I don’t have calf cramps, but sometimes I’ll be flexing my toes and I’ll feel one start to fire up a cramp, and it’s a fast-paced high-stakes game of Operation, where I keep moving my toe around trying to find the magic relaxation spot, while it sends off more and more alarming pre-cramp warning buzzes. (That may not be a perfect metaphor but I got tired of thinking of board games. I also considered Battleship.)
That funny feeling
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calabast@lemm.ee 5 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What works for me is immediately pulling my foot back in an L shape as hard as I can.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Yeah this. Nowadays I can usually stop it or at least make it way lighter by just moving my foot in the right position again. It has almost become a reflex at this point
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Yeah but to do that I have to stand up or have something to force my foot against to actually bend it.
toynbee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
From what I’ve read, you should avoid using external influences to fix cramps, as they could easily damage your tendons.
Very much not an expert, though.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can just pull my foot back by itself. Must be really bad cramps if you can’t do that!
allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you feel your calf cramping up you should sit up in bed, straighten the troublesome leg, then grab your toes. I think it’s called the seated toe touch.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I like to jump out of bed and put weight on the leg.
That is if my blanket doesn’t trip me.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Someone explained to me that all you have to do is get out of the bed and immediately stand on it and the cramp generally won’t happen or will be much milder. Tested and it works like a charm.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is the correct answer. The first time it cramped, my wife was begginge to stand on it as I massaged it while screaming in agony. The second time it happened she wasn’t home, so I decided to just try what she had told me to do a d poof the pain disappeared.
foggianism@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Take magnesium supplements every now and then to stop cramps from happening.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I didn’t know this was common for other people. I’ve always viewed my capacity to cause what should be a sporting injury from lying in bed as a uniquely personally shameful indictment.
egonallanon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The long term solution is to increase the iunt if potassium you consume.
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yep, most people are deficient.
Starting drinking 500mL–1L of coconut water every day. Cramps are gone forever now. Learn to like the taste if you don’t. It’ll extend your life.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bananas should also work. And magnesium, which is easy to supplement.
Rusty@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Also regular exercise reduces cramps.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And then there’s me, intentionally causing foot cramps to revel in the feeling.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 months ago
c/unpopularopinion
CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Brother, I’ve found my tribe at last
93maddie94@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I got these almost every morning when I was pregnant. Thankfully they only lasted a few minutes (besides a soreness for the rest of the day), but they sucked. I had to train myself to not move my legs in my sleep.
tooclose104@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I don’t get the calf cramps, but foot or ribs. Ribs are the fucking worst because hiw the fuck do you stretch that out?! I can only reach up so high! It’s not fair!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Bend to the sides. Left you bend your trunk left and reach your right arm over your head to the left. Stretches all those side muscles around the ribs and stomach.
tooclose104@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I try this and it sometimes helps, but sometimes the “crunching” side starts to throw a cramp too. I should eat more bananas…
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I get the rib cramps sometimes. Hanging down from a door frame sometimes helps. Just dont rip the door frame off.
tooclose104@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
One of the previous owners of my house believed in rolling dice for how many Brad nails to use. It could contain anywhere from 1 to 100 in the casing.
dukatos@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Take a deep breath and hold it couple of seconds.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Drink water. Fix your shitty diet. Eat bananas or sweet potatoes or other sources of potassium. Take dietary magnesium supplements or use the topical magnesium stuff (like Theraworx foam) on your affected muscle groups before bed.
By doing the above, I went from frequently having calf cramps to never having calf cramps.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
or thigh. thighs are bigger. badder.
ma1w4re@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The best feeling. Sometimes I induce it just a bit to feel that sexy ahh tightness in my calves, there’s really nothing like it.
univers3man@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hello? Police? Yes, this comment here.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I am perplexed by you, but I am glad that you have something that makes you happy.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Best feeling? Calf cramps are horrendous. I’ve spent many nights at tournaments walking the hotel lobby in the middle of the night.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Ooh that’s rough just like that time when you feel like you’re falling.
ARk@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s when you stretch it out more and face your fears
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Friend came limping over one day. Our other friend watched him rolling around in agony for almost 20 minutes.
“Dude! You can stretch it and it goes away instantly!”