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Drink more water, that's my solution

I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice!

If this happens to you, it's time to check your electrolytes! Cramping can be a sign of low potassium. Most healthy people should be aiming for 2g+ of potassium per day.

Popularly known food sources of potassium (like banana and avocado) aren't super great in a pinch. Coconut water, or beverages like Electrolit / Pedialyte, do a better job. For your regular dietary intake, there are lots of foods better than banana and avocado at getting you the potassium you need.

This post brought to you by the fucking awful leg cramps I used to get when eating a low carb diet.

Yea calf cramps are bad but have you ever had chin cramps

FYI if you ever get leg cramp, completely straighten your leg, and flex your feet upwards, towards your shin. This will stretch your leg muscles and stop the pain almost immediately.

Used to happen to me quite a few times, esp. when being a kid doing lot of sports. Once I was afraid I would drown when getting leg cramp in the pool, but this method saved me.

You likely have a potassium deficit. I had cramps all the time until I took vitamin supplements that contain potassium. No more cramps.

Of course you can also just eat healthier and get potassium that way. Supplements aren't necessarily the solution for you.

Glad I’m not the only one. This is always a moment of pure terror

I've had ones so severe I thought my tendons were going to snap, waking me up in the middle of the night and I'm screaming and doing sympathy whines pleading for mercy. I have genuine fear of the bed time calf and/or foot cramp.

That use to happen to me a lot, but I haven't felt that pain in a long time. I started doing yoga regularly which helps, but even without doing yoga, a lesson I learned from yoga prevents that situation in other cases. It's about balance, so when you stretch your feet down, don't stretch your feet down toe first, there is no balance there, stretch your legs down heel first, that way the back muscle is being pulled down and the front muscle is being pulled up with your toe, the two counteract each other and you will not get this cramping.

Seek balance in all things friends, including your muscles while you stretch.

I like the feeling of having cramps. Sometimes I'll deliberately over strain my leg muscles to induce cramps in my calf and feet. Idk it hurts but not in a I want this to stop way. I find it fun stretching them out when I get them. The only ones I don't usually like are ones in my neck from yawning because it's weird to have my face contacted

Near death experience

OMG i am not alone and people have tips here,

I am so exited for part 2 of my life.

Sackboy ! :D

The comments under this post are proof that Lemmings have shit diets without proper electrolytes.

When I used to get these, the thing that made them stop immediately was standing up. It seems like the last thing you want to do, but standing up and putting all weight on both legs as soon as I felt one coming always did the trick.

I eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg, don't smoke, drink moderately (1 drink 3 days a week) work out regularly and still get these. The worst is in yoga, when my feet cramp and I can't do something. Calves in bed close second.

I thought it was from drinking or fasting but there seems no correlation. Age, maybe.

I get those in my thighs a lot

I just had one last week! Ugh just feeling it tighten until my muscles start tearing is the worst... And then I get to explain why I'm limping at work lol

If this happens, push the ball of your feet up. The ball of you feet is the front of your foot connected to the toes, helped me many times.

Charlie horses are awful. It was hydration for me. When I drink enough water I don't get them

I get this all the time. Have your foot angle up towards your head. It'll stop the cramps from happening. Picture standing up and trying to balance on your heels you want that kind of bend at the foot/ankle.

I hate these. Pointing my toes as far up/back as possible (stretching the calf) usually causes them to stop for me.

When you're masturbating in bed*

fuck that when you go over the edge and immediately hello pain

Since I stopped alcohol and smoking I haven’t had a single cramp. It’s only weed nowadays

I used to have all sorts of pains, vertigos and morning numbness when I was heavily drinking twice a week and smoking. It’s such a poison

Me: Salty banana eating hydro homie still in fear of stretching too much in bed which will cause the calf or foot cramp.

Foot cramps are worse. Calf cramp pain lasts for days.

The bending or stretching doesn't work if you don't get to it fast enough. There's only so much bending with a muscle so taut Richard Simmons would give it a respectable nod from the afterlife.

Or when you twist or stretch too suddenly and feel a little something go snap in your lower back, that's when you know yer gonna be using Advil for at least a couple of days.

Ate shit on an ebike a lil under 30.

The Charlie's horse the night after was fucking BRUTAL!

Wear a helmet lol.

Most of the time, leg crams are intentional. Not really worried about the few that are unintentional as long as they go away on their own or can be walked out.

Countering those movements helps me

Used to get these like crazy. It can be from certain physical activities, poor diet, dehydration etc. My advice would be drink plenty of water, eat Potassium rich foods (bananas, sweet potatoes) and consider magnesium, either by oral suplement or topical (Epsom salts in bath or a product like theraworx directly applied to calf muscles).

My leg cramps completely stopped after I started using the topical magnesium stuff applied every few days.

Guess i need to donate my dead body to science after im dead. I never had a cramp in the 38 years of my life. shrugs

I don't get those. Is it like a genetic thing or has bro not eaten a banana and also something with some magnesium in it for over 3 months?