doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (09/23/85)
> (I always wanted some sort of self-administered injector device, similar > to those issued to troops to give themselves a shot of atropine or > something into their thigh when exposed to nerve gas attack, to use to > jam into the damn cramping calf muscle and zap the cramp with some > chemical immediately, rather than having to put up with the pain until > the muscle decides to stop playing stupid games on its own. Ever since I was a kid, I've had occasional calf muscle cramps at night. For the first few years, I just endured the agony. Then I stumbled onto a simple cure, which will stop a calf muscle cramp instantly. Do the unthinkable. Stand up. No, it won't hurt more. The cramp will go away the instant you put your weight on that leg. (and, it's *natural* :-) -- Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (09/24/85)
In article <731@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: > >Ever since I was a kid, I've had occasional calf muscle cramps at night. >For the first few years, I just endured the agony. Then I stumbled onto >a simple cure, which will stop a calf muscle cramp instantly. >Do the unthinkable. Stand up. No, it won't hurt more. The cramp will >go away the instant you put your weight on that leg. >(and, it's *natural* :-) I never even considered *not getting up*! How could you not? But your cure doesn't always work. Oh, *eventually*, after hopping around a while, the cramped muscle will loosen up and massage will finish it off. But it isn't gone "the instant you put your weight on that leg" -- the act of putting weight on it naturally acts to counter the contraction, just like an earlier posting mentioned contracting the counter-acting muscle to reduce a cramping action. But it takes time. Plus, my wish for the chemical instant cure also was to do *something* to punish that damn muscle for insulting me by bothering me, especially for waking me out of a sound sleep just to play its damn stupid games... Remeber: *I* am my mind. My body is my enemy, because it does not exactly and unhesitatingly obey my mind's commands in every instance. That is what the "wholistic" types that insist on joining the mind and body keep forgetting; there are those of us that have no wish to continue enduring the imprisonment of our real selves -- our minds -- by these damn disgusting physical carcasses. We may be willing to put in a minimal amount of effort and attention to maintain the body for now, and to use it to stimulate the mind via the sensory organs, but otherwise we are just marking time until we can either become creatures of energy or at least have a proper mechanical mind-support system that is better than this organic lump we now have to endure. Will
piety@hplabs.UUCP (Bob Piety ) (09/27/85)
> In article <731@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: > > Ever since I was a kid, I've had occasional calf muscle cramps at night. > For the first few years, I just endured the agony. Then I stumbled onto > a simple cure, which will stop a calf muscle cramp instantly. > Do the unthinkable. Stand up. No, it won't hurt more. The cramp will > go away the instant you put your weight on that leg. > (and, it's *natural* :-) About 15 years ago, an MD told me to take 200 (or was is 400) units of vitamin E every day for such cramps. I did for a few years, then dropped to my present 50 or so that I get with multiple vitamins. Result? I have only had one cramp in 15 years since then. Maybe it works? Bob
sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) (09/29/85)
In article <1687@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin (DRXAL-RI) <wmartin>) writes: > >Plus, my wish for the chemical instant cure also was to do *something* >to punish that damn muscle for insulting me by bothering me, especially >for waking me out of a sound sleep just to play its damn stupid games... > >Remeber: *I* am my mind. My body is my enemy, because it does not >exactly and unhesitatingly obey my mind's commands in every instance. >That is what the "wholistic" types that insist on joining the mind and >body keep forgetting; there are those of us that have no wish to >continue enduring the imprisonment of our real selves -- our minds -- by >these damn disgusting physical carcasses. Whether you like it or not, the mind and body *are* inseparably linked, and more likely than not, your instant chemical cure will have effects not limited to curing your cramp. For example, it may have sedative effects, so that you sleep through your alarm and are late for work. Your mind is hardly able to function in such conditions. Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra
donch@teklabs.UUCP (Don Chitwood) (09/30/85)
My mother recently told me a cure she heard about for calf muscle cramps. Pinch your upper lip between your thumb and forefinger. Hmmm. That's too poor a description; try this one--with thumb and forefinger opposed as if to blow your nose, move them down so that they are between your nostils and your upper lip proper. Squeeze the part directly below the septum between your nostrils. This is supposedly an acupuncture (acupressure in this case) procedure and works for her every time.