit: it’s charlie horse from lamb chop
I challenge you to simply sit there and watch your toes curl. It actually stops hurting if you can just relax and let it happen.
When I used to swim we’d be told to just swim it off. Calf, foot, right above the knee were all things you could kinda dead leg and use the flip turn to unkink, but now and then you’d get a hamstring cramp and that’s when you just sink and stretch. There is no negotiating with a hamstring cramp.
Yeah foot inner arch begins to scream out of nowhere while relaxing, happens once or twice a year since always. Skips a year sometimes. Thanks for others’ advice that’s been posted.
