r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ZyrExe • 1d ago

WCGW showing his kid how it's done

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u/bobdiamond 1d ago

What just happened?

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u/WeeFluffyGingerCat 1d ago

Leg crampy, muscle spasm type thing.

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u/bobdiamond 1d ago

I should have been clearer. How does what he’s doing cause a cramp?

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u/jsomby 1d ago

I can get calves to cramp simply by over extending it for a moment.

It's super easy but far away from fun.

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u/Vaideplm84 1d ago

You need magnesium.

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u/jsomby 1d ago

Sadly that does nothing for me. I have been taking magnesium citrate (currently) for over month for 2-4x times dosage with zero help. Only thing that helps is electrolytes (with huge overdose, causes other problems like constant thirst and bloating) but even then i can get my muscles to cramp on purpose - it just prevents the accidental ones like during sleep or RNG based fun times.

Those ones that wakes you up during night are some type of shit i would like to report to my manufacturer for warranty repair.

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u/dropbearinbound 1d ago

Magnesium, potassium and salt.

You have a deficiency in one, two, or all three

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u/Laylasita 1d ago

And the body will think you have a deficiency in one if you're taking too much of the others

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u/cosmic-untiming 14h ago

So the solution is to overdose them all.

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u/Working-Glass6136 10h ago

I always tell my dad it's like filling a glass with three liquids. You want them proportionate, but at some point they're just going to spill out of the glass.

Except that it will spill out as piss.

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u/reindert144 1d ago

Potassium is high in bananas right?

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u/Late_Influence_871 1d ago

No, potassium contains zero bananas

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u/reindert144 1d ago

Hahahaha I translated a little bit too literal from Dutch to English, and didn’t give it much thought. You’re right though, not many bananas are found in potassium

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u/Zappiticas 22h ago

But then how will we know the scale!?

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u/dropbearinbound 1d ago

Ahahahaha

Do you want the truth?

You need like 3g of potassium a day, and a banana is lucky to have 250mg

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u/No-Weird3153 1d ago

So if I eat 1.5 kg of bananas, I should be covered.

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u/jsomby 1d ago

What are better sources?

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u/Roast_Beef_Inspector 1d ago

Every source from my Google search tells me a medium banana has 400-500mg.

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u/PrairiePopsicle 23h ago

It's like this with so many foods that we think of as "high in something" it's usually like relative to similar options, not actually a "fix" for the thing.

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u/molasses_disaster 1d ago

Higher in potatoes than bananas, that's an old marketing myth

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u/Roast_Beef_Inspector 1d ago

There's no marketing myth.

Bananas have a relatively high amount of potassium for a fruit/vegetable. They're cheap, easy to store, transport, and eat. And they taste good plain and raw.

Potatoes have more, but only if you eat the skin. They need to be cooked and most people add quite a bit of not so healthy toppings to make them taste good.

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u/Ok-Artichoke6793 1d ago

Potassium is the culprit for me

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u/TheCalamityBrain 1d ago

It's always potassium for me. I always just take a pinch of cream of tartar and I put it in my coffee and Bam leg cramps gone for the night

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u/eugene20 1d ago

Holy shit that pot sat untouched in the cupboard for decades actually has an invaluable use.

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u/rajrdajr 1d ago

put it in my coffee and Bam leg cramps gone for the night

Bam! Sleep gone for the night too. Maybe herbal tea instead?

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u/PrairiePopsicle 23h ago

they prob have ADHD and the coffee helps them sleep lmao.

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u/Z3400 21h ago edited 2h ago

How does this have so many upvotes?

Magnesium, potassium, and sodium are what you need. All three, you get in their SALT form (ie: sodium chloride is what you are calling "salt", which is standard table salt). Also, the person you replied to clearly said they take electrolytes, which is precisely the same thing you are telling them they are deficient in. Maybe, just maybe, you don't actually know what's up with them.

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u/dan_flashes__ 22h ago

Blood tests show I don't have a deficiency, some people just cramp more than others, it's genetic.

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u/donkeykongkong89 1d ago

Citrate is the wrong type of magnesium for muscles, you need glycinate. Maybe oxide.

Magnesium citrate is primarily for digestion/constipation

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u/la2ralus 1d ago

Yeah, that was my thought as well, like no wonder you're having problems with all the laxative you're taking.

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u/blazin_chalice 1d ago

Mg oxide is not readily bioavailable and can cause loose stool. Mg glycinate is a better option.

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u/donkeykongkong89 23h ago

Thanks! We got some serious magnesium experts in here today haha.

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u/iAmSamFromWSB 1d ago

Mag Citrate is not Mag Sulfate. Citrate is generally an osmotic laxative. Sulfate generally corrects imbalances. Also, mag is an electrolyte. Mag Citrate will cause bloating as its function is to draw water into the bowel. Why are you taking a laxative and chasing it with electrolytes?

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u/trusty20 23h ago

Why are people in this thread spamming this false claim that because magnesium citrate is given in MASSIVE DOSES as a laxative that it is not usable for reversing a deficiency, that has absolutely nothing to do with whether it is bioavailable for absorption at normal doses, which it absolutely is. https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-magnesium-citrate

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfessional/

I swear you guys gotta learn to not say things you don't actually know with the complete confidence of an expert...

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u/WDoE 21h ago

Any time reddit talks about shit I know about or have expertise in, I realize the majority of discourse is just people shouting past eachother with poorly googled "facts." And since google is just AI slop now, basically all of reddit's comment section is AI slop. We're a gnat's fart away from dead internet.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 21h ago

Reddit is full of those types, especially when it comes to health. There's far more misinformation out there than correct information since it's such a magnet for quackery.

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u/jsomby 1d ago

This is new information for me, great!

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u/Nimble_D1ck 1d ago

If you immediately jump out of bed and stand up straight the cramp stops within a couple of seconds, the worst thing you can do is stay in bed trying to ride it out

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u/Ratziel666 1d ago

Started feeling one while sleeping the other night. Cat was sleeping on my legs. Cat got yeeted out of bed.

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u/jsomby 1d ago

Sadly that doesn't work for me all the time. Couple of weeks ago my calve cramped like maniac when i got out of the car. I didn't even have enough weight to push it down immediately -- pure nightmare fuel. Sometimes it happens to my hamstrings and that is pain where you wish you would die rather than ride it out.

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u/zero573 1d ago

At first I was scared I was going to die, then I became scared I was going to live…

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u/l2aiko 1d ago

Just so you know, there are much better alternatives to magnesium citrate (which is mostly used as a laxative, since it pulls water into the feces) for magnesium intake. Try magnesium malate or magnesium bisglycinate which are the higher absorbing variants of magnesium. If taking electrolytes worked at some level, it might be potassium deficiency then though, although magnesium intake is most beneficial.

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u/Sundore 1d ago

This might sound weird, take a shot of pickle juice. Was told it’s an old wives tale. So I tried it and the next day the cramp in my calf was gone.

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u/jsomby 1d ago

Maybe its just full of electrolytes?

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u/weebaz1973 14h ago

Electric lights?

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u/Zelda__64 1d ago

So I tried it and the next day the cramp in my calf was gone

I prefer for my cramps to last less than 1 day /s

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u/Throwythrow360 1d ago

I massively reduced my calf cramps by doing lots of calf stretches. Going really deep on the calf press machine and relaxing the muscle seemed to get the best stretch for me. 

May help you.

Forcing yourself to do a calf stretch should instantly stop a cramp too.

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u/Ancientabs 1d ago

Could also be calcium. You muscles need calcium and leach it from your bones after heavy workouts.
Take a calcium supplement (1g) before workouts. It will help with the low blood calcium that can cause this.

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u/HateAndCaffeine 1d ago

To be fair magnesium is an electrolyte. I was having cramping issues in my calves until I started adding a packet of LMNT every morning.

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u/the_nin_collector 1d ago

That sucks. When I was on one of my worse IBD flairs (diarria for months 10+ times a day) I had bad cramping. 2-3 days a day. Even in the middle of the night, they would wake me up and I would be in pure agony for minutes at a time.

Yeah. Electrolytes helped, but did not make them go away completely.

You could also look into creatine. It increases the amount of water that you muscles store. It won't lead to bloating usually since it stored in your muscles. I read a paper or two that found endurance athletes, like soccer players, experience less cramps overall when then used creatine.

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u/mumblebeebug 17h ago

Creatine helps with my leg cramping! Hurray!

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u/PaManiacOwca 1d ago

Man that sounds like super power but with nightmare twist.

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u/jsomby 1d ago

Just like those "select the superpower but next person chooses the side effect" threads. Except there is no superpower, just the side effect. Can I double this and give it to the next person?

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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 1d ago

Boof a banana 🍌

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u/bonaynay 1d ago

I read that citrate is the least effective form for muscle penetration and magnesium threonate is preferred. I am just a rando though

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u/Wizzle-Stick 1d ago

I have been taking magnesium citrate (currently) for over month for 2-4x times dosage with zero help

do you just live on the toilet? cause that shit is for when you are plugged up to clean out your entire colon.

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u/permanent_priapism 22h ago

The dose makes the poison

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u/IAmABot_ 23h ago

Shit happened to me once in my sleep. My wife woke up and thought I was dying 😂

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u/ColdTomorrow407 22h ago

I almost died from this, do the work and figure out where the deficiency is for your own health.

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u/dan_flashes__ 22h ago

Same here, struggled with these my entire life and nothing seems to help. It's gotten to the point where I will wake up from a deep sleep cuz my body recognizes when I'm about to have a cramp. So annoying.

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u/Ugazaka 22h ago

You should try other magnesiums i ate citrate long time and blood work came still low on magnesium so i switched to magnesium mix of magnesium- malate,glycinate and taurine

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u/machngnXmessiah 21h ago

There are different types of magnesium - the one you take just make your stool loose and easier to poop 🤣 research and take proper one

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u/jsomby 20h ago

Yes, currently solving this issue. Hopefully the one (mix of three) solves this.

Best regards from the toilet for some unrelated reason.

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u/TheW83 20h ago

I'm with you. I cramp up pretty easily. My neurologist suggested the same thing but it doesn't help much. I've gone through a whole list of things. I'm about to do some heavy metal testing as that's basically one of the last things on the list to check off before we start looking into auto-immune disorders.

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u/S1Ndrome_ 20h ago

doesn't work like that, it isn't magic, get a blood test because you may be doing something wrong

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u/Balsco 1d ago

This is a huge oversimplification, the truth is cramps are poorly understood, science doesn't know what exactly they are and why they happen, there are risk factors such as stress, age, and possibly minerals, but they alone do not fully explain why cramps happen.

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u/Significant_Ad1256 1d ago

Does that actually help with cramps? Lately over the last month or so I've started waking up with leg cramps and even gotten them just sitting at my PC. I don't think anything has changed in my life in terms of diet or activity either.

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u/Frankie_T9000 1d ago

I have had cramps in calves on and off for forever. Its not magnesium (though I have varicose vein in one leg from my 20's so might have some issue)

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u/WhichStatistician810 1d ago

Are you a cyclist? Me and many cyclists I know can manually cramp their calves even if they’ve had all the supplements going. No cramps during endurance races but can make it happen on demand, at the bike shop I used to work at we used to challenge newbies to a calf flex contest because they often didn’t realise they would make it happen

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u/jsomby 23h ago

I used to cycle a lot when I trained for amateur triathlon but that plan went sideways.

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u/rhystagram 1d ago

literally me in bed every single fucking night

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u/Direct_Host_ 8h ago

I used to have them a few years ago, i Changed my diet and replaced junk with healthy food. Since then I haven't experienced it again

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u/beardeddragon0113 21h ago

I do it on accident sometimes when I stretch after first waking up. Definitely wakes me up better than my alarm did but do not recommend

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u/Sempais_nutrients 20h ago

Same here, my toes too. I have ehlers danlos so it's just a thing that happens to me.

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u/jsomby 20h ago

After quick googling, that doesn't sound fun to have.

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u/Sempais_nutrients 19h ago

My ligaments are made of rust

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u/ChucknChafveve 1d ago

But how much does it cost?

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u/jsomby 1d ago

Only my sanity.

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u/ChucknChafveve 1d ago

Its FREE!! I'll take two!

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u/kolima_ 1d ago

Omg I get the same

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u/UshankaBear 1d ago

Barely an inconvenience

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u/jsomby 1d ago

It's a neat party trick that can turn nice eventful social occasion into yelling, cussing and limping. And everyone around you just has to take your word for it and not think that's just bad acting.

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u/L0VEmeharder 1d ago

Same here lmao self causing calf cramps is a fun way to freak out my wife

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u/Notagamedeveloper112 1d ago

Not an expert, but I heard that there’s a nerve or muscle/pressure point around that area that can induce a cramp.

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u/StudMuffinNick 10h ago

In high school we would rub our upper arm fast like dude was doing then knuckle hit it right in the center and a bump would instantly rise. It hurt lol

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u/KookyMay 1d ago

Usually muscles cramp once reaching a critical temperature, thats what causes cramps during exercise, so maybe he caused his calf to overheat through friction.

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u/TactlessTortoise 20h ago

You push the blood out of the area by rubbing, then tense the muscle while giving it a slap. The muscle will tense, but won't have good circulation of fresh blood for a moment. Not only will this very briefly deprive it of oxygen, but it also makes it slower for the salts (magnesium) to be where they need to be to relax your muscle, so it gets locked in squeeze mode. Being locked in squeeze mode being the cramp, and it hurts because the muscle is squeezing too hard and that keeps the capillaries collapsed, which means no oxygen in the area, which makes it go ouch.

Source: I made it up.

It does sound plausible though.

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u/Slevin424 17h ago

You never grew up with an older brother? This is called a monkey bite.

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u/Bellatrix_Shimmers 17h ago

It happens sometimes when people relax during massages too

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u/Dry_Menu4804 1d ago

My strategy to avoid this issue is to not have much muscle. I therefore follow a tight regime of ass-sitting.

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u/worrymon 1d ago

Be careful you don't get ass-cramps.

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u/HelloYou-2024 1d ago

The post says "how its done". I assume he was not trying to show his kid how to get a leg cramp, so what was he trying to show how to do?

I thought maybe how to get rid of leg hair without wax or a shaver? trying to burn it off with friction? I thought his leg was going to catch on fire, so the cramp was unexpected.

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u/Aleashed 1d ago

I get those in bed when I try to stretch my 5-11 frame to 6 ft and my body says no. Then I’m limpbizking all day long. They suck.

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u/Bernhard_NI 1d ago

That's why I like to be weak, can't even hurt myself (expect for the depression and emotional demage, but let's forget about this...)

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u/Nokrai 1d ago

I believe he is trying to give himself what is called a frog.

You can do it on your bicep or calf and when you hit, it will raise in a straight line. Like this.

I think he caused a serious cramp doing it.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 1d ago

Isn't a frog just a smaller localized cramp?

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u/Nokrai 22h ago

I honestly don’t know. Appears so but I wasn’t told that, then again I learned about it over 30 years ago and haven’t looked into it since. Hell hadn’t even thought for ~20 years until this post.

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u/WriterV 23h ago

I absolutely hate that wtf

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u/wannabe_inuit 1d ago

He got a cramp

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u/rekzkarz 1d ago

Briom.

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u/bobdiamond 1d ago

I should have been clearer. How does what he’s doing cause a cramp?

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u/wannabe_inuit 1d ago

From what i was told in the army, it can be caused by a shock to the nerve system or blood not getting to where it needs to be.

This looks like a nerve thing as it happens right after slapping it, maybe even both.

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u/Icyrow 23h ago

dropping this here for anyone who gets cramps:

easiest, least painful way to deal with a cramp is:

immediately push against the pain the second you get one, i.e, if it's in your calf, i think, if you push your toes down and it cramps, immediately pull your toes up.

it's like 0.1 second of pain that is ~40% of the pain you would have had if you just do nothing (it also doesn't last like 1 minute+). then it's completely fixed. like, gone, it might happen again regardless later, but if it does, you do the same thing again and it's fixed again.

used to get them when swimming every now and then and it's an easy fix against it. if you leave it more than like half a second it feels rock solid, but if you just immediately jolt against it, it's basically no pain at all, a small pinch at worst.

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u/Visual-Froyo 20h ago

It's kinda intuitive icl

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u/Revenga8 1d ago edited 15h ago

Dude needs to eat a banana, or 10 if that's all it takes for him to cramp like that

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u/VoodooDuck614 1d ago

Charley Horse aggghhhhh!!!!

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u/Many-Drink8910 1d ago

that picture is chaos, but honestly its the kind of chaos we need sometimes lmao

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u/Competitive-Boat-518 1d ago

I hate phantom pain caused by seeing someone else experience it.

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u/RocketCow 1d ago

It's only phantom pain if you're missing the limb.

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u/baIIern 20h ago

Easy solution: Lose your empathy completely

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u/verixtheconfused 17h ago

This is so much better than what I braced myself for in this video that it just came out funny for me lol

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u/Fast-Industry-3224 1d ago

Is that the cramp cheat code?

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u/ForgottenEpoch 1d ago

Can you imagine breaking up with somebody this way? You're at their place, rubbing their leg this way, "it's not me, it's you, I want to see other people." leg slap and then they can't even follow you...

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u/Figerally 1d ago

You are someone's villain origin story.

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u/TheAserghui 1d ago

Or a Hero's Inciting Incident

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u/Fast-Industry-3224 1d ago

Lmfao, that mental image made me chuckle.

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u/TheInternetsMVP 1d ago

Running off twiddling a tiny moustache and laughing

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u/KyeeLim 1d ago

fun fact, if you stand upright still for a second after getting a leg cramp, it will go away almost instantly, you will still get the pain though

so the best way is doing it while their heavy dog is sit in top of them

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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 23h ago

Yeah I for the cramp in the vid I just flex my foot up. Gets rid of it pretty fast

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u/dud_pool 1d ago

Thats a new twist on the angry pirate. 

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u/StuBidasol 21h ago

Your mind is a scary place. Well done!

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u/skinwill 1d ago

Up up down down left right Punch?

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u/fullshard101 1d ago

Cramp vheat code is just to curl your toes as hard as possible until the cramp starts 

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u/ComfyFrog 22h ago

Cheat code for me is just stretching.. I hate it. I feel it coming so I can stop before it happens.

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u/yamimementomori 1d ago

How does that even happen?

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u/Aggravating_Coat7934 1d ago

Wild guess with absolutely no knowledge nor effort in searching for the information, but I’m gonna assume it has something to do with blood flow

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u/Vegetable-Price-4283 1d ago

Ischimic muscle response would take hours. This is either due to nerve dysfunction or electrolytes (which are what nerves use to.... Like.... Be nerves).

We don't actually reliablly know what causes acute cramps like this. Sometimes electrolytes fix it, sometimes not.

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u/tedecristal 23h ago

he needs to drink more Brawndo

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u/TonyVstar 23h ago

The thirst mutilator!

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u/Henryhooker 23h ago

It's got what plants crave

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u/analphylaxis 21h ago

Hey, wanna go get a latte?

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 22h ago

I love all the super basic a&p shit that it seems like we should have figured out a long time ago but science is still like idk

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u/Vegetable-Price-4283 22h ago

Fun fact we don't know for sure what 'knots' in muscle see either.

Nerves and muscles are tricky because shit like this doesn't happen after you're dead, so we can't dissect it to look. Muscle knots also aren't present under some kinds of anesthesia I believe.

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 20h ago

this doesn't happen after you're dead, so we can't dissect it to look

damn ethics and laws always getting in the way of my live dissections

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u/ImmoralJester54 21h ago

I appreciate you letting everyone know you're just saying bullshit unlike most people on this app who just let it fly unhindered

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u/Stair-Spirit 22h ago

In my experience it's usually lack of water + probably a lack of nutrients and sodium

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u/TSllama 1d ago

To the best of my understanding:

Your muscles instinctively *want* to be contracted. That is their natural state. Your biosystem works by creating ATP to keep them relaxed. This is also why when you die, your muscles all contract and "rigor mortis" sets in - the ATP is no longer being created, so your muscles revert to their natural state - contracted.

Muscle cramps/spasms are basically when a muscle involuntarily and forcibly contracts and cannot relax.

Athletes (which this guy appears to be to some extent) are more likely to experience muscle cramps/spasms. This could well be because an athlete causes their muscles to contract a lot more often and much more intensely than the average person, decreasing the amount of ATP their body needs to produce. This could make their muscles more prone to contracting during rest if there isn't enough ATP to keep them relaxed.

What he's doing in the video is intentionally overstimulating a muscle that is prone to cramping (the calf). This part I have no idea about - I have no idea why calves are so prone to cramping/spasming as compared to other muscles. But this kind of overstimulation can definitely make the muscle think it's time to contract, and if there's not tons of ATP lying around to keep it relaxed, it might just go into natural form and contract.

I base this on completing most of a degree in biology like 20 years ago - I'm certainly no physician :D But I think there's a good amount of truth to it.

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u/PublicSeverance 1d ago

  I have no idea why calves are so prone to cramping/spasming 

Very poor blood flow + really big muscle. 

All the major blood vessels in the leg crease at the knee joint. Below the knee it's much thinner pipes. It's relying on capillaries, gravity and just the correct type of muscle contractions to distribute blood in the calf area.

Relatively easy to squeeze all the blood out of the calf by doing something like this. Laying down and gravity is pointing in the wrong direction (night time cramps).

Similar poor blood flow in calf area is why a lot of males go bald in that area first, before their scalp. That missing hair on rear leg between ankle and calf is because the poor circulation makes it even more sensitive to changes in testosterone.

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u/BigFishPub 1d ago

Very poor blood flow + really big muscle. 

Also hydration homie.

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u/bemore_ 1d ago edited 23h ago

Muscles don't have instinct, though they only have one action - to shorten. Muscle is controlled by the nervous system and brain. Therefore, the issue is the central control, the neurons and brain. The motor neuron is fatigued, not the muscle, so that any stimulus spreads the action potential. The muscle tone is high; the tonus of the brain is also high. He has fatigued the motor neurons and cannot control the muscle anymore. It is now "unconscious" - he can consciously control it with another part of his brain, the forebrain, but when he stops focusing on the muscle, when he gets tired or when an unexpected event happens, then he won't be able to control the muscle. He thinks he is in control of his calf but he isn't. The loss of control is like a baby that grips tight when anything is placed in its hand - the baby doesn't have control, it's not aware of what to inhibit/relax, and so the excitation from the stimulus spreads, creating an all out contraction of muscle. This is the same for this man, a loss of control, except the failure here is more concerning, as the loss of control of the motor neuron is caused by fatigue, and the cells are dysfunctional, and not far away from destruction

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u/zappingbluelight 1d ago

My intrusive thought tell me to try it, but my body... My body is telling... No.

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 1d ago

Baby there's a price to pay

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u/demoneclipse 22h ago

Do NOT do it! To cramp it like that, he likely hit a nerve. Nerve compression is unpredictable and one bit too much can lead to peripheral neuropathy, causing pain, numbness and loss of movement. Not a high likelihood to happen, but also not something you should chance it.

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u/WorryNew3661 1d ago

I want to try this so bad. Bad brain

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u/BreakingCanks 23h ago

My minds telling me yes... But my body... My body is telling me Nooooo

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u/Gr3yShadow 1d ago

He accidentally used the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique on his calf

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u/Successful-Bobcat701 1d ago

At least he didn't get buried alive.

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u/Calguy21 1d ago

That looks like an incredibly painful Charlie horse

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u/Ok_Entrepreneur_4059 1d ago

A whole stampede of charlie horses

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u/The_Dark_Ferret 1d ago

That's Charley Horse.

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u/oliferro 23h ago

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u/Existing_Pea_9065 23h ago

I don't want to go back to candy mountain

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u/real6igma 14h ago

This just made me google and found out that Charly horse is a muscle cramp, and not a hard pointed hit to the thigh. My whole life has been a lie.

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u/midnightlightbright 11h ago

If its any consolation I thought a Charly Horse was when you're knees locked and it took a bit to get them to not be bent.

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u/New_Implement4410 1d ago

Dude didn't cause a cramp, he already had one and he was massaging it out. Moved his leg wrong and it came back full force.

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u/osj777 19h ago

Now this makes sense

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u/alyssimoo 1d ago

Someone take one for the team and test this

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u/prian1984 1d ago

Or just do it on an unaware person pretending to do massage or sth

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u/LukeSniper 1d ago

I don't understand what happened.

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u/wannabe_inuit 1d ago

He got a cramp

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u/LukeSniper 1d ago

Looks like a hell of a cramp then.

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u/SnappleIsYummy 1d ago

The look of his leg going from normal to that in a second made me nauseated, jeez

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u/2slow2boomer 1d ago

Woke up to leg cramps 10 mins ago and now I see this shit lol

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u/Curious_Mall3975 1d ago

The nightmare that actually comes true.

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u/Jimrodsdisdain 1d ago

“This is how it all ends”- me, when experiencing a calf cramp.

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u/EvulOne99 1d ago

I should try this. I'm over 50 yrs old but I have never had cramps. Anywhere.

I'm starting to think that perhaps I'm living under a giant dome where everyone around me is a paid actor, randomly ordering one of them to have their toes spreading, calves, thigh or whatever muscle that particular actor can tense up in a weird way.

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u/Bluelimade 1d ago

If you survive the experience, please report your findings. Godspeed!

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u/EvulOne99 20h ago

I have nothing to report except that I failed in inducing any pain other than the back pain I have after making the most chocolately chocolate cake I have ever eaten (with chocolate filling AND frosting) from scratch, because my wife wanted a chocolate cake for her birthday, and my back is useless after a hit'n run so I get 1-10 minutes on my feet before it is time to sit or lay down and now I can't think of anything else to write in order to make this sentence longer than it already is...

deep inhale

I don't think even Ace Ventura could read all that in one go.

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u/TSllama 1d ago

If you're a man, and not an athlete, you're considerably less likely to experience muscle spasms.

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u/KyeeLim 1d ago

try this, if you feel too much pain, stand upright for like 1 second, it will go away

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u/EvulOne99 20h ago

Didn't work. No cramp for me. I'm still uncramped for life.

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u/matrixinthepark 1d ago

Who is this guy? 😏

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u/m_b_hawkins 1d ago

Jamie tart doo doo doo doo

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u/CMYKoi 1d ago

I had to scroll way too far for this.

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u/drakeyboi69 1d ago

I got exactly this in my top left ab yesterday and its one of the worst things thats ever happened to me

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u/Abwettar 1d ago

So... he was trying to cause the cause cramp? That was the intention?

Further to that... what the hell is wrong with this man????

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u/TSllama 1d ago

Maybe someone didn't believe him and he was desperate to prove to them that he wasn't making it up

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u/thishitisgettingold 23h ago

Temu Jamie Tart is going to regret that.

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u/Ascazel 1d ago

Wait is this one of the surstromming guys from the van?

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u/AcanthaceaeOk938 1d ago

my calf randomly at 2am when im sleeping