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There needs to be a much more awful sounding word for when it feels like your calf muscle is spontaneously trying to violently tear itself off of your leg.
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Oct 29, 2018 11:00
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it feels really good when you stretch it out though. Also drink more water.
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Oct 29, 2018 11:02
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The "charley" is charles manson. That's pretty bad.
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Oct 29, 2018 11:15
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There should be a body-horror movie where a guy suddenly has severe leg pain and is screaming and then right after his wife tries to tell him "honey, it's just a charley horse" a hideous creature rips through and emerges from the guy's leg
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Oct 29, 2018 11:22
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drink more water
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Oct 29, 2018 11:23
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i thought charley horses were in the thighs? in any case, calf cramps are crazy and one of worst pains ive ever had
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Oct 29, 2018 11:33
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i used to get these a lot and gently caress its awful, i had to phone in late to work the first time cause i didnt deal with it properly at all and i could barely walk for a few hours.
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Oct 29, 2018 12:06
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lizardman posted:There should be a body-horror movie where a guy suddenly has severe leg pain and is screaming and then right after his wife tries to tell him "honey, it's just a charley horse" a hideous creature rips through and emerges from the guy's leg I think in the book The Long Walk, the first kid to die develops a sudden charlie horse and is executed while pleading how unfair it is.
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Oct 29, 2018 12:09
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Do we know why they're called that? Who was Charley, and why was he such a bastard?
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Oct 29, 2018 12:32
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Shin00bie posted:Do we know why they're called that? Who was Charley, and why was he such a bastard? i mean if it was named by the people who suffered it it'd just be called an aaaAAAAGGGGHHH hh hh hh hhsssssss
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Oct 29, 2018 12:39
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Shin00bie posted:Do we know why they're called that? Who was Charley, and why was he such a bastard? it comes from the longer saying "Charley, I feel like I've been kicked in the thigh by a horse!"
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Oct 29, 2018 12:45
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why not thigh horse then
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Oct 29, 2018 12:55
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yeah or painey leg
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Oct 29, 2018 13:05
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I got a severe Charley horse in the deep end of the local swimming pools, right as the lifeguards were shepherding everyone out at closing. “I’ll just swim to the end and get out” I said. gently caress me. Thank black Jesus for those lane ropes, my calf was so hosed up I could not stand at all for a good half hour after I dragged my rear end out of the pool.
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Oct 29, 2018 13:20
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Hmmmmm
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Oct 29, 2018 13:22
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I thought a Charley Horse was giving someone a good punch on a spot like your thigh, not just any old cramp.
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Oct 29, 2018 13:32
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Milo and POTUS posted:why not thigh horse then bring back old gbs posted:yeah or painey leg these are both terrible ideas, you must be suffering from charley turtle!
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Oct 29, 2018 13:35
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Mozi posted:these are both terrible ideas, you must be suffering from charley turtle! i like pain
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Oct 29, 2018 13:42
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I'm pretty sure someone just said it once and it stuck for no reason. A Charley Horse is different from a cramp. A cramp is an owie that stretches out easy. A Charley Horse puts you on your rear end until you can get it stretched out. It just needed a name. When I was a kid, we called it a "Chuck Horse" as we were close friends. Way too formal to call it a "Charles Horse".
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Oct 29, 2018 13:45
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It's cAllee a dead leg in a lot of places internationally
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Oct 29, 2018 13:46
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A dead leg is different to a charley horse, they are incapasitatingly painful. It’s the difference between a headache and a migraine. Charley horses make the muscle a weird distorted lumpy mess, I always found the muscle effected was rock hard until I kneaded it out.
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Oct 29, 2018 13:49
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I sometimes get a cool muscle spasm in my neck and it owns.
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Oct 29, 2018 13:55
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504 posted:A dead leg is different to a charley horse, they are incapasitatingly painful. It’s the difference between a headache and a migraine. what is incapasitatingly (sic) painful, the charles horse?
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Oct 29, 2018 14:27
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Mooey Cow posted:I sometimes get a cool muscle spasm in my neck and it owns.  in a circular motion for about five minutes on each side, moving it slightly up and down to hit all the spots. Then do the same for the infraspinatus fascia which is the flat smooth part that has little dips and valleys in it here  They're both huge byways for connective tissue in the back and are in my opinion the main stress areas that effect the neck, arms, erector spinae around the spine, and even down into the sciatic area. Starting with the QL tends to loosen up the upper back and make it easier to work out the scapula issues Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Oct 29, 2018 14:47
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When I was a kid, a "charley horse" was specifically a muscle cramp in your thigh, not your calf. I vaguely remember getting them, but I don't remember what caused them. Just running around? Did they happen spontaneously or as a result of tripping or getting kicked? The excruciating calf cramp thing didn't start happening until adulthood.
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Oct 29, 2018 14:52
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at least you can stretch a calf cramp out eventually, good luck finding a way to make a sartorius cramp go away and then every time you think about it for the next 8 hours it it feels like it's coming back.
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Oct 29, 2018 15:15
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ArmZ posted:drink more water tetsuo posted:it feels really good when you stretch it out though.
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Oct 29, 2018 15:24
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Apparently I didn’t know what a charley horse was until today
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Oct 29, 2018 15:51
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Magnesium supplements help. I haven't had a single muscle cramp since I started taking one daily.
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Oct 29, 2018 15:52
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protip: If you feel one coming on and you react quickly you can prevent it from seizing. What you need to do is immediately do the opposite of pointing your toe. You have to be fast though.
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Oct 29, 2018 15:56
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Charles means warrior, it’s evocative of a horseman riding you down
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Oct 29, 2018 15:59
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Shemp the Stooge posted:protip: If you feel one coming on and you react quickly you can prevent it from seizing. What you need to do immediately do the opposite of pointing your toe. You have to be fast though. The problem is that if it's cramping really really hard, doing this will in fact not work and the end result is that your leg will be hosed for something like a week straight because of the muscle violently fighting compressing anyway, or whatever it is it does. I've only had this happen once, but it's really hosed up when it does.
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Oct 29, 2018 16:01
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Did you get it from a power sex move, OP?
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Oct 29, 2018 16:02
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It’s a reference to Charlton Horsey, an industrial era well-to-do who had an exaggerated chad like walk and was famous for kicking the calves of slow walkers.
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Oct 29, 2018 16:09
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rename them gnarly horses, imo
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Oct 29, 2018 16:17
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Ever get one of those cramps under your tongue? Those suck.
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Oct 29, 2018 16:17
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Kullik posted:i used to get these a lot and gently caress its awful, i had to phone in late to work the first time cause i didnt deal with it properly at all and i could barely walk for a few hours. Lmbo Anyway the best remedy for charley horses: Club soda. Works every time I wonder if charley horses happen more if your inactive though cause I seem to only get them when I’ve been super inactive for a long time
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Oct 29, 2018 16:20
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This isn't really a charley horse, but I once pulled one of the muscles between my ribs sneezing, and it hurt so loving bad I thought I was having a heart attack. loving muscles.
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Oct 29, 2018 16:25
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Richard horse is worse.
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Oct 29, 2018 16:28
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Icochet posted:The "charley" is charles manson. That's pretty bad. And the "horse" is slang for heroin
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