Cramp

[billroper]

Every so often when I'm lying in bed, I twitch my calf in the wrong direction and it cramps. If I very carefully flex my ankle in the right direction, I can ease the cramp out.

This morning in my sleep-befogged state, I flexed my ankle in the wrong direction.

Ow, ow, ow!

Needless to say, this woke up daisy_knotwise.

I have just about walked the cramp out now. I'll try not to do that again.

Comments

[aryana-filker.livejournal.com]

Urgh. I *so* know this. Sometimes it is so dad that I even can't get out of bed fast enough. I started to take magnesium pills. Works.

[madfilkentist]

I have that problem sometimes, usually when I'm waking up and stretching. I find that wiggling my ankle back and forth (cautiously at first) generally makes it better.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound very weird, but here it is. I get calf cramps in bed, too, and some years back I learned a technique that helps ease them. As soon as the pain hits, take your upper lip between thumb and forefinger and squeeze. I have no idea why it works.

[naomilynne.livejournal.com]

Because men tend to often confuse 'below the waist' with 'above the neck'?