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I have often had calf muscle cramp, but this is easily dealt with by walking about. However, last night I had a thigh muscle cramp which was far more acute than anything I had had before. The pain was excruciating and lasted ten minutes. My face went grey and I almost fainted. I couldn't walk and massaging seemed to have little effect.

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  • marilyn58520
    marilyn58520 Guest

    Posted

    It's as if a T-Rex has a grip on you and is ripping you out of your bed! These started for me about 7 years ago.  Some things that have helped:

    Magnesium Malate (never sterate, hard on kidneys) and potassium with evening meal

    1/4 cup Quinine tonic water befor bed and Stops Leg & Foot Cramps liquid..Just shoot it down, it's not tasty.  Have water chaser to follow.

    Magnesium oil on legs and feet before bed

    Wear loose socks to keep feet warm, even knee highs to keep legs warm.

    'The Rub' on legs and feet

    Stay off ladders

    Heat and vibration help but hard to get instant heat in the middle of screaming. Might get some instant heat packs and have by bed.

    Opposite muscle used makes cramp muscle release.  If cramp is on inner thigh get to a doorway and press outter thigh against it or have spouse push against outter thigh while you push against that. If on outter thigh push legs together.  It will take the longest 20 seconds to start to release, just deep breathe thru it.

    Stops Leg & Foot Cramps liquid sold at Ace hardware ($10.).  Amish recipe and since I have taken at bedtime had only 1 episode of being woken by T-Rex monster. 

    DO NOT STRETCH in morning while in bed.  Get on feet as soon as you wake up, especially if you feel a cramp coming on or in the middle of one.  

    Now all of us with these cramps know what a heart attack is going to feel like.

     

    • Angellove
      Angellove marilyn58520

      Posted

      Great info. Thank you. Yes your time Rex is my alien in my body lol. I am so glad I found this site and forum. I feat alone with this excruciating condition but not anymore. The support makes a high difference.

      Angel love

  • veronica50739
    veronica50739 Guest

    Posted

    Thanks Marilyn.  I think your T-Rex description is appropriate. And your sense of humor refreshingbiggrin   

  • buster82032
    buster82032 Guest

    Posted

    Ive had a similar occurance while driving. I thought I would walk it off...then it went into the left leg. I was screaming in agony into my jacket willing my wife to move more quickly. In the end took 2 Endone and crushed both to drink with some crushed Endone.

    Currently the second cramp is in the right upper leg. Each laboured step was of a burning and semi paralysedfrom the hip down. I could just move. Thank go my heating pad kicked in. Im still zonked from earlier Endone.

    I take 2 statins and i completely forgot to bite the area of long flesh twixt fore finger and my thumb.

    Time for a magnesium capsule...and some big glasses of water.

    Regards

    Buster

  • Angellove
    Angellove Guest

    Posted

    I TOO HAVE THE HORriBLE spasms in thigh. Both but I also will at times get one in the glut at same time. I cry from pain.need to go to toilet but cannot walkwith the cramp. . Stomach sick. Muscle pops out.Get hamstring at same time at times. And sometimes all down the entire leg. Cannot move and hard to breathe from pain. All

    From moving my leg. In sleep and at times anytime. Even driving! No Dr knows what it is! I find that impossible to believe. But I cannot get any ans. I have ms but not real bad. This started a few years ago. I take it d3. B12 etc. No Relief. Tears from this agony. Pain for days after and black and blue or veins show up. Very sore for over a weekey. All I can do is get frozen ice brick to put on ut. SHORTENS THE DURATION for me. But it is unbearable agony. and no answers from any Dr's I have seen.

    • buster82032
      buster82032 Angellove

      Posted

      Yep its a bugga of a pain. Now when it strikes I dont jump outta bed. I lie very still and i just move a little at a time to let it do its thing without grabbing like a shark attack victim. Before bed i now do some leg stretches especially before and during a flight. Still if your having independent muscle twitches ...see you doctor for bms. ..benign muscle spasms. ..tht just titches baby. But the T-Rex bite...thsts the closest youll ever get apart from being taken by a shark. I was swimming at a nude beach when the spasm struck. ..i gotta say...I was looking for blood in the water. . When i finally got to shore there was a gr8 deal of cloudy water behind me and my left leg was severely bent at the knee. Big pain like this can cause incontinence. ..no hiding when your naked and afraid. Regards Buster
    • Angellove
      Angellove buster82032

      Posted

      Thank you for the reply. Yes I agree the pain is agony. And I have high tolerance×! Shark bite dangerous. Good comparisonI live in Sofla shark a olenrmty.

    • buster82032
      buster82032 Angellove

      Posted

      So..who are you...a male or a female. Me I'm a Male. .i live near shark central called Shark Island in Sydney. There was one post that was from a Dr Mathews. He or she said that the legs or specifically the calf muscles have the job of pumping yhe blood at night back to the heart. Man that muscle does a lot of pimping day in day out. I reckon the pain we have in our legs is the same pain I'm going to have in my heart. Its half 12 here in the morning. I've been welding all day and night. I almost had a spasm. ..but i just moved my sitting position slightly. ..I've got some rush medical instruments to put together so my levels of concentration are acute. But as you get older as male or female no one has a butt anymore.

      .it all starts heading south at 30 or even less. ..more fat takes its place. ..read all the previous replies and look for the Dr Mathews reply.

      Still my levels of concentration psyd off in target shooting. ..mostly get a 199 out of 200 consistently. ...tha5s my sport and sailing where i have noticed when seated that any blockage to the hind qusrters can bring on a spasm. Ive watned my crew what they have to do....and thats not lose the race. Throw me down below or try not to stand on me tleither. My ashes will be scattered near the Shark Idland starting area. ..not for a while I hope but who knows.

      Do stretches before bed lengthening the schilles at the heel. Wear socks to keep warm .if you get hot...dangle them out out onto the matress. ..drink plenty of water and take a Magnesium forte tablet.

      But get sll that cleared wih your Doctor.

      Have a great day.

      ..do some walking low impact exercise and some running in water at chest height.. .go on hava go. ..throw another prawn on the barbie ..regards Buster

    • buster82032
      buster82032

      Posted

      Errr....sorry about the typos. ..especially about all pumping the heart does...i didnt mean to write pimping. Sorry to all. Its been a 16 hour day...and i sense that t-Rex may be about. So plenty of water and stretching for drive home
    • Angellove
      Angellove buster82032

      Posted

      I buster. I am female. I Live in south Florida . very far from you. we have many sharks and bites here too.

      yes when I stretch I many times GET a spasm. but I do walk. I made a stroller for my little parrot to go to the parks with me. she lives that. I put her 12x12x12 hurricane aluminum cage on a milk crate box on the seat of a walker. bungee it on and off we go. I will send you photo of me and her if u like.

      the spams drive me nuts. more for a while and then they due down for a while. I am holistic and eat organic mostly vegan. I take d3 40000 iu per week. b 12 vitamins. my cal.mag are fine. blood work great. but my muscles are confused., lol.

      such pain,like I never experienced really. so nice to talk with you.angel

  • caroline15959
    caroline15959 Guest

    Posted

    We al search for a solution to this horrible pain. I wish there was a way of putting together all the info in these blogs to try to make sense of what works for some.

    After a break of probably 3 months, I have had two awful sessions with inner thigh cramp recently and only about a week apart. One was just getting out of bed - and no, I never sleep in the fetal position any more, and one when sitting on an unfamiliar sofa which was comfortable and supportive but aybe wrong for me.

    I am tring crampbark tablets and will see if that helps. I dont find the crampex ones work. And I am going to keep a diary to see what is really going on. 

    Good luck everyone with your own solutions.

    • italyagain
      italyagain caroline15959

      Posted

      Stretch your legs before getting out of bed or getting out of a chair or off the couch.  You need to get a stretch in that inner thigh.  That may be a silly thing to do and why we have to do that makes no sense to me, but it is the only thing that eliminates my spasms.  When I forget to stretch, I suffer.  Plain and simple.
    • MikiD
      MikiD italyagain

      Posted

      Agreed!  Stretch and massage the thigh.  During my daughter's volleyball, I stand between each set and stretch, walk and massage my thighs before sitting back down.  It does help. 

    • caroline15959
      caroline15959 italyagain

      Posted

      Thanks Italy, have already renewed my stretching efforts. Embarrassing though to get up in a restaurant after a nice meal and stretch! Maybe I have to get over the self consciousness. 

       

    • buster82032
      buster82032 caroline15959

      Posted

      Hi there. WAIT till youve been invited of for dinner with wifes old work friend. ..dinner perfect. ..my leg goes into a mind numbing spasm snd i disappear under the table and off the elegant chair.

      Everyone x 3 jump up and say you know what! . Thank God it didnt take me...what do you think they THOUGHT ?

      THE husband a former Test Rugby player reached under the table grabbed my 6 ft 5 260 lb body and half carried and dragged me off to the front bedroom where pedestrian passerbys could look in a see Rugby field treatment to a sobbing 50 yearold man. I never walked or talked the same again .

      I've been warned never to behave like that again in company. Now when it happens i just sit and cry...causing her even more embarrassment. It'll happen to you too one day babe...I'm not wishing it on you...but you need educating darling. We hardly socialise these days....bliss at last.

    • becki72987
      becki72987 italyagain

      Posted

      I am so happy that I found this thread. I just had my 3rd ever inner thigh spasm. The first one I had caused me to think it was a blood clot and I was sure I would be dead in a few minutes. I just pressed hard on the pain until it finally passed moaning, rocking and praying the entire time. Tonight for the first time, even before reading it here, I thought it could be stemming from my back. I have degenerative disc disease in my L5/S1 which have left me on permanent disability. The oain started ib the groin, down to the back of my knee and then would switch to the back outer and back up almost to the butt. It appeared to be trying to go through the sciatic nerve. I never could have stood up during it. I'm afraid to stand up now, or lay back down. But I tgank you all for you suggestions. I will be trying some of them soon.

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