Intense Muscle pain at night

I woke up at 4am and was in severe pain.. My leg was killing me, I think it may have been a cramp.. I couldn't even move it, I had to slowly get of my bed and started to walk in circles... It felt like I was shot or something, I can't describe the pain.. I really don't want this to happen to me again.. :frown:

Reply 1

Seeks

I had this the other day :redface:

maybe its contagious... :redface:

naa seriously (at least with mine) it was just cramp. At least if it went away within a few minutes

Reply 2

Hulk56

Seeks

I had this the other day :redface:

maybe its contagious... :redface:

naa seriously (at least with mine) it was just cramp. At least if it went away within a few minutes

I had mine for 10 minutes. Even If I moved my leg an Inch, it would start killing me again. Its horrible

Reply 3

Ting-Ting

Its just a cramp..i get those often especially after exercising. You're just lacking salt intake me thinks.

Reply 4

Hulk56

Ting-Ting

Its just a cramp..i get those often especially after exercising. You're just lacking salt intake me thinks.

Isn't salt bad for you?

Reply 5

Ting-Ting

Well im not sayign that you need to eat a sachet of salt but you should drink something isotonic to replenish your salt needs for the concentration of your blood (thats what my colleague told me to do when i had intense cramps in the middle of the night).

Reply 6

Bottekrank

Bleurgh I hate it when you get cramp in the middle of the night, it's agony and you know you have to move to make it go away but the pain's so intense it's difficult to move. Try not to move a joint/limb suddenly when you wake up as I find this triggers my leg cramps.

Reply 7

1013

I've had that before - it's so horrible and it goes on for ages. I even screamed but my parents didn't even wake up to see if I was being killed!

Reply 8

seashellstar

Salt is bad for your heart in extreem doses, but everybody needs some salt in their body otherwise it leads to all sorts of problems, not just cramp. That's why you should give people who have had a fever, got dehydrated, had food poisioning and who have lost a lot of water or been sick etc. boiled water with little salt in to get their salt balance back even again.

I've heard that bananas are good for cramp you could try that. They say that cramp can last up to 15 minutes and be terrible pain.

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/leg_injuries/a/leg8.htm

Reply 9

Nocturnalia

Ohh I hate that, yeah it's deffo cramp. Last time I had it, it was in my calf - I had to crawl around on the floor cause I couldnt put any weight on my foot, it lasted for ages and was agony! :frown:

Reply 10

Nel48

Ohh, i get that too - i thought it was because my Dad ran ove rmy foot with the car but now i get it on both legs so it can't be.

Try pulling your toes up which will stretch the leg muscle, it usually helps me.

Reply 11

Ting-Ting

Hehe i just usually curl up in agony and tightly clench my toes reeeeally tight...that usually withers away the pain. Once i woke up, got out of bed and the cramp from before weakened the calf muscles so i just crumpled to the floor like an idiot! hehehe!