You need a little Magnesium
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I need a big magnesium
I wouldn't take more than 600mg at once
Of course you wouldn't, coward. That's how you unlock wolverine skeleton.
I can never remember if it’s magnesium or potassium.
I used to suffer from them regularly as a kid. Just drink water. Thats it, nothing magica... maybe it's the magnesium as another poster said. But honestly I have never had one since I changed my life and joined the hydro homies.
Stretching helps. Try to touch your toes every morning. If you can't reach them, ask someone else to touch your toes for you.
OMG. Genius life hack. Never even thought of having someone else touch my toes.
.....drink some water folks.
This fixes it instantly every time for me. Ignore everybody else. When you get that cramp start moving your foot in the opposite direction pointing your toes towards your knee 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
That's fair. Everybody's body is a bit different I suppose. I would totally be doing more stretches in your case though.
Yeah, I’ve neglected physical health too much recently
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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
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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
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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
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Similar trick I learned, just get out of bed and stand up on it. It'll go away in ~10 seconds and then you can hop back into bed. Works pretty much every time.
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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). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1068
Hydration certainly helps but can also be magnesium deficiency, since it's a muscle relaxant.
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"Toes to noes!" Stretching your foot upward helps prevent it.
This is the way.
Oh God, thank you so much for this
you basically just want to stretch whichever muscle is seizing up. if it's your calf you want to pull on your toes.
I usually just try and relax it before the cramp hits critical mass. Stretching is always a "it's stuck" response
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WE ARE CHARLIE HORSE!
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. Cramps are even often cited as a direct symptom of hypokalemia.
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You're dehydrated
Is that what that means? I never knew and just grunted at the pain.
Ya, apparently “dehydrated” is some new word for “thirsty”.
And now “thirsty” means something totally different.
yes
400mg of Mg daily fixes this.
400 milligrams of milligrams/day. Got it. I'll mix that in with my extra milk per milk.
Time to become a magnesium-based life form
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. Their kind cling to their flesh, as if it will not cramp and fail them.
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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.
Charlie's not been around for a long time... Since I tripled my magnesium bisglycinate dose (spread out through the day), along with other minerals.
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