Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Rude awakening
One thing that people warned me about when I got pregnant were muscle spasms. I would always think to myself "yeah yeah, I'm sure it's not that bad"... well it is! This last week I have been awaken 4 out of 5 nights with crazy muscle spasms in my calf muscles. The other night the pain in my left calf was so bad that it took me a couple of minutes to get it to go away and then in the morning it still hurt!!! So weird! Last night I was awaken again by a spasm in my right calf muscle and I was so tired that I couldn't think straight so it took me a long time to figure out which way to flex my foot to get the pain to subside. Not having to wake up to go to the bathroom has been a blessing but being rudely awaken by crazy pain in my calf muscles is definitely a curse of pregnancy!
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Oh my goodness - I used to get those all the time too. I'd wake up crying and Ben would be so worried. Put a bar of soap under the fitted sheet at the end of your bed. That should help - weird old wives tale thing. :)
ReplyDeleteAAHHH! I totally remember those. I'm so sorry you have to experience the awfullness.
ReplyDeleteOh, I remember those. I always got charlie horses during my pregnancy. It was horrible. I also threw up twice every day for the entire nine months. So thankfully you dont have that too! LOL.
ReplyDeleteI would just hop out of bed real quick and walk around, it sucks to have to get out of bed, but if you do it when it is just coming on it seems to stop it from happening! Sorry I know how much they hurt!!
ReplyDeleteI got them really bad and one thing that really helped was eating more bananas (for the potassium).It's supposed to help with muscle spasms.
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