Your out of shape.

 

Well if it's big enough it could be like a bannana I suppose

 

I give it a good PEEL!!!

 

You can tell that from me getting cramp once ?

Football players, some of the fittest people in the country get it, marathon runners get it as do overweight computer programmers digging trenches in the back garden.

As for it being age related, nah, dont get it any more or less than I used to.

Feel quite good after the fresh air and exercise, good job as I have a lot to do still. Not least laying 45 paving slabs, 9 down 36 to go !

 

well get back out there, lazy git

 

You could need more calcium.
I get this recurring cramp since I slipped a disc a couple of years back. Did some big time damage somewhere in there and it's led to weakness in the leg muscles.
Can empathise with anyone who suffers with this .
Yve

 

Yve, it been once in god knows how long, my diet is pretty good, fruit, nuts seeds and takeaways !

Dont get as many colds since I started eating better.

 

Still hurts like hell tho' if it's only once or every frippin' week. Diet sounds good. And yes, I'm the same, no colds hardly ever these days.
Yve

 

I had the mother of all cramps this morning 5 o'clock in the morning I woke up with what felt like someone sticking a red hot poker in my calf. I spent the next minute or so hopping around the bedroom uttering every profanity known to man. My leg still hurts now.

 

You deserve cramp for remembering that there was a thread on it 3 YEARS AGO and then reviving it

 

Had it once in the throat, and the only way to get rid of it seamed to be to try to swallow, which i remember being hard as hell and hurt quite a bit.

 

Ideally you should be drinking more than that. I used to make sure I drank at least 1 litre of water during the working day, regardless of the temperature, and usually ended up drinking about 2 litres in total.

Leg cramp is nasty. Only had it in my thigh once and it was agony... felt like the muscle was going to pop. That's when I was on the toilet trying to take a crap, so consider yourself lucky. Lol

 

Sh*t, only just noticed the date of the OP!

 

What sort of stretching?

 

I thought this was known as "Drinkers cramp".

I only seem to get it after a heavy session. I wake, then BANG! My leg is snapped back. It's agony, followed by swearing and hopping.

 

I woke up yesterday with cramp in both my legs I ended up rolling out of bed like some kind of cripple. Today Both my legs are bruised where I had cramp. No booze involved I guess a lack of potassium maybe.

 

 

I used to get that loads as a teen. Funny waking up and literally chucking yourself out of bed in agony.

Only get cramp now if very exhausted from work, like walking up and down stairs all day...in hot weather. Might wake up with a cramped calf.

 

***** weights.

 

I didn't think people had lino in their bedrooms any more

Chip

 

It is certainly very unpleasant and can feel uncontrollable. I find that if you are alive to it starting and move the muscles in the opposite direction quickly and hold it, it will often go away.

Les

 

Lack of salt i was told as i kept getting it when diving.