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Ouch!
Oh my flipping legs. I used to have this problem years ago where sometimes I would stretch out my legs (for example when yawning in bed) and I would seem to pull a calf muscle. This is the most painful thing ever, it feels like something has snapped inside and I role around shouting expletives.
The odd thing is that in the past I have, once or twice, done this on purpose while having a scary dream. It's as though the dreaming self knows it can awake me from the nightmare with pain and so stretches my leg until something goes "ping". I'm not very grateful to the dreaming Harry as I can cope fine with scary dreams thank you but not waking to the feeling of having a hot knife thrust into my calf.
Thankfully I've not pulled a muscle in this way for a long time, years in fact. Until that is, a few weeks ago. While stretching in front of the TV one evening my left calf muscle went "ping" and my beloved L was treated to me rolling around like a loon screaming bloody murder. After that it was rather difficult to walk for a few days.
Well this morning was even worse. I pinged my other leg while asleep, though I wasn't having a bad dream. I woke up in agony shouting in pain and threw in a rather cheesy "oh ouch my leg" so L wouldn't think I was having a heart attack. It really hurt, more so than the other leg a few weeks ago.
And now I'm wondering if I really am pulling a muscle, or perhaps doing something else. Could this be some form of cramp? If so I didn't think cramp could hurt this much, it really is agony and I'm struggling to walk today. Whatever it is, it's bloody annoying and rather painful.
This entry was posted on July 21st, 2006 at 12:49 by Harry and is filed under Life.
6 comments
Definitely cramp. I used to get something that sounds similar when I jogged a lot. Feels like the calf muscle has split in two along its length. Very very bloody painful and certainly not a nice thing to wake up to :-(
I know I probably don't eat enough salt. I don't eat much processed food and never put salt on anything. I think I've gone too far the other way with the whole salt thing.
And yes it does feel like something has split the muscle. Most amazingly painful thing. It's about the only pain that has me shouting out loud.
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