Stand up as fast as possible and put your weight on that leg.
My friend Charlie is back....
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Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Physically pulling your toes back (towards the heel) usually works for me
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yeah usually stretching my calf as I feel it happening works. Otherwise I feel it all day.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now I’m in more pain, angry, and crying (in pain).
Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
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). doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1068MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hydration certainly helps but can also be magnesium deficiency, since it’s a muscle relaxant.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Jerkface@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a liopleurodon! A magical liopleurodon!
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
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.
Linken@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Toes to noes!” Stretch your foot upward helps prevent it.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh God, thank you so much for this
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you basically just want to stretch whichever muscle is seizing up. if it’s your calf you want to pull on your toes.
motruck@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is the way.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
My strategy of pulling on my big toe has been working pretty well
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
WE ARE CHARLIE HORSE!
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
magnesium prevents cramps.
tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your face is vitamin deficient.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Moreso potassium.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
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.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re dehydrated
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Is that what that means? I never knew and just grunted at the pain.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ya, apparently “dehydrated” is some new word for “thirsty”.
And now “thirsty” means something totally different.
Jamablaya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yes
dukatos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
400mg of Mg daily fixes this.
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
400 milligrams of milligrams/day. Got it. I’ll mix that in with my extra milk per milk.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be milligrams of megagrams per day.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
One day the crude biomass that they call a temple will cramp, and they will beg our kind to save them. But I am already saved.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You need a little Magnesium
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I need a big magnesium
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t take more than 600mg at once
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I can never remember if it’s magnesium or potassium.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
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.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Bill@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I used to suffer from them regularly as a kid. Just drink water. Thats it, nothing magica… maybe it’s the magnesium as another poster said. But honestly I have never had one since I changed my life and joined the hydro homies.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That’s not just me?!? I have to IMMEDIATELY jump out of bed and stand up and rub my calf or the pain is going to intense.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I feel seen.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The best way to take care of an unwanted Charlie is to shoot it in the neck.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stretching helps. Try to touch your toes every morning. If you can’t reach them, ask someone else to touch your toes for you.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
OMG. Genius life hack. Never even thought of having someone else touch my toes.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
pathwonder@kopitalk.net 2 weeks ago
How about when abs cramp? Oh how I beg for mercy.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I contend tongue is worse
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Horrible, first time I got one I wondered if it’s a heart attack, aneurysm or if I got hit by a bullet or something…
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
…drink some water folks.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Me everytime my calf muscle does anything that is any way unexpected: Please Jesus no, please!
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Chaaarliee
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This fixes it instantly every time for me. Ignore everybody else. When you get that cramp start moving our foot in the opposite direction pointing your toes towards your knees 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.
Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I once tried it and got a second more agonising cramp
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s fair. Everybody’s body is a bit different I suppose. I would totally be doing more stretches in your case though.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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
phenomdeez@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Boof magnesium
Remorhaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no boof sodium
realitista@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
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 .
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
yeah that’s what I do. The method described above you is what causes my cramps sometimes
Flaco_waton@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
This is how you fix a cramp scuba diving - grab the tips of your fins and pull up. Same effect. Works for me too.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
…and learn better finning technique.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Alternatively, start eating properly and solve the problem at its root.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 weeks ago
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.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Foam rolling + active release works better than pure stretching IMO. Also be sure to get your micronutrients in.