Cramping Your Style

Health 3 Minutes

If you’re like me, you’ve experienced painful, sleep-disturbing leg cramps at some point. About 60% of people report experiencing nocturnal leg cramps. Nocturnal leg cramps — also commonly called charley horses — are painful, involuntary contractions of the leg muscles during the night. Although nocturnal leg cramps generally pass after a few minutes, they are unpleasant and can disrupt sleep enough to create problems. Usually, the calves and feet are most affected, and these cramps are more prevalent in women and older adults, but anyone can experience them.The exact causes of nocturnal leg cramps are unknown. However, there are some factors that may increase the chance of experiencing leg cramps during the night.

Medications: Some medications, like diuretics, steroids, and antidepressants, are associated with nocturnal leg cramping. Talk to your doctor about any medications you are taking if you experience leg cramps during the night.

Pregnancy: Leg cramps are a common experience in pregnant women, although some professionals consider pregnancy-related leg cramps different from nocturnal leg cramps. Researchers are unsure if this leg cramping occurs due to pregnancy itself, or because of a lack of blood flow in the veins as a result of pregnancy. Magnesium supplements have been shown to reduce leg cramping in pregnancy, but you should talk to your doctor before beginning any new supplements.

Dehydration: Not drinking enough water during the day can result in dehydration. Dehydration causes muscle weakness and cramping. Nocturnal leg cramps in particular are not associated with dehydration, but drinking water is still important. The exact amount of water you need to drink each day depends on your body weight, activity level, medications, and local climate.

Standing for Extended Periods: Being on your feet for long periods of time can increase the risk of experiencing these leg cramps, making them a problem for people who must stand while they work. Taking breaks from standing and setting aside time to elevate your feet may help.

Exercise: Exercising at the gym or through team sports may lead to muscle cramps. When muscles are fatigued or overworked, they can be more susceptible to cramping. Exercise-associated muscle cramps may be mistaken for nocturnal leg cramps when they occur at night. Stretching during an exercise-induced cramp has been shown to help relieve pain.

Alcohol:  Research of people over age 60 shows that those who drink alcohol are more likely to report nocturnal leg cramping. This cramping could be a result of alcohol’s ability to damage muscle fibers, but more research is needed.

So what can be done to reduce the likelihood of experiencing these awful cramps? Although the exact cause of nocturnal leg cramps is unknown, there are ways to reduce the chances that you will experience them. Typically, leg cramps do not indicate a serious health problem. However, if you are experiencing frequent leg cramping, you should reach out to your doctor, but here are some possible helpful precautions:

Hydration: Staying consistently hydrated throughout the day may help reduce the frequency of muscle cramps, since dehydration can cause cramps. Though some research suggests that nocturnal leg cramps are not caused by dehydration, it may help to drink water during long periods of outdoor activity or strenuous activity. There is also research to suggest that drinking pickle juice during a cramping episode helps inhibit the cramp quickly.

Stretching: Doing some stretching or yoga before bed may help you reduce both the frequency and intensity of nocturnal leg cramps. Research suggests that engaging in a stretching routine before bed helps reduce cramps and leg pain after about six weeks.

Baths: Some people claim that taking a bath helps relieve their nighttime cramps, though further research is needed. An epsom salt bath in particular could help reduce muscle pain mistaken for leg cramps. Epsom salt contains magnesium sulfate. An epsom salt bath could increase your magnesium levels, which may help relieve leg cramping.

Massage: Massaging your calves or feet before bed may help you reduce cramping during the night by relaxing the muscles in your legs. If you have limited mobility, consider asking a partner to help.

Heel Walking: Some people find that walking on their heels helps reduce nocturnal leg cramping. If you wake up in the middle of the night with a cramp in your calf, try getting up and walking on your heels. Although this type of walking helps release the tight calf muscle, research has found that it is not as effective as stretching during a leg cramp.

When to Talk to Your Doctor

If you are experiencing cramping in your feet and calves frequently during the night that does not go away with changes in lifestyle or diet, consult your doctor. In many cases, the cause of nocturnal leg cramps is unknown. Some leg cramps could indicate a more serious underlying disease, however, including:

Cardiovascular disease

Cirrhosis

Kidney disease

Osteoarthritis

Narrowing of the spinal canal

Nerve damage in legs

Circulation disorders

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  1. Morning All!
    my leg cramps are not frequent and almost always tied to not drinking enough water during the day. I started drinking a glass of water before bed every night and so far that has worked for me.

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    1. I can recall brief periods now and then that I had cramps in my calves when I went to bed. I also had a short period of what I think was true “restless leg” syndrome. It is a different cramping than from exertion and is truly completely out of the blue. Regular cramping can be relieved by getting up and walking around or kneading my calves – at least, for me. This was different – my entire legs from the mid-thigh down would just spasm all over, almost seizing up. It was awful, TBH, and I am glad it was only for a brief period. I can’t say not drinking water had anything to do with it – I hardly ever drank water. Out of the hose if I was sweating and hot from working outside – that was about it.

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      1. I’ve never experienced the restless leg thing.
        but i know when i’m nt drinking enough water, i can get them at night…they are quite frankly a bitch.

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  10. when in doubt, change the rules to suit you…dems adopt don’t test (for cv) because they want their IRA bill to pass

    Senate Democrats adopt unofficial “Don’t Test, Don’t Tell” protocol as Inflation Reduction Act nears finish line https://t.co/jzvgg2S36O pic.twitter.com/UGFFEVp4bG

    — Katherine Doyle (@katiadoyl) August 5, 2022

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  11. Crackerb Barrel gets an earful afte adding meatless sausage to their menu
    FTA
    In a post to its Facebook account, the iconic American diner announced it will begin carrying Impossible Sausage, a meatless breakfast patty made from plants. The option is now available on the restaurant’s Build Your Own Breakfast menu and needless to say the responses did not meet the restaurant’s enthusiasm for plant-based products.

    “You just lost the customer base, congratulations on being woke and going broke,” commented one user.

    “Don’t you ever try to push that cr** in my direction. Stick to the basics that made your franchise a success,” wrote another Facebook user.

    “Are you kidding me? Who do you think your customer base is? I still order the double meat breakfast and it’s not even on the menu anymore,” wrote another user.

    “I only eat vegetables I can recognize,” wrote someone else on Facebook.

    “I just lost respect for a once great Tennessee company,” wrote another irate customer.

    https://www.fox9.com/news/congratulations-on-being-woke-cracker-barrel-customers-irate-over-adding-plant-based-sausage-to-menu

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  15. Happy Birthday Sir!!! Vet Guillermo Rey turns 100!!
    FTA
    At 19 years old, he joined the Navy and served during WWII. While in the Navy, he traveled to San Francisco, Cuba, Scotland and Japan. But once he was discharged, he jumped on a freight train to California with only $10 to his name.

    “At that time, everybody was going to California on the train. It was an experience,” Rey said.

    Rey worked various jobs before landing in the restaurant business.

    “I’ve been in the restaurant business for 50 some odd years,” Rey said.

    And his family still runs the Mexican restaurant he opened in 1973 called Casa del Rey. There are locations in San Dimas and Sierra Madre.

    “His life, I think, can be a reminder that we can hopefully heal and move on and see decades of a good life. I’m very grateful to him and all vets for their service,” said Dolores Ramos, Rey’s daughter.

    The family plans to celebrate Rey’s life with a big party of 160 people with all the things he loves: family, friends and a mariachi band.

    https://abc7.com/navy-veteran-abc7-salutes-100-years-old/12099622/

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  16. Good morning! Sliding down to pass this on – Patty e-mailed this to me – video of Mike Adams, Health Ranger, posted by State of the Nation. I’ve got thunder and light rain beginning – we are in the “minor risk” area for strong storms so if I disappear…….I’ve taken down most of the feeders and moved some other planters just in case…..still no wind…..rolling thunder. I do love a good storm – it’s just the wind I hate!

    ANALYSIS: Nancy Pelosi is working with China to create SMOKE SCREEN for attack against America (Video)

    https://stateofthenation.co/?p=127180

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      1. Um…..interesting at least. It certainly is the exact opposite of the Hopium that China, Russia, SA, etc., etc. are all working together with Trump. Adams’ wife is from Taiwan, he lived in Taiwan, speaks Chinese, etc., etc. so it’s hard not to give him credence on this.

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          1. The infrastructure via 5G is now in place and I read recently that the US has the most cameras in place than any other country. You would think that would be China. I think semi-conductors are just one spoke on the wheel – look at where the majority of our medicine is manufactured! Lithium is also a biggie.

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  19. OK – this looks to be audio only but it is the WHOLE thing – 7 minutes long instead of just under 2 minutes. He goes into the guys’ being from Nigeria who allegedly attacked Juicy and some other stuff.

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        1. can’t be as bad as wanda sykes!
          i bought a comedy dvd of hers one year for hubby for Christmas–we watched all of maybe 3 minutes before throwing it in the trash.

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  26. EXCERPTS: “What’s the most valuable commodity in the world? Grain, coffee, precious metals? No. Data are now the world’s single most valuable commodity. A commodity, as you know, is something that is bought and sold. That means data are being bought and sold. To be more specific, your data are being bought and sold.
    —————
    Before going any further, it’s important to get our definitions in order. Also known as information brokers, data brokers collect information on netizens and sell their findings for a healthy profit. As Shimon Braithwaite, a cybersecurity specialist, recently noted, data brokers are shrewd operators.

    Like raccoons scavenging for leftovers, data brokers are relentless, often approaching credit card companies for information. They can also be found “crawling the internet for public sources of information (such as social media like LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook etc.) and many other legal means,” Braithwaite writes.

    Each year, the data brokerage industry generates well over $200 billion of revenue, according to Braithwaite. This industry is growing at exponential rates. By 2030, it will be worth trillions of dollars.
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    Three of the biggest data abusers on the market, as Bryan Short, an analyst at Open Media, recently discussed are Clearview AI, Thomson Reuters, and Pelmorex Corp. Let’s start with Clearview, a facial recognition behemoth that provides software to companies, law enforcement, and universities. Headquartered in New York, the company “stole billions of images of our faces from the Internet,” according to Short, violating a number of privacy laws. While Clearview AI profits handsomely from harvesting our data and basically stealing our faces, it offers “no tangible benefit to the people.”
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    Thomson Reuters, we’re told, “combines this data and sells it to whoever is interested.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is most certainly interested. According to credible reports, ICE has a contract with Thomson Reuters worth north of $100 million. Despite privacy laws, ICE uses this information to spy on tens of millions of Americans.
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    Finally, there’s Pelmorex. Maybe you’ve never heard of this company, but, as Short stressed in his piece, they’ve definitely heard of you. You see, every single time you check for weather updates on your phone, tablet, or laptop, “you’re giving them a little piece of data about yourself.”

    For more than 30 years, according to the company’s website, “Pelmorex Weather Networks has been refining the way it delivers weather information and data. Always with an eye on the latest technology,” and always with an eye on your online activities, by all accounts.

    Besides owning and operating The Weather Network, Pelmorex also has a major stake in Weather Source, a U.S.-based organization that offers users present and forecast weather data. With more than 60 million users, Pelmorex has access to unfathomable amounts of data. That supposedly benign weather app on your phone is not so benign after all.

    Then again, with the harvesting of data, nothing is benign. Protect yourself, and turn off location tracking. When asked if it’s OK to share your information with third parties (such as government agencies), please say no. This won’t keep you completely safe, of course. But it’s a good start.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/data-theft-and-government-power/

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  27. EXCERPT: Reading Deborah Birx’s badly written, poorly edited The Silent Invasion, published at the end of April 2022, is not easy. In fact, it’s mind-numbingly tedious, especially if you try to read every word and not skim over the myriad digressions, repetitions, and multi-paged meanderings. Nevertheless, according to The Atlantic, it is “the most revealing pandemic book yet,” detailing how “Trump’s team botched the pandemic.”

    I agree that this 521-page “excruciating story” (as The New York Times calls it) is indeed revealing. However, it has little to do with Trump or what The Atlantic might consider pandemic botching. The most revealing parts of the book are:

    1) the claims about Birx herself that, upon close inspection, make little sense, contain strange inconsistencies, or contradict other claims made in the book and elsewhere; and

    2) the absurd claims about epidemiology and public health generally, and SARS-CoV-2 specifically, endlessly repeated by Birx as scientific truths when in fact they are anything but.

    Investigating these claims is important because they touch on crucial pandemic questions: Who made the terrible pandemic policy decisions and, perhaps most mysteriously and importantly, why?

    Here I investigate the obfuscation surrounding Deborah Birx’s appointment as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, and then the garbage science she so forcefully pushed once she got there.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/

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  29. EXCERPT: “Why pay for a hotel room by the hour when you can get a dining shed for free! Empty restaurant sheds — derided by critics as havens for the homeless, makeshift toilets and rat traps — are now providing a place for raunchy al fresco quickies.

    One XXX-rated scene caught on video by a horrified Greenwich Village resident heading out to work on a recent morning shows a man and woman in a Cornelia Street dining hut getting down and dirty. The woman is seen performing oral sex on her paramour, who is laying on top of a suitcase, his head propped up on the shed’s plywood wall. A tall, open beverage can sits next to him during the romp. When the woman realizes she has been caught on camera, she stops what she’s doing, raises her head and says, “No!”
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    The city’s Open Restaurant program, which allowed the dining sheds to proliferate at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to boost the struggling restaurant industry, is now being challenged in two lawsuits. There are 12,556 restaurants in the program, which the city wants to make permanent. That effort is on hold while the city appeals an October 2021 suit.

    The latest suit, filed last week, argues that the public health emergency measures that gave rise to the sheds have ended.
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    Lower East Side resident Marcell Rocha said in his lawsuit affidavit “The blocks are VOMIT AND URINE SWAMPS every morning.” “The spaces between the sheds are now public bathrooms for anyone to urinate, vomit, do drugs, sleep and do whatever else they want inside,” Rocha said. He told The Post he had seen a couple having sex in an Orchard Street shed last fall while walking by with friends who lived elsewhere and who found it amusing. “I was sort of like ‘C’mon, I live here. It’s not a laughing matter’, ” said Rocha, 42, a fashion stylist.

    Mayor Eric Adams said Monday he supported outdoor dining, but that the structures had to be standardized.”

    Pictures (you may want to skip that…..just sayin’): https://nypost.com/2022/08/06/couples-put-on-x-rated-shows-in-nycs-dining-sheds/

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    1. they allow the homeless camps, the drug camps, the injection sites, what do they expect? services intended for the poor are going to illegals…

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  30. EXCERPT: “Top 10 “aliases” for vaccine-induced carnage blamed on the Fauci Flu:

    – Long covid (long haulers)
    – SADS or SIDS
    – Chronic inflammation
    – Rare blood clots
    – COVID relapse
    – Heart attack from cold shower
    – Heart attack from referee or umpire whistle
    – Nerve damage
    – Sensory changes
    – Heart palpitations
    – Chronic and severe inflammation caused by spike proteins clogging the vascular system now exacerbating all pre-existing conditions, diseases, disorders

    If you got a spike protein injection, or two, or three, or four, you are most likely suffering EVEN WORSE from preexisting conditions, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, severe allergies and dementia. Spike proteins clog the entire vascular system, causing severe and chronic inflammation, which is the root cause of nearly every disease and disorder known to mankind.

    Are your ears constantly ringing since you got injected with a spike protein payload (J&J) or mRNA (Pfizer or Moderna jabs)? Have you lost a good portion of your vision, hearing or sense of smell and taste? That’s not “Long Covid” — that’s damage from the gene therapy injections. They should call it “Long Vaccine.”

    Have you caught “Covid” multiple times, even though you’ve been vaccinated repeatedly against it? You might have ADE or an auto-immune disorder caused by the Fauci Flu jabs. Did you have a Covid relapse? That’s probably because the vaccines don’t work or you were prescribed Pfizer’s Paxlovid, which causes that relapse or “rebound” of Covid, like what’s happening right now to the demented Resident Biden.

    If you have nerve damage, blood clots, dementia or myocarditis “out of the blue” since your gene therapy injections, it’s NOT a coincidence, and it’s not “Long Covid.” Fauci lied. He made it all up. That’s why you need to bookmark Vaccines.news to your favorite independent websites for updates on experimental “vaccines” that cause blood clots, myocarditis and severe, chronic inflammation.”

    https://basedunderground.com/2022/08/06/top-10-aliases-for-vaxx-induced-injuries-blamed-on-covid/

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  32. Veteran Pillsbury spokesman Pop N. Fresh died Wednesday of a severe yeast infection. He was 71.

    He was buried Friday in one of the biggest funerals in years. Dozens of celebrities turned out including Mrs. Butterworth, the California Raisins, Hungry Jack, Betty Crocker, and the Hostess Twinkies.

    The graveside was piled high with flours, as longtime friend Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy, describing Fresh as a man who “never knew he was kneaded”.

    Fresh rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a smart cookie, and wasted much of his dough on half-baked schemes.

    Still, even as a crusty old man, he was a roll model to millions. Fresh is survived by his second wife. They had two children, and one in the oven.

    The funeral was at 3:50 for 20 minutes.

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    1. LOL

      OHHHHHH…you just made me remember! when i was at my mom’s we were talking about making certain foods and i asked her if she ever heard of velveeta cheese in a packet–she said sure…went to the cabient and handed me one! we haven’t tried it yet, but at least I can now…
      and when we were at walmart this past time, I asked the clerk in the velveeta aisle if he ever heard of it? he said yeah–we have that. I said I’ve been looking every time i come here. he said it’s not here in this aisle…it’s in with the mac & cheese stuff…sure enough …one little space held boxes of 3 pouches! so if we like them, I can get it!!!
      thanks so much for telling me about it!

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  34. Several of Hitler’s Generals disappeared after the war, and became animal doctors. Because they were Veteran Aryans.
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    I just read that a veteran policeman has been suspended from his job…after being caught masturbating and smoking weed in his office. No name was given but he was a high wanking officer.
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    The army was deciding on how much weaponry should be provided to each unit and each soldier. For this, they set up a committee and the veteran General Samuel Foot was chosen to be the head of it. The newspapers got wind of this and published it on the front page. The headline was “Foot Heads Arms Body.”
    ———-
    Interview with WW2 RAF veteran
    I(nterviewer): Welcome to the Show, we’re here to interview WW2 RAF veteran Johnson about his experience. Tell me, was flying for the RAF difficult?

    J(ohnson): Most certainly. I can remember this time I did a reconnaissance and suddenly there’s a German fokker behind me, one fokker in front of me and two fokkers to my right!

    I: For our viewers who don’t know, Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer which the Germans confiscated.

    J: That might be, but those fokkers where flying Heinkels!

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  38. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  40. Apparently, plans are being made for Piper to take a trip overseas somewhere next year…..a school trip, not sure where yet. Passport being updated. Originally, it was to be Eastern Europe but given what’s going on Ukraine…..not sure what to think at this point.

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  41. A college teacher reminds her class of the next day’s final exam. “Now class, I won’t tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that’s it, no other excuses whatsoever!”

    A smart-ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion? The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence is restored, the teacher smiles knowingly at the student, shakes her head sweetly.

    Well, I guess you’d have to write the exam with your other hand.
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    1. this is in the comments to an article about the cdc’s instructions on how to have sex when you have moneypox…

      William Cooper • 3 hours ago

      There is no monkeypox outbreak. What these members of the men-having-sex-with-men ‘community” are getting doesn’t look like MP because the lesions are localized whereas with MP they cover the entire body. So this is probably some form of genital herpes that was dormant but became active due to the non-vaccine and its immunosuppressive effects. The MHSWM’s as a group went in big for the jab. In addition there has been a sharp rise in cases of shingles in vaxxed individuals. Shingles and monkeypox have an almost identical clinical presentation. A regional government in Australia used the same picture to illustrate both conditions. Monkeypox is very difficult to transmit and it has always been confined to central Africa and a couple of other third world countries. The best way to avoid it is by not having close physical contact with monkeys who have running sores on their bodies. In the Congo

      https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/08/oh-joy-the-centers-for-democrat-control-and-perversion-cdc-has-sex-advice-for-monkeypoxxed-americans

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  50. Well, it’s about that time. We still haven’t gotten more than 10 minutes of decent rain, altho it’s been cloudy most of the day and not terribly hot, thankfully. Signing off for the night! Hope everyone has a good one!

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