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Sat 28 Oct, 2006 07:04 pm
I can't believe I am posting a topic here, but here it goes.
I am (as no doubt are we all) increasing my exercise.
One of the things I do is walk to work as many days as I can, and part of the way home. That's roughly 55 minutes in the am, and 20 in the pm.
Why oh why on some days can I herb along effortlessly (like last Thursday) and barely notice anything (until the last hill in the am) and other days feel like I am having to force myself to put one leg in front of the other, and am really tired when I get to work? Some variation I understand, or when I am ill, but this is nuts.
They used to explain this by some set of cycles (I forget the phrases).
I dunno. Me, I'd say there are changes in body chemistry that underlie other explanations.
Curious. You do everything else with consistency? Same amount of sleep every night? Eating habits more or less the same? How about water intake?
I know what you mean, sister. Some days one feels like one is walking in cement.
Hmmm....my habits can vary quite a lot...water I usually drink a lot of.
Sleep etc can go up and down.
Here's another thing...I often get crampy later in the night after exercise.
That's some damn simple thing I need to take, isn't it?
I remember my mother having foot and leg cramps, and now, g.d.it, I have them too, fairly rarely, but enough to freak me out.
Thinking, potassium.. but not at all sure.
Crampy crampy!
I easily have cramps triggered by leg position etc.
It's worse in my "bad" leg........I have a chronic lower back problem, especially on the left side, and that leg is more vulnerable.
ossobuco wrote:I remember my mother having foot and leg cramps, and now, g.d.it, I have them too, fairly rarely, but enough to freak me out.
Thinking, potassium.. but not at all sure.
I swear it is more common as one gets older!
Calcium and magnesium (can be found together in one pill) is supposed to be good for muscle cramps. (if I said 'crampy' it would be in reference to girlie problems).
littlek wrote:Calcium and magnesium (can be found together in one pill) is supposed to be good for muscle cramps. (if I said 'crampy' it would be in reference to girlie problems).
You guys call em charlie horses, or something weird like that, don't you?
In looking up calcium-magnesium (calmag) I noticed something I'd seen associated with leg cramps before. Diabetes can trigger leg cramps.
More about leg cramps:
http://www.dmt123.com/alternative-medicine/1702-dmt123.html
Charlie horse is sort of an old-fashioned term by now. Most people call them <part of body> cramps.
While I was immediately fascinated by the lumbar plexus material!!!!
Which also explains why my left leg is also prone to becoming a little oedematous when my back is especially bad...I always thought the lymphatic system was affected..perhaps by chronic inflammation and/or pressure.
tuning in... I have lumbar stuff from my damn eyes, missing curbs and jerking self around, over decades. I have relatively light symptoms, a few back whackos over the years where I can barely stand, but they mostly go away.
and, as we all know, a lot of people have this, so I prefer not to whine.
But... cramps are creepy.
I eat a lot of calcium rich foods... perhaps I'm missing magnesium...
Creepy... as in This Will Never Stop, scary.
Do you eat the same thing for breakfast every day? I'm wondering if the high energy walks might come after a higher carb breakfast and the low energy walks following a high protein meal.
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