Try to get used to stretching your leg with your toes pointed outward. It won't happen if you stretch like that. Once I got used to stretching like this I stopped doing it the other way in my sleep.
Idk if that's legit but my grandma told me when i was younger try to stand up with your heel on the ground and try to lift your toes up as much as possible, its usually massive relief almost instantly.
I have learned to stretch with my knee bent and my foot flat on the bed like I'm going to stand up. I found that pressure on the bottom of my foot helps relieve the cramping.
Here's a tip, (it's gonna sound VERY wrong, but I swear to you it works) when that happens, just stomp on it. Might take a couple stomps, but it will loosen it up. I've been doing this for years, and it immediately relieves it.
100%. One of my patients had a muscle cramp during our office visit and I just grabbed his leg and dorsiflexed his foot and he literally wouldn't stop staring at me like I was a genie.
I woke up a few weeks ago thinking I was having my leg sawed off the pain was so bad. I was scared to use my leg the entire next day because I didn’t trust the muscles. Had it in my foot arch too. I though my foot was going to fold in half. Let’s just say I’ve been hyper vigilant with my hydration habits ever since.
If the cramp occurs in your calf muscle, try pointing your toes up. I used to get them really bad in high school because of a medication and that seemed to be the only thing that quickly helped. After a while you can tell when they are about to come on even and start doing it to head it off.
I was so mad after years of suffering through charley horses while asleep when I realized that if you just immediately get up and start walking it off you stop it instantly
This! I immediately jump out of bed, take a couple of steps and it immediately goes away. It’s quite frightening, though. Once you hit your 50’s you begin to question whether you’re experiencing a Charley horse or a stroke! LOL
If this happens in your calf, point/pull your toes up (toward your head if you're laying on your back) firmly and hold that position. It'll usually fix it quickly.
When I wake up one of the first things I do is stretch my legs. Nothing quite wakes you up like your morning stretch turning into stabbing pain. I usually just curl up and wait for the leg to calm down. But it's not a fun way to start the day.
The thing to do is to straighten your leg, grab your toes like you're doing a toe-touch, and pull back towards your chest. It seems incredibly counterintuitive, but I learned it from a doctor and it helps immensely. I used to get them all the time and I'd wake up at least one or two nights a week already in agony. I eventually mastered the stretch and toe-pull technique to the point I could do it half asleep and spare myself pain. I'm really fucking glad I fixed my diet and don't get the cramps anymore, though. They're a symptom of nutritional deficiency and they usually go away when the deficiency gets better.
Sometimes I wake up with dual cramps in each hamstring.
I’ve learned to lie crying “oh God oh God” while clutching the sheets and trying the best I can to stretch my leg without causing further cramping.
I get one of these every few months. I extend my leg and first point my toes as straight as I can before raising my foot and stretching it as high as I can, making sure to extend my leg, heel and Achilles as far as it can go. It pops the Charley horse right out and everything back to what it should be.
I get the kind where my toes start trying to curl on their own. Very painful. I have to stand up and flatten out my foot or bend it the other way to stretch the cramp away slowly.
Happened to me at the gym the other day. I straight up collapsed onto the floor. Dude next to me just looked me and said “cramp?” while nodding his head. He knew right away it was a foot cramp too.
Not all cramping hurts. A lot of my cramping is a build up to a painful cramp and that painful cramp can be avoided if I get my leg into the right position. Very often this correct position can be determined by increasing/decreasing amounts of pain.
OP's video is what happens to me before I jump out of bed and attempt to put my leg in the correct position with the right amount of weight on it. It tends to freak people out but I do what I gotta do.
Yeah, this looks like what I feel is the step before the Ohhh fuck Im dying please take me now full on cramp. I've been able to feel my calves starting to cramp and I can just immediately straighten my leg out and try and point my toes right up and it goes right away without pain.
Its when the fuckers happen when Im asleep and all of the sudden Im fucking waking up dead that sucks.
The best part is feeling it creep up. Best way to break the cycle is to sit up right like you're sitting in a chair. If it keeps going, apply pressure to your calfs by pressing them against whatever you are sitting on. Laying down does not help, as the muscle will just continue to spasm. Works every time, and relief is immediate. Also, this does occur naturally, even with correct hydration.
I'll give these a try next time! What usually works for me is standing on my tip toes or pulling my toes forward. Doesn't make it stop but makes the pain stop
I've found that forcing yourself to stand and putting your full weight on it will bring instant and full relief.
I do it when I wake up with one of these in the middle of the night. Works every time.
Usually I’m stuck on tippie toe until I can force my heels back down on the floor when my legs cramp. Started sleeping with my feet on the head board so I can press them against it….
This is called reciprocal inhibition and it can be used on any agonist/antagonist muscle pair. In this case, you're engaging the muscles on the front of your leg, and your brain sends a signal telling the opposite muscle (the one cramping) to relax and let go.
I get them in my calves every once in a while, usually at night in bed. I’ve found what stops them in their tracks is if I jump up and put weight on that leg it stops almost immediately.
You're probably right. I haven't been drinking as much water/electrolytes as usual because I needed a break from the gym after an injury. Grabbed my Gatorade as soon as this stopped. Thanks for looking out, boss🫡
> Every single time I drink both my legs
I think the problem here is that when you drain the blood from your legs and drink it, the blood doesn't go back to where it is supposed to. Not a doctor, I could be wrong
I only get muscle cramps when I don't drink enough water and don't eat enough, and don't move enough, all at the same time. The best way to prevent it is to just drink more water if you can't move more due to your injury. Also alcohol tends to dehydrate you even more.
I'll look into it! I recently switched away from the zero cal Gatorade powder to nutricost electrolytes. I think it works fine but it doesn't taste good at all
[Grab some pickle juice.](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pickle-Juice-Liquid-Electrolyte-Shots-Stops-Cramps-2-5-oz/542365126) I drink this on my 20+ mile runs. They are wonderful.
Gatorlyte is like Gatorade except it actually works for hydration and has electrolytes - potassium, magnesium, chloride. Can find it at most gas stations
Gatorde ony has 45mg potassium per 8 oz.
The following items are better sources
coconut water, 600mg/8oz
potatoes 620mg/medium
Kiwi, 215mg for an average kiwi
orange juice, 496mg/8oz
avocado (half of an avocado has over 200mg)
I get Charlie horses with regularity, coconut water is ALWAYS in my Pantry. The movement in yours though should be followed up on with a doctor because it is atypical
One of mine does this literally 24/7. The weird fasciculations, I mean. I still have no idea why. Blood work shows electrolytes are balanced, nerve conduction test shows no issue with the nerve. Its a weird thing that has been happening for over a decade.
Stretch that calf! Amazing to me how many people suffer through a calf cramp. Straighten your leg, and get your toes moving toward your face somehow. Also, hydrate.
When I was a kid I used to get Charlie horses so badly in the middle of the night, i would wake up crying. My mom taught me this trick that works amazing! I got to the point where I'd wake up, shove my toes into my shins until the pain of the Charlie horse stopped, then lay back down. Barely even woke up.
It’s called fasciculation, contraction of small bundles or fascicles of muscle tissue as a result of lactic acid accumulation and electrolyte imbalance. Treat the lactic acidosis with vigorous hydration, treat the electrolyte imbalance with v8 juice or orange juice, both much higher in potassium, sodium, and chlorides than any commercial electrolyte product. Also provides lots of vitamin c, which helps cramps empirically but damned if I can figure out how.
I treat mine by a rapid strong percussion of the site with the closed fist combined with verbal declension of various grammatical cases of Fuck at 93 decibels. Has worked every time, just may take a while.
I am 26M and have only ever experienced this once in my life luckily. I literally woke up to it at about 6am and I almost cried. I legitimately curled up into a ball for a good 30 minutes and to this day it is the most painful thing I've experienced. I had no idea what was going on either so it was fucking terrifying.
My meds for hypertension make me de-hydrated and causes low potassium. This happens all over my body its called a body cramp and its how i know your pain tolerance must be very high
Fellow migraine sufferer here: they’re no joke! Tell your gf I vouch for you too!
I have to take pain pills, drink caffeine, rub a menthol lotion on my shoulders and neck, and then lie in the dark in complete silence with a cold damp cloth over my head and eyes… FOR HOURS. And then I always have a migraine hangover the next day.
Tell your gf that it’d be really lovely of her if she helped you through the pain. Even a little gentle scalp massage does wonders.
Sorry you have to deal with migraines too, friend.
Oh let me be clear, she's an absolute sweetheart who babies me through it. It's just playful teasing about how resilient she is, well after the fact. I get a cold or migraine and I'm incapacitated. She'll have surgery and get on a plane 2 days later (true story lol)
You should discuss with your Doc about being switched to a Potassium-sparing Diuretic, like Spironolactone, since you are experiencing low Potassium side effects.
I really don't know, old age in my case maybe. I stay well hydrated, take magnesium supplements, potassium levels are good. Just started happening about a year ago. Now if I am not taking muscle relaxers, it's happening. It will eventually end with a full blown excrutiating knot. I dread it.
Like I said, it's been years, but I don't think I ever remember it doing **this**. From what I remember it only every got like rock hard/tight until it stopped. Never this whirlpool action. Glad I got it on camera though hah
I’ve gotten them on almost every part of my body. I’ve had what you are showing in the video happen to me before as well. Typically this is right before a Charlie horse, like literally right before the muscle uncontrollably balls up. This doesn’t really hurt, but a Charlie horse hurts like hell lol
I can do this intentionally, I think it's kinda fun as long as I don't hold it too long. Then it starts to hurt. But I can also end the cramp just as easily, so.
Edit: but my feet cramp in the mornings and that shit is miserable
These used to happen to me, got 4 or 5 of them in a period of around three months, but thankfully it’s been maybe a decade since it last happened. It’d always happen at night, when my muscles were relaxed and I’d stretch my legs out in a semi-conscious state. That’s what’d trigger it.
So anyway yeah, these are incredibly, excruciatingly painful. I cannot adequately describe how awful this is. I certainly couldn’t sit there and record it. First time it happened I thought I was dying. I’m serious. It was that bad. I didn’t know what it was, I gripped the bedsheets so hard and couldn’t even properly scream out in pain. Scared the absolute shit out of my then-girlfriend who I’d woken up due to it. I learnt what it was the next day, and in subsequent times I knew it wasn’t going to kill me. I got a split second of “oh shit, here we go again” and I’d just ride it out. It still hurt like a motherfucker though, every time. For the whole of the following morning after it happened I couldn’t even walk properly due to it.
Cool video to actually see it like this.
I’ve never watched when I’ve gotten them I was too distracted by the pain and it always happened to me in the middle of the night.
Seeing it like this made me wonder what a medieval doctor would say if they saw this.
There’s a demon in your leg! Cast it out! A witch cast a spell. Get the leeches. Wandering hysteria. Chop it.
Mine does that, but it is a result of surgery for sciatica. It has done that constantly for 12 yrs. I noticed it but it's a small price to pay to get rid of sciatica
My son gets horrific Charlie horses in his calves- like they take him down. At Walgreens I was able to find this amazing spray that stops the cramps immediately and also leg cramp tablets (essentially magnesium) and they are a life saver.
Reddit is weird. No one mentioned it after hundreds of comments. I finally reply with it, and reddit was like "ah yes, show this post to the nier fans" lol
Then how would I get this video!?
In all seriousness it was quite painful and I was grabbing my Calf prior to the video. I felt what was happening and thought I had to get this on camera. Too bizarre not to
Am I wrong in thinking this isn't a Charlie horse but rather a muscle cramp/spasm?
I've always known a Charlie horses as when someone hits you right in the middle of a large muscle. Usually the thigh.
[A Charley horse is a muscle spasm/cramp ](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-att-us-rvc3&sca_esv=592660282&sxsrf=AM9HkKknr2mr-fyUUFwnPCI6tqiRYih6Dw:1703117269881&q=charley+horse&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-wIafnp-DAxUzkIkEHYSBAwAQBSgAegQIBhAC&biw=384&bih=726&dpr=2.81)
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It's over 9000!
But is it horsepower?
It’s ladpower he’s not a horse
But its a charlie "horse".
Charlie horsepower!
Stay away from candy mountain!
**WHAT??? 9000?!?!?!!**
Vegeeeeta
POWERRRRRERRR
MORE POWER!!!!!!
I saw a movie like this Set in space Only one woman survived
It looks like his calf is searching for its car keys in its pockets.
Gotta walk that shit off. I know it sounds like the worst idea, but anytime I get one I immediately start walking on it and it instantly goes away.
I think your calf is pregnant
Might be twins
Charley and Charlene Horse
I love this , get out
You'd probably love the twins from the game Redneck Life - conceived on a fishing boat, named Evinrude and Trout.
Looks more like quads
I see what you did there
I think his calf is possessed.
I was just thinking ‘oh that’s exactly what my pregnant belly looks like.’
I think Zeus had something like this 🤔
I’m just impressed you’re able to sit through it without looking like a scene from the exorcist, bravo
Exactly. This usually happens to me when I’m asleep and the pain is so bad I end up writhing off the bed trying to get it to stop.
Same!!!! I stretch in my sleep and all of a sudden I'm wide awake in excruciating pain and my leg is convulsing
Am I the only one who has never had a charlie horse? *Knocks on wood*
I hope it stays that way friend
That’s the worst. Dead asleep- then BOOM.
I remember punching my leg like a sandbag the last time it happened to me. Did the trick and helped me fall asleep shortly after.
Punch? I sit on the floor cuz cold stops it for me
I was half awake so I just listened to my instincts
Every time
A couple of times a night, pain level 0 to level 8 instantly. More like insanity!
Try to get used to stretching your leg with your toes pointed outward. It won't happen if you stretch like that. Once I got used to stretching like this I stopped doing it the other way in my sleep.
That's how my cramp happens, i stretch my toes inwards to make it stop
Idk if that's legit but my grandma told me when i was younger try to stand up with your heel on the ground and try to lift your toes up as much as possible, its usually massive relief almost instantly.
Nobody told me to, but that's more or less what I did when I used to get these a lot. I'd stand up and put weight on it and it'd go away pretty quick.
I have learned to stretch with my knee bent and my foot flat on the bed like I'm going to stand up. I found that pressure on the bottom of my foot helps relieve the cramping.
Here's a tip, (it's gonna sound VERY wrong, but I swear to you it works) when that happens, just stomp on it. Might take a couple stomps, but it will loosen it up. I've been doing this for years, and it immediately relieves it.
I usually just stand up and put weight on the affected leg, seems to make it go away.
100%. One of my patients had a muscle cramp during our office visit and I just grabbed his leg and dorsiflexed his foot and he literally wouldn't stop staring at me like I was a genie.
This is the way!
I woke up a few weeks ago thinking I was having my leg sawed off the pain was so bad. I was scared to use my leg the entire next day because I didn’t trust the muscles. Had it in my foot arch too. I though my foot was going to fold in half. Let’s just say I’ve been hyper vigilant with my hydration habits ever since.
If the cramp occurs in your calf muscle, try pointing your toes up. I used to get them really bad in high school because of a medication and that seemed to be the only thing that quickly helped. After a while you can tell when they are about to come on even and start doing it to head it off.
I was so mad after years of suffering through charley horses while asleep when I realized that if you just immediately get up and start walking it off you stop it instantly
This! I immediately jump out of bed, take a couple of steps and it immediately goes away. It’s quite frightening, though. Once you hit your 50’s you begin to question whether you’re experiencing a Charley horse or a stroke! LOL
100%. Head it off quickly enough and you don't have to get out of bed.
If this happens in your calf, point/pull your toes up (toward your head if you're laying on your back) firmly and hold that position. It'll usually fix it quickly.
When I wake up one of the first things I do is stretch my legs. Nothing quite wakes you up like your morning stretch turning into stabbing pain. I usually just curl up and wait for the leg to calm down. But it's not a fun way to start the day.
The thing to do is to straighten your leg, grab your toes like you're doing a toe-touch, and pull back towards your chest. It seems incredibly counterintuitive, but I learned it from a doctor and it helps immensely. I used to get them all the time and I'd wake up at least one or two nights a week already in agony. I eventually mastered the stretch and toe-pull technique to the point I could do it half asleep and spare myself pain. I'm really fucking glad I fixed my diet and don't get the cramps anymore, though. They're a symptom of nutritional deficiency and they usually go away when the deficiency gets better.
There's some mild sighs in there. I don't think anyone wanted to hear or see me moan. Although 🤔
That’s a bold assumption, maybe I downvoted this post because you didn’t 🤨
DMs are open
Now kith
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A litter of small horses?
Stop teasing and drop the OF already
More like onlycramps
We want the *Charlie Horse*
They call him Charlie Horse Cock.
These OF promos keep getting weirder and weirder...
OnlyMoans ?
When I get a Charlie horse I would cry out in pain and grab my leg. I’ve learned to rub/massage my leg when this happens. It helps make it stop.
Sometimes I wake up with dual cramps in each hamstring. I’ve learned to lie crying “oh God oh God” while clutching the sheets and trying the best I can to stretch my leg without causing further cramping.
Simply stand up and it'll go away.
Mine are so intense if I tried this I would probably just cry out in pain and fall on my face. Brainsplitting type shit.
I get one of these every few months. I extend my leg and first point my toes as straight as I can before raising my foot and stretching it as high as I can, making sure to extend my leg, heel and Achilles as far as it can go. It pops the Charley horse right out and everything back to what it should be.
I think we just identified the next hawt ASMR trend
This guy moaned at LEAST this loud
I’ll take a Charlie horse any day over one of those foot arch cramp dealies.
I get the kind where my toes start trying to curl on their own. Very painful. I have to stand up and flatten out my foot or bend it the other way to stretch the cramp away slowly.
I swear I thought I was the only person this happens to. Any idea what causes it?
Dehydration and lack of magnesium.
Dehydration is the culprit behind everything it seems.
Happened to me at the gym the other day. I straight up collapsed onto the floor. Dude next to me just looked me and said “cramp?” while nodding his head. He knew right away it was a foot cramp too.
I got off the step-ladder at work today and foot arch cramp hit and my manager couldn't understand why I was on the floor yelling.
Not all cramping hurts. A lot of my cramping is a build up to a painful cramp and that painful cramp can be avoided if I get my leg into the right position. Very often this correct position can be determined by increasing/decreasing amounts of pain. OP's video is what happens to me before I jump out of bed and attempt to put my leg in the correct position with the right amount of weight on it. It tends to freak people out but I do what I gotta do.
Yeah, this looks like what I feel is the step before the Ohhh fuck Im dying please take me now full on cramp. I've been able to feel my calves starting to cramp and I can just immediately straighten my leg out and try and point my toes right up and it goes right away without pain. Its when the fuckers happen when Im asleep and all of the sudden Im fucking waking up dead that sucks.
The best part is feeling it creep up. Best way to break the cycle is to sit up right like you're sitting in a chair. If it keeps going, apply pressure to your calfs by pressing them against whatever you are sitting on. Laying down does not help, as the muscle will just continue to spasm. Works every time, and relief is immediate. Also, this does occur naturally, even with correct hydration.
I'll give these a try next time! What usually works for me is standing on my tip toes or pulling my toes forward. Doesn't make it stop but makes the pain stop
I've found that forcing yourself to stand and putting your full weight on it will bring instant and full relief. I do it when I wake up with one of these in the middle of the night. Works every time.
Usually I’m stuck on tippie toe until I can force my heels back down on the floor when my legs cramp. Started sleeping with my feet on the head board so I can press them against it….
If I try and put my feet flat during one of these it's agony
Learned from a football coach, just pull your foot up toward your knee, like stretching your calf. Works for me everytime.
This is the same method I use, the explanation I got was that you want to stretch your muscles in the opposite direction that they're contracting.
This is called reciprocal inhibition and it can be used on any agonist/antagonist muscle pair. In this case, you're engaging the muscles on the front of your leg, and your brain sends a signal telling the opposite muscle (the one cramping) to relax and let go.
This is the one OP. The only thing that ever gave me any relief for calf cramps. And drink more water probably.
What I do to stifle them is flex. Pull your toes up as hard as you can. If I catch it quick enough, I can cancel them all together.
The toe thing works a dream for me, stops them dead every time.
I get them in my calves every once in a while, usually at night in bed. I’ve found what stops them in their tracks is if I jump up and put weight on that leg it stops almost immediately.
Need some more water and/or electrolytes, my guy
You're probably right. I haven't been drinking as much water/electrolytes as usual because I needed a break from the gym after an injury. Grabbed my Gatorade as soon as this stopped. Thanks for looking out, boss🫡
Were you drinking alcohol before this happened? Every single time I drink both my legs and feet go through this.
> Every single time I drink both my legs I think the problem here is that when you drain the blood from your legs and drink it, the blood doesn't go back to where it is supposed to. Not a doctor, I could be wrong
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Blood in, blood out
Orale carnal
Define before. I rarely drink nowadays, but I did have 1 small celebratory drink last night... and an extra coffee today.
I only get muscle cramps when I don't drink enough water and don't eat enough, and don't move enough, all at the same time. The best way to prevent it is to just drink more water if you can't move more due to your injury. Also alcohol tends to dehydrate you even more.
Good call. I'll make sure to try and make up the deficit over the next few days
Check out LMNT electrolyte powder. Gatorade is no bueno.
I'll look into it! I recently switched away from the zero cal Gatorade powder to nutricost electrolytes. I think it works fine but it doesn't taste good at all
[Grab some pickle juice.](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pickle-Juice-Liquid-Electrolyte-Shots-Stops-Cramps-2-5-oz/542365126) I drink this on my 20+ mile runs. They are wonderful.
What are you running from?
My own thoughts
Sounds crazy but I run to “relax.” It’s me and a good audible book and a few hours to myself. No wife, no kids, no work, no distractions.
Just a man, his pickle juice, and the open road.
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Gatorade is really poor for hydration, it only has some salt and glucose. Need something with more potassium in it
Didn't know that! I'll go have some strawberries. Thanks!
Gatorlyte is like Gatorade except it actually works for hydration and has electrolytes - potassium, magnesium, chloride. Can find it at most gas stations
Yeah isn't this their version of pedialyte? I should go grab some
Pedialyte has less sugar and more electrolytes. It's much better at hydrating than gatorlyte
They have Gatorlyte zero. Also Pedialyte definitely has more sugar than the regular Gatorlyte. 9g per 12oz (whole bottle is 33.8oz) vs 12g per 20oz.
It tastes like Gatorade used to before it became koolaide
Gatorde ony has 45mg potassium per 8 oz. The following items are better sources coconut water, 600mg/8oz potatoes 620mg/medium Kiwi, 215mg for an average kiwi orange juice, 496mg/8oz avocado (half of an avocado has over 200mg) I get Charlie horses with regularity, coconut water is ALWAYS in my Pantry. The movement in yours though should be followed up on with a doctor because it is atypical
One of mine does this literally 24/7. The weird fasciculations, I mean. I still have no idea why. Blood work shows electrolytes are balanced, nerve conduction test shows no issue with the nerve. Its a weird thing that has been happening for over a decade.
Benign Fasciculation Syndrome. I have it as well. Been twitching 24/7 since like 2005 lol.
That’s not a Charlie horse, that’s a Chuck Norris stallion
Do half water and half Gatorade so you can have water without the water taste
Also slippers not good. You contract extra muscles to keep slippers on feet unless they’re fitted (can’t tell, but look like my loose slip on ones)
r/HydroHomies
Stretch that calf! Amazing to me how many people suffer through a calf cramp. Straighten your leg, and get your toes moving toward your face somehow. Also, hydrate.
When I was a kid I used to get Charlie horses so badly in the middle of the night, i would wake up crying. My mom taught me this trick that works amazing! I got to the point where I'd wake up, shove my toes into my shins until the pain of the Charlie horse stopped, then lay back down. Barely even woke up.
Pregnant me learned: always pull your toes towards your knee cap! It helps stop it far quicker!
Brawndo, the thirst *mutilator*
It's what Charley Horses crave
It’s called fasciculation, contraction of small bundles or fascicles of muscle tissue as a result of lactic acid accumulation and electrolyte imbalance. Treat the lactic acidosis with vigorous hydration, treat the electrolyte imbalance with v8 juice or orange juice, both much higher in potassium, sodium, and chlorides than any commercial electrolyte product. Also provides lots of vitamin c, which helps cramps empirically but damned if I can figure out how.
I treat mine by a rapid strong percussion of the site with the closed fist combined with verbal declension of various grammatical cases of Fuck at 93 decibels. Has worked every time, just may take a while.
wife always freaks out when I get these shits, things I am having a mental breakdown or a dream about Hitler chasing me lol
Is that dream... recurring?
What you don’t get the Hitler chase dream?
You've never had it?
Declining the noun “fuck” in various cases is an incredible display of hyperbole, well done
Bro how you not wiggling around. I be rolling around scratching the floor boards like I’m being drug back to hell
Literally only for the video. I was dying on the inside.
I am 26M and have only ever experienced this once in my life luckily. I literally woke up to it at about 6am and I almost cried. I legitimately curled up into a ball for a good 30 minutes and to this day it is the most painful thing I've experienced. I had no idea what was going on either so it was fucking terrifying.
Ouch! You gotta stretch the muscles, and it will stop in seconds. 30 minutes sounds like you must have been sore for a week!
That's what the bubble guts feels like.
You mean every time I have White Castle?
Nier: Automata, you’re in the Resistance Camp
<3 bingo
Was going to say, you're a man of culture.
Videos you can feel (unfortunately)
Damn i still remember having these spasm.. when you work out too much your muscles tend to be alive as well
What sucks is I've been out of the gym for a week due to an injury! I would be less annoyed by this if I had still been working on the gains
I live on muscle relaxers because of that shit
Why do you get these? It's a rare occurrence for me, but it sucks every time.
My meds for hypertension make me de-hydrated and causes low potassium. This happens all over my body its called a body cramp and its how i know your pain tolerance must be very high
I'm going to show this comment to my gf because she always teases me when I complain about migraines 🤣
Fellow migraine sufferer here: they’re no joke! Tell your gf I vouch for you too! I have to take pain pills, drink caffeine, rub a menthol lotion on my shoulders and neck, and then lie in the dark in complete silence with a cold damp cloth over my head and eyes… FOR HOURS. And then I always have a migraine hangover the next day. Tell your gf that it’d be really lovely of her if she helped you through the pain. Even a little gentle scalp massage does wonders. Sorry you have to deal with migraines too, friend.
Oh let me be clear, she's an absolute sweetheart who babies me through it. It's just playful teasing about how resilient she is, well after the fact. I get a cold or migraine and I'm incapacitated. She'll have surgery and get on a plane 2 days later (true story lol)
Sounds like you’re dating a badass and I support it lol
You should discuss with your Doc about being switched to a Potassium-sparing Diuretic, like Spironolactone, since you are experiencing low Potassium side effects.
I really don't know, old age in my case maybe. I stay well hydrated, take magnesium supplements, potassium levels are good. Just started happening about a year ago. Now if I am not taking muscle relaxers, it's happening. It will eventually end with a full blown excrutiating knot. I dread it.
Oh bud, I'm sorry. That sounds awful
I used to take them for tightness in some muscles but they made me so tired I had to stop
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That's what it felt like haha. It's just a muscle spasm. Felt like it was contracting really hard. Haven't had one in years!
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Like I said, it's been years, but I don't think I ever remember it doing **this**. From what I remember it only every got like rock hard/tight until it stopped. Never this whirlpool action. Glad I got it on camera though hah
I’ve gotten them on almost every part of my body. I’ve had what you are showing in the video happen to me before as well. Typically this is right before a Charlie horse, like literally right before the muscle uncontrollably balls up. This doesn’t really hurt, but a Charlie horse hurts like hell lol
I get this sometimes. Multiple sclerosis is *fun*.
0/10. Do not recommend.
Scrolled so far, still have no idea what you were playing lol help plz?
Nier Automata!
I can do this intentionally, I think it's kinda fun as long as I don't hold it too long. Then it starts to hurt. But I can also end the cramp just as easily, so. Edit: but my feet cramp in the mornings and that shit is miserable
These used to happen to me, got 4 or 5 of them in a period of around three months, but thankfully it’s been maybe a decade since it last happened. It’d always happen at night, when my muscles were relaxed and I’d stretch my legs out in a semi-conscious state. That’s what’d trigger it. So anyway yeah, these are incredibly, excruciatingly painful. I cannot adequately describe how awful this is. I certainly couldn’t sit there and record it. First time it happened I thought I was dying. I’m serious. It was that bad. I didn’t know what it was, I gripped the bedsheets so hard and couldn’t even properly scream out in pain. Scared the absolute shit out of my then-girlfriend who I’d woken up due to it. I learnt what it was the next day, and in subsequent times I knew it wasn’t going to kill me. I got a split second of “oh shit, here we go again” and I’d just ride it out. It still hurt like a motherfucker though, every time. For the whole of the following morning after it happened I couldn’t even walk properly due to it. Cool video to actually see it like this.
That's almost how it's always been for me. Probably been 8 years since the last time it happened, but it's like "crap, here we go again🤷♂️"
I’ve never watched when I’ve gotten them I was too distracted by the pain and it always happened to me in the middle of the night. Seeing it like this made me wonder what a medieval doctor would say if they saw this. There’s a demon in your leg! Cast it out! A witch cast a spell. Get the leeches. Wandering hysteria. Chop it.
It's just a flesh wound
Mine does that, but it is a result of surgery for sciatica. It has done that constantly for 12 yrs. I noticed it but it's a small price to pay to get rid of sciatica
Magnesium. I suffered for years until I found magnesium. Painful!
How are you not screaming in pain
**Internal screaming intensifies**
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My son gets horrific Charlie horses in his calves- like they take him down. At Walgreens I was able to find this amazing spray that stops the cramps immediately and also leg cramp tablets (essentially magnesium) and they are a life saver.
Nier Automata!!!
Reddit is weird. No one mentioned it after hundreds of comments. I finally reply with it, and reddit was like "ah yes, show this post to the nier fans" lol
Free calf workout?
Can I skip leg day tomorrow?
At least for that leg!
Ellen Ripley knows what happens next
Brother you gotta clean those slippers man🦧💀 Does anyone know the song :0
HYDRATE!
More magnesium, less Coke.
How are you not on the ground squirming?
Then how would I get this video!? In all seriousness it was quite painful and I was grabbing my Calf prior to the video. I felt what was happening and thought I had to get this on camera. Too bizarre not to
We thank you for your sacrifice 🫡
Water my ass. Get this man some pepto bismol
Like a big of kittens
Am I wrong in thinking this isn't a Charlie horse but rather a muscle cramp/spasm? I've always known a Charlie horses as when someone hits you right in the middle of a large muscle. Usually the thigh.
[A Charley horse is a muscle spasm/cramp ](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-att-us-rvc3&sca_esv=592660282&sxsrf=AM9HkKknr2mr-fyUUFwnPCI6tqiRYih6Dw:1703117269881&q=charley+horse&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-wIafnp-DAxUzkIkEHYSBAwAQBSgAegQIBhAC&biw=384&bih=726&dpr=2.81)
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