• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    2 months ago

    Lift toes and feet, kick heels out as hard as you can. Hold.

    Doesn’t always stop it, but can help considerably if you start before it fully fires off.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
    10·
    2 months ago

    Oh I hate that, but the only solution for me is to equally strongly point my foot towards my head.

    • topherclay@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I have always found that standing up stops the cramp better than anything else. I heard it was like handing over the controls to your central (or maybe peripheral?) nervous system and letting that higher authority override the cramp by deciding that maintaining your balance while standing up is a higher priority. Then you can safely stretch and get hydrated after that.

      I have jumped out of bed in a panic many times and it has worked every time.

  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    The only cramps I ever get is period cramps I don’t understand random body parts cramping that seems like it shouldn’t be happening?

  • grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    Today I learned this is a common thing. I started getting these in the mornings after I started cycling a ton and really developed my calves. An excruciating reminder that I didn’t hydrate well enough the day before.

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’ve never gotten a cramp in my life. I’m on 39’s doorstep and I’m a guy. My wife has woken me up on a couple occasions with her Charley horses. I’m happy to see it’s not just her.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      If your electrolytes are balanced, you shouldn’t get cramps. Cramping is caused by not having enough potassium, which is used by your nerves to signal relaxing muscles. Sodium is used to signal clenching. Too much sodium for the potassium and the signals get unbalanced and you can’t relax that muscle.

      Magnesium and calcium also play a role and deficiencies can result in cramping or tremors (like unsteady hands might just be from being low on Mg, Ca, or K).

      So it seems like you’ve been eating well at least as far as electrolytes are concerned, especially if you can hold your hand out rock steady, regardless of whether your muscles are clenched or relaxed.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I think I’m just lucky, good genes. I eat fine, but I’ve also survived off bars and snacks in the desert for days, never had issues. Always drink my water though, love water.

        Nowadays, I do eat (well, ingest) a banana every day, and that’s the only kind of K I’m into anymore.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, when my own levels were low enough to get the occasional cramp, it never happened on a day I ate a banana.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    Thanks for reminding me of this, I’m gonna be paranoid stretching next couple of times.

    Make sure you get enough potassium, calcium, and magnesium, along with hydration.

  • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Cut off your calves and eat them that’s the only way God knows how to fuck in the digeridoos of turtle why the fuck a turtle I ain’t fucked no turtle in three days, but that’s a stretch of time to elaborate how Don Lemon returned me to sender

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Are you an LLM with only a 10 token context window? Or doing that thing that humans do when their brain blood escapes its brain blood tube and becomes a brain blood pool or has trouble making it to all the brain cells because the brain blood tube is too full of non-brain blood things?

      Either way, thanks for the moment of amusement I got trying to parse the combination of words you used in the order you used them.