Travis Seitler: Web Designer

I hate getting charley horses. I tend to get them in waves, too.

I woke up this morning at about 4am. I had about five seconds from the moment that I was awake and knew a muscle was pulled, and the start of the pain. This was the worst one I’ve ever had! It was like I’d been stabbed in the calf, and someone was twisting the knife over and over again. And it seemed like multiple muscles in my calf were getting pulled–like how one power supply goes down and puts a strain on the whole system, eventually shutting everything down. Steven Subotnick, D.P.M. says:

“This out-of-the-blue leg cramp is as intense as a kick from a palomino. You’ll be lying in bed or even asleep when you get this terrible knot-usually in the calf but sometimes in the thigh or the arch of your foot.”

Apparently if I get out of bed right away and stand on that leg, it’ll make the pain go away quicker? (That and drinking more water, of course–I hate drinking water!) I wish I’d checked Wikipedia before today.