> Mike:
>
> I have had a similar problem only in my calf and thigh muscles mostly at
> night, but any hour of the day is possible. My physician hasn't
If you are getting "charlie horses", try suitable stretching exercises.
Even at my age I exercise a lot.
Face the wall, put your hands against the wall, then while leaning against
the wall, move your feet back. This will put the weight on the balls of your
feed. Now push down with your heels until your feet are flat on the floor.
(Don't over do!) You should feel it pull in your calf muscles.
Even with all the exercise, biking, flying (rudder uses legs a lot)and tower
climbing I would find that a plain old stretch in the morning would really
cramp up my calf muscles. (Charlie Horses). The muscles would knot up to
where you could cup the knot in you palm. That hurt! The simple
stretching exercise above completely eliminated them.
Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com
> diagnosed the cause yet, but he has said drinking quinine water
> occasionally will help (most of the time you'll find it on the grocery
> store mixer shelves as "tonic water with quinine". Also a recent column
> by a couple physicians in a local newspaper suggested occasionally
> eating a teaspoon of mustard (really) can help alleviate muscle cramps.
> These two docs that wrote the newspaper column suggested actually
> keeping some of those mustard packets that you get with a hamburger or
> hotdog, handy.
>
> Friday night while at Ham Com in Arlington TX I woke up about midnight
> with severe leg cramps that about drove me crazy. At home I keep one of
> those large handle mount vibrators that I massage my calf muscles with
> when this happens at home, but I didn't have it with me Saturday. First
> thing Saturday I went out from the hotel and found a grocery that
> carried tonic/quinine water. I downed a liter of it and haven't had a
> leg cramp since.
>
> At home we keep a couple 2 liters of it and if I feel a cramp coming on
> I quickly go drink a large glass of it and walk to massage the calf
> muscles and the combination seems to alleviate the cramp.
>
> As an aside in my much younger days I played in a slow pitch softball
> league and took calcium supplements to alleviate muscle pulls, plus I'd
> walk about a mile in warm-up about an hour before a game.
>
> Tom, WW5L
>
>
>
> Mike Wetzel wrote:
>
>>While working on top a tower yesterday at 140, in 90 degree, sunny,
>>breezy
>>weather, I developed cramps in both arm biceps and decided I needed to
>>come
>>down fairly quickly. Besides the ideas of eating bananas (potassium) and
>>drinking water are there any other suggestions as a way to avoid them?
>>
>>Mike W9RE
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