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Weird Muscle Cramps; Stewie and Others please Read!

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Ok, I have been having an issue with strange muscle cramps for about a year now and am wondering if others have had or seen anything similar. When I say "strange", let me explain by giving you an example of what happened this past friday night. About 2 hours after I went to sleep I awoke to get up and pee and my left adductor muscle went into a locking cramp. If I lay completely still, the muscle will just fasiculate and does not hurt; but if I tense up at all, it locks and is painful. This lasts for about 10 minutes. Then once the left is back to normal, the other side does the exact same thing. So, I sit and wait it out. Then when it was done, my right lateral hamstring does the same thing. Then when that is done, my left lateral hamstring does the same thing. So 45 minutes later, its time to try and fall asleep again.

I workout legs on friday and this ONLY happens on friday nights and only happens with my adductor, abductor, hamstring, or calf muscles; never my quads or any other muscles. It also always seems to start with the muscles that were worked the hardest from an endurance standpoint as opposed to a strength standpoint or muscles that have some sort of minor injury. For example, this past friday, my gym had just replaced some of the older equipment with newer equipment, and I used a different hamstring machine that I could feel pulling on my right lateral hammy. In addition, I had a minor twinge in my left groin from a healing strain. One more piece of information that may be pertinent is that I think stimulants or diet may be playing a role in this as every friday we goto a mexican restaurant for dinner and I have a lot of shit to eat including a glass or 2 of coke.

Anyway, as normal people, I get muscle cramps on rare occasions, but this shit with the muscle fasiculating for a long time and then switching to the other side is just plain weird and not something I understand. Anybody else have this issue or that can explain whats going on; please post your thoughts.
 
I had the exact same thing happening to me and the pain was very intense, hurt worse than just about any pain I have ever felt. For me it was the hamstrings and calves. Once both muscles on one leg cramped at the same time. It was happening frequent enough that once I went to the ER after having one and had a complete blood workup done. They could find nothing wrong, no way to explain what happened.
At the time I had been taking a proton pump inhibitor (pantoprazole) for about 5 weeks and thought maybe it was that. I got off of it and it never happened again. I thought it might be magnesium because literature suggested it might be lowered by the drug but my levels were normal. I will never know what caused it for sure but the problem has not returned. I have had a few occasions where I thought it might come back because my adductors started to feel like they might cramp but it never progressed past just being a feeling.
If you haven't experienced this yet then I hope you never have to because the pain is just tremendous and it wakes you up from a deep sleep. I had my wife stretch my leg way out to the side to stretch out the adductor and it helped some, but then my calf would cramp. Just terrible.

I now use famotidine and I have been ok.
 
Sounds excruciating! Sorry to hear that!

First guess would be exercise induced compartment syndrome? Otherwise I'm not sure? You're very religiously adamant about supplementing electrolytes, or so I'd believe? That would be my next assumption. Electrolyte imbalance? Doubtful..

Gotgame?
 
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I had the exact same thing happening to me and the pain was very intense, hurt worse than just about any pain I have ever felt. For me it was the hamstrings and calves. Once both muscles on one leg cramped at the same time. It was happening frequent enough that once I went to the ER after having one and had a complete blood workup done. They could find nothing wrong, no way to explain what happened.
At the time I had been taking a proton pump inhibitor (pantoprazole) for about 5 weeks and thought maybe it was that. I got off of it and it never happened again. I thought it might be magnesium because literature suggested it might be lowered by the drug but my levels were normal. I will never know what caused it for sure but the problem has not returned. I have had a few occasions where I thought it might come back because my adductors started to feel like they might cramp but it never progressed past just being a feeling.
If you haven't experienced this yet then I hope you never have to because the pain is just tremendous and it wakes you up from a deep sleep. I had my wife stretch my leg way out to the side to stretch out the adductor and it helped some, but then my calf would cramp. Just terrible.

I now use famotidine and I have been ok.

Didn't mean hamstrings, it was my adductor muscles. Not sure what I was thinking. Adductors and gastroc.
 
Sounds excruciating! Sorry to hear that!

First guess would be exercise induced compartment syndrome? Otherwise I'm not sure? You're very religiously adamant about supplementing electrolytes, or so I'd believe? That would be my next assumption. Electrolyte imbalance? Doubtful..

Gotgame?

I take 2 potassium(100mg) in the AM and 2 in the PM. I also take Mag Glycinate in the AM, and Mag Taurate as well as Threonate in the evening. I tried adding in some extra mag and potassium before bed to see if there was a difference and it didn't change anything. For a while I would drink what is called a "mexican" coke at dinner because it is from mexico and I believe is slightly stonger. I quit drinking those and I didn't have any problems. So I added back in coke from the fountain and I was ok for a while as well; but then it started up again. I am going to take the coke out again, but that is why I think it may be stimulant related.
 
Didn't mean hamstrings, it was my adductor muscles. Not sure what I was thinking. Adductors and gastroc.

Yeah, the contractions are so extreme, I am afraid that it is going to rip the muscle off the bone. When it is done, the muscle is very sore for several days at least. I can still feel soreness in my lateral hammys from fridays episode.
 
Are you taking any beta agonists by chance the day of your leg workouts? This can cause nocturnal leg cramps.
 
Yeah, the contractions are so extreme, I am afraid that it is going to rip the muscle off the bone. When it is done, the muscle is very sore for several days at least. I can still feel soreness in my lateral hammys from fridays episode.

Happens to my quad(tear drop) sometimes. The muscle will contract and lock up. I literally could cry while it's happening. & like you said it will be extremely sore for days to come after it happens
 
Why the supplemental potassium?

This is generally not needed assuming no renal or cardiovascular disease. If on a no or extremely low carbohydrate diet, or with some stimulants, antihypertension or anorexiant medications, then maybe, but in MOST cases, supplemental potassium is not required, or recommended.

You may be simply losing sodium due to excretion from the potassium supplementation; causing too much intracellular activity without sufficient water to pull from outside the cell.
 
Why the supplemental potassium?

This is generally not needed assuming no renal or cardiovascular disease. If on a no or extremely low carbohydrate diet, or with some stimulants, antihypertension or anorexiant medications, then maybe, but in MOST cases, supplemental potassium is not required, or recommended.

You may be simply losing sodium due to excretion from the potassium supplementation; causing too much intracellular activity without sufficient water to pull from outside the cell.

x2... good points

Do you use any pre workouts? Any PDE5 inhibitors? Bascially anything good for muscle pumps? Do you do a lot of sets and reps? Other than that I would have brought up an electrolyte imbalance like the above.
 
My wife's adductor or sartorius does this frequently. She'll literally wake up screaming like she's being attacked by someone. The entire muscle seizes into a petrified rock. If I lay on top of it with my elbow embedded it will release faster but nothing stops it. She's the healthiest person I've ever known. Well hydrated, eats great. We've tried all kinds of supplemental routines and right when we think..."yeah, we're in good shape"....BAM it hits her again. I feel for her. She's woken up our kids and scared them so bad they cried because they thought she was dying or something.
 
Yeah, the contractions are so extreme, I am afraid that it is going to rip the muscle off the bone. When it is done, the muscle is very sore for several days at least. I can still feel soreness in my lateral hammys from fridays episode.

EXACTLY what it felt like to me. Felt like it was going to tear right off the damn bone. Worst pain I have ever felt. I would get it on one leg and then have my wife pull it out to stretch the adductor and then the adductor on the opposite leg would go, and then later my gastrocs started cramping too. Sometimes I would get the cramp to just about subside but then if I moved that leg even an inch it would go again.
 
My wife's adductor or sartorius does this frequently. She'll literally wake up screaming like she's being attacked by someone. The entire muscle seizes into a petrified rock. If I lay on top of it with my elbow embedded it will release faster but nothing stops it. She's the healthiest person I've ever known. Well hydrated, eats great. We've tried all kinds of supplemental routines and right when we think..."yeah, we're in good shape"....BAM it hits her again. I feel for her. She's woken up our kids and scared them so bad they cried because they thought she was dying or something.

Sounds like me. Since I stopped that proton pump inhibitor I have not had it again. Like I said, mine was so bad the one night that I had my wife drive me to the ER because I was worried my electrolytes were really off and I might have heart trouble. All my electrolytes were normal though.
 
Are you taking any beta agonists by chance the day of your leg workouts? This can cause nocturnal leg cramps.

I've been on adderall for years, 10mg, 2 x per day and I take TN's Buzz Saw before my workout.
 
Why the supplemental potassium?

This is generally not needed assuming no renal or cardiovascular disease. If on a no or extremely low carbohydrate diet, or with some stimulants, antihypertension or anorexiant medications, then maybe, but in MOST cases, supplemental potassium is not required, or recommended.

You may be simply losing sodium due to excretion from the potassium supplementation; causing too much intracellular activity without sufficient water to pull from outside the cell.

I actually wasn't taking the potassium originally before all this started(or the magnesium). I added it in on the theory that maybe I was getting dehydrated or an electrolytye imbalance because I drink a shitload of water every day. I live where it is over 100 degrees for many months straight and have always been a sweater and always thirsty as a result.
 
I've been on adderall for years, 10mg, 2 x per day and I take TN's Buzz Saw before my workout.

Have you took the pre workout (or others) the entire time this has happened?
 
x2... good points

Do you use any pre workouts? Any PDE5 inhibitors? Bascially anything good for muscle pumps? Do you do a lot of sets and reps? Other than that I would have brought up an electrolyte imbalance like the above.

Yes, I take 5mg Cialis every night before bed for the prostate(you know the company I get it from pretty good, lol). I am not positive, but I believe this started quite a bit before I started using the cialis.
 
Have you took the pre workout (or others) the entire time this has happened?

I have been using buzz saw 7 days a week for a couple of years. I used to use Fast Twitch from Cytosport but they changed the formula.
 
If it's more than the occasional cramp got to your doctor and talk to him about prescribing Dilantin. It's a anti seizure medication that's off prescribed for cramps. I suffered for years with cramps in any muscle that was working to exhaustion. I guarantee you will never have a cramp again.
 

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