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Spasticity Question

oleblue
oleblue
Hello everyone
I believe I know what Spasticity is it is where your muscles try to pull in different directions. (Let me know if I get something wrong) and that is what causes the pain. Well yesterday I over did it pretty bad and I know better so it's my fault. I was starting to feel a little stiff at the end of the
day, and when I woke up this morning all my joints especially my arms
and legs hurt so bad and when I woke up I was screaming and crying
like a little kid, I know I woke up everyone in the house, it felt like my
arms and legs were locked in position and when I tried to bend anything it felt like I was ripping my muscles in half and when I was able to stop screaming I got up and tried to walk I looked like the Tin Man. The worse part was I was upstairs add had to go to the bathroom so there was no laying back down, it was a horrible experience. I finally was able to lay down for a few more hours and have been stiff all day. The other big
thing is it is extremely painful to the touch and mmy legs are the worse and my low back is also feeling numb, So is this Spasticity and will it
pass without doing anything, My wife has to work in the Morning and
don't want sleeping in the same bed or floor with her, and the only good thing about this is she finally got to see what I will have to live with, this has happend before but not to this degree. Any thoughts, suggestions on what to do besides, Hey did you learn anything cause the answer is yes
to that.Also I take 80mg oxy's and it is like a pain it can't touch, I also have gabepentin would increasing that help, I take 2700mg/day so I'm
not sure how much you can take
Thanks in avance
lorrieonline
lorrieonline
Sorry for what you're going through. While I haven't had the spacticity to that degree, I have had it enough to make my feel like crying one night and I did take something for it. I don't have much spacticity since I started taking magnesium last July. I take magnesium citrate 2 to 3 times per day. You're supposed to work up to large amounts so it doesn't keep you in the bathroom for a day. I take 400 mg each time I take it. Seems to help a ton of issues. I initially learned about it through reading Dr. Mark Harmon and then checking out a book by Dr. Carolyn Dean. It's a miracle for sure.

Best of luck. I hope your spacticity subsides so you can enjoy a good night's sleep again.

~Lorrie
lchoppel
lchoppel
I experience that same pain when I awake from sleeping. For some reason, the inactivity of my sleep causes the muscles to "rip" when I awake and it is excruitating! I feel your pain as they say, but unfortunately, I haven't found anything that helps. I try stretching real good after the initial shock of moving my legs, but it really doesn't do anything. Sorry I can't offer any advice, but I can send you a big {{{HUG}}}.
lorrieonline
lorrieonline
My hamstring pulls do help keep my muscles more limber.
janiM
janiM
I get spas stuff in my feet and legs esp at night. I take Baclofen 10-30 mg at bedtime which does help. Exercise helps me the most, keeps the muscles limber. If I sit or stand too long in one position, then the spasms are worst. I think you should ask you dr. about any medication dose changes.

Try low key exercises every day to help keep muscles limber, see if that helps for future. Good luck
Jani
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm sorry to hear of this miserable symptom! I have it aswell and it isn't fun! Nothing helps me, my hamstrings are like tight rubberbands that rarely get relief from stretching. Flexiril gave very little help. I have been having some in the upper abdomen and lower rib cage now.
Good luck, I hope you find some relief.
deleted_user
deleted_user
An Epsom salt bath in water as hot as you can stand and soak for only 12 minutes, Dronabinol caps, constant stretching and professional massages..........those are some of the things I do for spasticity, what I call "The Frankenstein Effect" (when I 1st get out of bed in the morn thats how I walk) Oh! & smoking a doob doesn't hurt :-)
docruth
docruth
When this happens, my husband massages everywhere there is pain. I take the magnesium as well. Potassium helps too.
STEVP
STEVP
4 Zanaflex at bedtime and some yoga stretches are all that seems to do much good. Hell is to pay if I stay in bed over 7 hours.

Anymore it seems if I sit too long I get stiff, stay walking I get too tired.
What is the happy medium?
deleted_user
deleted_user
yes spasms are painful i talked to my doctor and was taking backlofen, then zanaflex. now i have a backlfon pump and it helps
oleblue
oleblue
Thanks to all for the replies, I had to go get a T shot today and called to try and get in to see my doc and they said nothing available, so as they brought me back for my shot there sat my doc on the other side of the door on his laptop so I stopped and explained to him what was going on and he said I needed baclofen and told the nurse to call it in when she was done and it was ready when I got there. FreddieRed I have a card and stopped by my caregiver on the way home so I will set at bedtime. Thanks for the magnesium tips I will try that seems to be a lot of support for that, and yes I've been doing epsom salts for a couple of years,that one is giving age away as I remember them as a kid but I've always used for back and hip pain. I have some serious issues with my back and hip so a lot of the strecthing things I;m limited to be able to do.
Thanks again for your input and tips
Dave
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