My husband after two top of the lung screams from me finally sat up and muttered in his dead to the world sleepiness, "what's going on, what, are you ok?" he asked " are you screaming?"
Gritting my teeth, I apologized for waking him, I knew he came to bed at midnight and had to be on the road for a 4 hour drive by 6am. A gasping moan escaped from me. Then the pain intensified and I let loose with a mouth wide open "FUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK it hurts so bad."
After discovering my reason for screaming my husband put his headphones on and went back to sleep, leaving me to deal with the pain and the now awake and having to go outside pack of dogs that sleep in our bedroom.
This type of pain has been experienced by me before. In my calf muscles, I get charley horses,
knots, incredibly painful muscle cramps. Only at night do these episodes occur. I know when they will happen and try to prevent them. During the day once I start to feel my muscles tighten , I increase my water, stretch and try to relax. Sometimes this process works other times not.Today I am feeling the after effects of last night's episode. My muscles are still tight and cramping, I'm tired, and because of the water intake increase I am peeing every couple of hours. My son is calling me a whimp. Mr. All-County football player, wrestler, lacrosse player, claims he knows pain. OK so he has had broken bones, stitches, concussions, but he has not given birth to a child and has not experienced my muscle cramps.
Yoga class is tomorrow, I hope my muscles are relaxed by class time. I can't take being called a whimp.
2 comments:
Oh boy! We do have a lot in common! I mostly got those when I was pregnant, but there have been exceptions!
For what it's worth, I have a couple of suggestions.
First, ask your husband to take your foot and pull your toes toward your head. You could NEVER do that for yourself, and it forces the darn thing to stretch. I doesn't hurt any more than the spasm, and it relieves the cramp pretty fast (if you are lucky like me).
I was told that there was a need for more calcium in my diet. Don't know if that is true.
My brother recently suffered terribly from cramping in his legs. Turned out it was a side effect of Lipitor.
Keep turning those feet! Stretch those toes as far up toward your head as you can!
I'm so sorry to hear about this. You are no whimp! It is pure hell when your body takes on a 'mind of its own"!
Also... the Ironwood is still standing! Thanks for your good wishes and please keep 'em coming!!
Thanks for the inforamtion. I will look into the calcium, and try the stretching you suggested.
Glad to hear the Ironwood is still standing!!!!
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