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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.
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
That’s fair. Everybody’s body is a bit different I suppose. I would totally be doing more stretches in your case though.
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
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/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1068
Hydration certainly helps but can also be magnesium deficiency, since it’s a muscle relaxant.
or a potassium deficiency.
Stand up as fast as possible and put your weight on that leg.
Physically pulling your toes back (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).
400mg of Mg daily fixes this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How about when abs cramp? Oh how I beg for mercy.
I contend tongue is worse
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…
Me everytime my calf muscle does anything that is any way unexpected: Please Jesus no, please!
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