I hope nobody has ever experienced the following : I get 18 hour spasms near my hip every alternate day (Yin / Yang). It’s not too unbearable. On top of that my Big toe spasms every 3 days (2 days off, 1 day spasm). Today is the 4th time it happens. The trouble is my ankle and other parts of my leg get stiff, and I am barely able to walk. I need to meditate now,
I know we need the bad times to appreciate the good times,
I pray God has different plans for me in the future,
I used to have these spasms about the body, not the duration of eighteen hours though. You call this the yin/yang effect, I have recently adopted the term turbulence to describe my off periods. I would put the spasms down to the brain misfiring or trying to get online smaller muscles in the body. I don’t know if this, actually, is the case, but I liked to think so.
I use yin/yang to signify one day free, the other spasms in glute (near hip)
This was before another independent cycle started with my big toe
How long were your spasms ? How long did the entire spasm period last? Any strategies to getting rid of this ?
I certainly subscribe to your theory of recruiting smaller muscles.
That’s a constructive thought, possibly correct, and one that may see me through this nightmare.
The spasms I experienced were on and off throughout the day, I think the longest was one spasming just above my knee in my thigh, that went on for about six hours, maybe longer, perhaps even the whole evening. That was the one I panicked about, thinking it was a vein until my GP told me that there were no major veins in that spot. I just endured them, and they were incredibly obstructing and uncomfortable not in a painful way but in a disquieting fashion. I can’t recall anything that soothed apart from as much distraction as I could muster. For a time, it was a primary cause for me being unable to sleep. This all happened last year, so it was a later stroke event in the timeline of my condition.
Sounds like no fun at all, Rups. But /i am glad you overcame them. My spasms (the term spasm was applied by a senior stroke physio) I think should have another name / new category. The slow cycle of my spasms I attribute to the absence of nerve connections. I’m barely able to get to the loo today, but I can if I walk at a snail’s pace.
One set of spasms that I overcame lasted 1 year and 1 month (only on Yin days)… but I hope these foot spasms are resolved sooner, since my nerves are far more developed at this stage.
The medical profession barely knows what a spasm is, so I am, without doubt, on my own with this. If I can get my story out, I guess that’s cathartic, at least.
I can’t imagine anyone would want to read about spasms… oh well!!
Safe to say, I have no recent spasms, but have now paraesthesia which flares up while I am in bed or sitting in a chair. Always plagued by something, it surely must be some kind of cosmic wind up because it’s getting ridiculous.
And do you get paraesthesia in your foot or hand ? and what does the ‘good’ limb feel like ? could it be slow circulation ? what do you think it is ?
Sorry so many questions, but I am also plagued by paraesthesia, though it’s much milder than it used to be. I’ve made progress with my hip, but not my foot. Here’s what I wrote about my spasms in my book
"Once I engaged my CORE muscles using X-frame, I encouraged awareness and sensitivity to return to my glute. My foot had also been subject to strain and abuse due to a lack of feedback, and therefore a lack of lightness and refinement in movement. These long-term spasms were basically the result of a lack of finesse coupled with insufficient innervation, and therefore a lack of higher brain functions "
I seem to get it in the back of my neck if lying down, and my feet when sitting. As this is a fairly recent addition to my condition, I have only reached the point of thinking it may be nerve related, but in what sense, I really don’t know at this point.
The only thing I can think of is poor circulation, and therefore perhaps the back of your neck gets cold ? Thyme is an excellent oil for increasing blood flow. It’s just a wild guess on my part.
I would put the spasms down to the brain misfiring or trying to get online smaller muscles in the body. I don’t know if this, actually, is the case, but I liked to think so.