I was kicked back in my recliner listening to the tube, laptop in my lap...dogs were sprawled out on the leg rest. I shifted my right leg a little and it happened...the muscles in my right calf contracted and wouldn't letup. It went on for about 3 minutes...the most excruciating pain I've ever experienced. I was helpless, nothing I tried helped, I just had to wait it out. I'm sure some of you can relate.

Had a hammy cramp the other night loading a piece of wood into the insert. Like an ice pick, but didn't last 3 minutes, than goodness.

Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome

Worst pain I’ve ever experienced

I had never heard of it until I got it


https://www.burningnightscrps....ufferers/pain-scale/


I was on several hundred (yes hundred) mgs of OxyContin and hyrdomorphone, didn’t help

On one visit to the ER I asked the doctor to amputate my leg....but apparently CRPS continues with phantom limb syndrome

Injections into my spine help control it....


But when people asked me what my pain level was on a 1 to 10 I had no idea what a 10 really was....

I used to get painful cramps in my feet and calves. Then I began taking a daily magnesium supplement (for a different reason). A week later I realized that those cramps had ceased. I continued the magnesium supplement, and the cramps have never returned.

Athletes look like pussies until we first experience that.....

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Ab-so-freaking-LUTELY!!!

p.s. I thought the OP was gonna say he got a kidney stone.

I get calf cramps often, as do many people. Older people especially get night cramps. The only treatment is quinine, which they had the good sense to outlaw. I get mine in bulk from a reputable overseas pharm. I have no idea what other people do.

Next time pull your toes up towards the knee and massage your calf with the palm of your opposite hand.

Muscle cramps suck, but a KIP scale level 10 cluster headache is pain on a scale that is extraordinary.

You cannot control your body. I've been on the floor writhing from the pain, certain I'd had a stroke.

I've had only one med professional put the pain scale into good perspective, 1-moderate, 10-you'd probably pass out. I appreciated that because I'd called my standard of pain a 9 1/2 - the worst tooth pain in a life of teeth pains. I felt the next step up was passing out.

Every once in a long while I get a cramp under my chin in my neck that is terrible!!!! But the worst pain I ever had was a tooth where the root went dead/became infected. It happened the night before Thanksgiving and I had to live with it from Wednesday night until Monday.

Must be nice

I have had leg cramps in the past however nothing hurts like breaking a tooth down to the root.
About six months ago I broke a tooth and have never felt pain like this ever in my life.

I have started eating 2 - 3 bananas a week. Calf cramps gone away. I do not remember where I heard it. Works for me.

trigeminal neuralgia is like a cattle prod to the eye

Bob-you have my sympathies. My wife has delt with this for years involving V1,2 and 3 on the left side of her face.

I've had the middle of the night cramps in my toes so bad I was out of the bed in about two seconds. Walking around for a bit will always make it go away. I wonder if it's a blood flow issue?

Nothing like waking up in agony because the calf is cramped up. On the pain scale I’ve had worse. Walking around with a ruptured appendix was no fun. Every bump in the road was a jolt of pain.

I've learned to jump up onto my feet and partial stretch. It goes on forever if I just lay in bed.

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Originally posted by 12thwisconsin:
Bob-you have my sympathies. My wife has delt with this for years involving V1,2 and 3 on the left side of her face.

Words cannot accurately say what she must feel. Its not a pain that others can see or really understand. I had a surgery that had some good results. I wish hope the best for her and you.