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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you're getting these regularly I've found more potassium in my diet helped a huge amount.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also more water, with your potassium.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the English folk song on which Kelis based her hit "Milkshake":

🎵 My potato brings all the Irish to the Yard
They're like, the famine is hard
Damn right, the famine is hard
I could feed you, but you'll have to starve 🎵

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Magnesium, for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I used to get these all the time and now I don't. Hydration and nutrition works wonders.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't get these often, but when I do, trying to point my toes at my chin often helps. Very occasionally that doesn't feel right and I know to point my toes the other way before I pay for making that choice.

If the bedclothes are tight or heavy and I'm under them, they can be used to hold the foot in place until the moment passes. Or until I have to get out of bed to writhe around or try something, anything else.

I don't remember the last time the toe pointing thing didn't work though. Maybe I just don't get really bad ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I get these every few months or so, and at this point when I feel one coming on I'll automatically start pointing my toes up before I even fully wake up and realize what's happening. That nips it in the bud before the pain starts, and I can go right back to bed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. This has never happened to me

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh look at this individual with all their potassium and hydration.

Fuck you. (Not really)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I do be eatin bananas tho

And drinking that water

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do some leg curls and calf extensions and drink no water for the rest of the day, or, better yet, drink a few glasses of wine before bed.

You will experience this in all it's painful glory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Eh. I’m good. Thanks though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I dislocated the meniscus of my left knee while sleeping few weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've had a piece of rebar go through my calf and I still think these hurt worse than that....