Yea calf cramps are bad but have you ever had chin cramps
Aaaaah
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SeramisV@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m scared to yawn bro. Oh my god it’s awful.
Blubber28@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It happens to me at least once a month. I’ll yawn more than once in a row and if I’m not careful they’ll get me.
terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Chin cramp gang rise up. U remain the unicorn of the armpit cramp, that sounds agonizing, sorry for ur loss.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only when I’m with your mom lmao gottem
KrapKake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well I had no idea that was even possible.
revlayle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I pray for calf cramps, those are easy to deal with. Chin? Fuck fuck fuck no
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 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.
ngwoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just stand up. Pain stops as soon as you put weight on the leg.
brad_troika@lemm.ee 2 months ago
100%. I tried stretching and massaging before and it kinda worked for me but when I stand on it it immediately stops.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Calf overpowered me. Now I’m on tippytoes.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 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.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 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.
AnomanderRake@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I was apout to suggest this, I get leg cramps semi often and this tip is a life saver.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 months ago
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.
PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
noli@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The real answer is probably to talk to your GP about your issue.
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TIL that it’s called a charley horse in English
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yeah magnesium is another common one that can cause cramps.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
Instructions unclear.
Ate the K and Mg pieces that the Chemistry teacher freshly sliced.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gakomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
SmileyBMM@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
flerp@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But when it happened to me on the bed I was stretching heel first.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve had a couple like that. My wife went and got some salt and told and told me to eat a pinch of it. It works I swear I could feel it start to relax in less than minute.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
See my comment above. Instant relief, always works.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
mysterytoy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Glad I’m not the only one. This is always a moment of pure terror
Fleur__@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
Unreliable@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Who hurt you?
Bartem@feddit.nl 2 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.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Near death experience
SuperIce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The comments under this post are proof that Lemmings have shit diets without proper electrolytes.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
fr fr I feel like maybe the occasional banana might prevent this…?
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Monkey never cramp.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
OMG i am not alone and people have tips here,
I am so exited for part 2 of my life.
cmder@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sackboy ! :D
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Could be magnesium deficiency.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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 measured in terms
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
KrapKake@lemmy.world 2 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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I get those in my thighs a lot
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 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
Rice_Daddy@lemmy.world 2 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.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When you’re masturbating in bed*
fuck that when you go over the edge and immediately hello pain
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hate these. Pointing my toes as far up as possible (stretching the calf) usually causes them to stop for me.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same here. If I’m still too groggy to act fast enough, I instantly regret it.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
dafo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 months ago
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.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 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 a muscle so taught Richard Simmons would give it a respectable nod from the afterlife.
Emmie@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Since I stopped alcohol and smoking I haven’t had a single cramp
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I don’t get those. Is it like a genetic thing or has bro not eaten a banana and something with some magnesium in it for over 3 months?
Chocrates@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Charlie horses are awful. It was hydration for me. When I drink enough water I don’t get them
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Countering those movements helps me
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 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.
shrugs@lemmy.world 2 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
dariusj18@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Drink more water, that’s my solution
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
I feel like drinking any more water mill make me become a solution
x4740N@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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 water
Also space your drinking out, chugging too much in a small amount of time can kill you from water toxicity or the brain swelling
x4740N@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Took me a minute to figure out the joke