Yes , I get them now and again. When I used to paddle whitewater regularly 15 years ago , after playing on a rapid for 3 or 4 hours my forearms would go into spasm and they would have to be rubbed until they unlocked. Then when I got back into cycling I would occasionally get cramps in my calf which could be eased with rubbing and stretching. . But all this is nothing compared to the mother of all cramps that I started getting about 3 years ago.
They come in the evening or early hours but never in the day. Sometimes after cycling ,sometimes not. Brought on by movement. Just getting up off the floor or if I raise my knee towards my chest. What defines these cramps though, is their intensity. Always in the inner thigh, sometimes both, the sheer level of pain is many times worse than any cramp I have ever felt. They last about 7 to 10 minutes and nothing you do can ease them. The first time it happened my wife wanted to phone an amulance, it was that bad . "Don't be soft , you can't call an ambulance for cramp" I said... 7 minutes later, if I'd had an axe, I would have chopped the bloody thing off myself to get away from it! I am not ashamed to say that for the fist time since I was a little boy I cried in pain.
Next day, off to the Doctor who didn't seem to understand just how different these were from normal cramps and seemed to think I was being a bit of a baby.
Back home I Googled " inner thigh pain", which is perhaps what I should have done in the fist place. Turns out it is a not very common, but well known phenominum. ( Just not known by GPs obviously).
I found a US health forum with quite a few people who suffered with this. One woman who experienced them regularly described the pain as worse than the two times she went through childbirth ( This at least made me feel a bit better about the blubbing)
So ...turns out youv'e got to stay hydrated, get enough salt and watch out for one coming on. If I can straighten my leg in the first second of one starting I might just get away with it, otherwisw ,forget it.
Anyway, the point of this lenghty tome is...does anybody else get these?
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