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You’re dehydrated
“Toes to noes!” Stretching your foot upward helps prevent it.
My strategy of pulling on my big toe has been working pretty well
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
it happens to me so infrequently that i don’t usually catch on to what’s happening until it’s too late 😅.
basically ruins my whole week every time. makes me paranoid it’ll happen again any second. then it doesn’t. then i forget. then i relax. then it gets me…
It’s a liopleurodon! A magical liopleurodon!
BLUE UNICORN
Hey, Charlie. Hey Charlie, wake up!PINK UNICORN
Yeah Charlie. You silly sleepy-head, wake up.(Charlie wakes up and looks at the two)
CHARLIE THE UNICORN {Groans}
Oh God, you guys, this had better be pretty freaking important. Is the meadow on fire?BLUE UNICORN
No Charlie. We found a map, to Candy Mountain. Candy Mountain, Charlie.PINK UNICORN
Yeah, Charlie, we're going to Candy Mountain. Come with us, Charlie.BLUE UNICORN
Yeah Charlie, it'll be an adventure. We're going on an adventure, Charlie.CHARLIE THE UNICORN
Yeah, Candy Mountain, right. I'm just gonna, you know, (puts his head down and closes his eyes) go back to sleep now.(Blue unicorn flips onto Charlie’s back and starts bouncing on him)
BLUE UNICORN {Jumping onto Charlie’s back}
Noooo, Charlie. You have to come with us to Candy Mountain.PINK UNICORN
Yeah, Charlie, Candy Mountain. It's a land of sweets and joy...and joyness.CHARLIE THE UNICORN
Please stop bouncing on me.BLUE UNICORN {Still jumping up and down on Charlie}
Candy Mountain Charlie.PINK UNICORN
Yeah! Candy Mountain!CHARLIE THE UNICORN
Alright, fine! I'll come with you to Candy Mountain.
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.
WE ARE CHARLIE HORSE!
The best way to take care of an unwanted Charlie is to shoot it in the neck.
I feel seen.
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.
Foam rolling + active release works better than pure stretching IMO. Also be sure to get your micronutrients in.
Edit: I should clarify this is intended for maintenance, not in the moment relief of the cramp.
This is how you fix a cramp scuba diving - grab the tips of your fins and pull up. Same effect. Works for me too.
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
That’s fair. Everybody’s body is a bit different I suppose. I would totally be doing more stretches in your case though.
So like one a day?
Yeah, I’ve neglected physical health too much recently
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Now I’m in more pain, angry, and crying (in pain).
You need to get up quick because it will be harder the longer it lasts. Once standing firmly on the ground, lean slightly forwards to shift most of the weight to the front of the foot. It never failed to help me.
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.
Magnesium is definitely a part of the conversation. It helps neurofunction and muscle signaling, along with cell metabolism. It helps quite a few processes in the body. I wish I remembered more of the processes specifically so I could be more accurate! Most electrolytes have some very important roles, including calcium far beyond building strong bones.
One of many reasons I take multivitamins! Difficult to be too low on most anything that way. … and it supplements my poor diet choices…
that’s my thought as well, the pills make me invincible
Hydrate!
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.
edit: it’s charlie horse from lamb chop
