I have not often been afflicted with them outside of my menstrual cycle and I don't appreciate it!
My own accomplishments are less terrifying but involve, I think, the periformis muscle, which is very hard to stretch out; also some muscle on the front of the shin. I would prefer a simple Charley Horse, thanks.
Seriously. I knew abstractly that any muscle in the body could cramp, but I really didn't need some of them to prove it quite so vociferously.
*hugs*
In my case V8 juice and something with magnesium in (almonds, often) will usually help, but so many missing things can cause cramping that it's hard to know what to stock up on.
The most closely analogous time anything like this happened, my potassium and magnesium had been stripped out, so we started there. I was definitely thinking about vegetables today, though, and how since the start of the pandemic I eat a lot fewer of them than I used to.
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I have not often been afflicted with them outside of my menstrual cycle and I don't appreciate it!
My own accomplishments are less terrifying but involve, I think, the periformis muscle, which is very hard to stretch out; also some muscle on the front of the shin. I would prefer a simple Charley Horse, thanks.
Seriously. I knew abstractly that any muscle in the body could cramp, but I really didn't need some of them to prove it quite so vociferously.
*hugs*
In my case V8 juice and something with magnesium in (almonds, often) will usually help, but so many missing things can cause cramping that it's hard to know what to stock up on.
The most closely analogous time anything like this happened, my potassium and magnesium had been stripped out, so we started there. I was definitely thinking about vegetables today, though, and how since the start of the pandemic I eat a lot fewer of them than I used to.