I used to get these all the time and now I don’t. Hydration and nutrition works wonders.
If you’re getting these regularly I’ve found more potassium in my diet helped a huge amount.
Also more water, with your potassium.
Potatoes are better
Reminds me of the English folk song on which Kelis based her hit “Milkshake”:
🎵 My potato brings all the Irish to the Yard
They’re like, the famine is hard
Damn right, the famine is hard
I could feed you, but you’ll have to starve 🎵
Magnesium, for me.
I don’t get these often, but when I do, trying to point my toes at my chin often helps. Very occasionally that doesn’t feel right and I know to point my toes the other way before I pay for making that choice.
If the bedclothes are tight or heavy and I’m under them, they can be used to hold the foot in place until the moment passes. Or until I have to get out of bed to writhe around or try something, anything else.
I don’t remember the last time the toe pointing thing didn’t work though. Maybe I just don’t get really bad ones.
Yeah, I get these every few months or so, and at this point when I feel one coming on I’ll automatically start pointing my toes up before I even fully wake up and realize what’s happening. That nips it in the bud before the pain starts, and I can go right back to bed.
We were always told to pull our toes up for calf cramps and it does work really well. It’s just that doing it can feel quite painful at first until the relief comes.
I always find that punching them helps the pain go away faster
I dislocated the meniscus of my left knee while sleeping few weeks ago.
Interesting. This has never happened to me
Oh look at this individual with all their potassium and hydration.
Fuck you. (Not really)
I do be eatin bananas tho
And drinking that water
Do some leg curls and calf extensions and drink no water for the rest of the day, or, better yet, drink a few glasses of wine before bed.
You will experience this in all it’s painful glory.
Eh. I’m good. Thanks though
I’ve had a piece of rebar go through my calf and I still think these hurt worse than that…
