hold your hands above your head.......deep breaths in your nose out your mouth.....drink plenty of water
Hope you feel better bro. If you want, I know a guy who can punch you in the face so that your side doesnt hurt so bad...heck you'll practically forget about that side muscle altogether Just messing with ya dude. I get cramps in my side/obliques mostly from gym related stuff. Cant guarantee it'll work or not make it worse, but what I usually do is get on the floor like im going to do a push up, and lift my chest while my stomach stays on the floor to stretch the region. Does that make sense....?
I'm always telling my kids that when they say something hurts I wish they would take me up on it just once J/K I have 3 great children!!
Morning guys, well that was the most excruciating 5-6 hours I have ever spent. I even had to call 911 once because the tacacardia was getting bad and I have an extreme panic disorder. My heart rate was at 130 and my blood pressure at 190/110 when the EMT guys measured it. I don't know what it was exactly.....I don't think it was a kidney stone, I have passed those before and my pee was mostly clear nothing unusual. Its was also slightly colored darker this morning but nothing like blood in it. I think what happened is that I started getting a bad gastroentinitis attack (I have had mild ones before) and did a stupid, stupid thing last nite. I felt bloated so what did dummy do ? He has a frosted mug of milk and Ritz crackers with peanut butter as a snack. That led to the extreme discomfort, and in turn caused a side muscle to flex and cramp. And for whatever reason I could not get it to relax, and it became like a vice-grip on my side. Dudes, this was bad ........I mean bad guys. I thought "I would rather be dead" bad. I could not go to sleep until after 5am This morning I woke up and felt sore all over, but back to normal for the most part. Only had a soft-boiled egg over toast for breakfast. I gotta change my diet, that's it.....I have to cut out all the fried foods and make a change in my life. Thanks for replying y'all, hopefully this was just an incident and not the start of a prolonged bout with kidney stones.....god those are painful.
I think it was an inside muscle that cramped when I was "pushing". I could not get it to let go and it was like a vice-grip for hours and hours. Thanks everyone for being mature about this
Hi Mal, much better this morning sir. Hopefully whatever it was has been resolved. Guys this was bad, I mean really bad pain. Like "having a baby" pain from the way I have heard women describe it.
I was getting kind of worried it was something worse when we didn't hear from you. Glad you're feeling better.
Hey Boik, thanks, and yes I was doing the stretching last nite but it just wouldn't let go, adn why I don't know. Maybe it was because I was nervous and couldn't relax, but it just stayed flexed (I could feel it) for hours and hours. I get panic attacks and started getting one when I couldn't get it to relax, and then it took several more hours to get better, and finally around 5am I was able to bear the pain enough to fall asleep. When I woke up around 9:30am the pain was basically all gone, but I was still tired and very sore and was running a slight fever. My heart rate was also elevated but that eventually went down too. I hope I never have a repeat of this, and I am changing my diet today to get rid of all the fats & bad stuff. Sometimes we need a wakeup call to get our heads in the right place and this was mine -- a 5 alarm bell raisin' wakeup call. I used to workout and eat right, but as I got older I just stopped working out, and that was wrong. About 10 years ago I was on a diet of grilled chicken breast 3 times a day, with a protein shake 2 more times, and was in the best shape of my life. I need to at least get back to some daily exercise and stop feeling sorry for myself with this rheumatoid arthritis (the reason I stopped lifting). Thanks everyone
If that ever happens again, try some Mineral Ice to get you through the worst of the cramps. I get that quite frequently, and it helps until things kick loose.