Thursday, October 7, 2010

what is that numbness in your leg after you wake up from your sleep and how do you treat it and why this is such a long title and why i am stating how long this title is

        Have you ever had that numbness when you wake up from your sleep and you feel a sharp pain in your leg when you use or move it? It's not like it occurs everyday for me, but it does happen. What I'm talking about is a simple cramp. There is a controversy over what causes these nighttime cramps, but people say it's potassium deficiency or the blood supply to the leg is cut off. Usually what I do is just give it a kick and get it over with. However, it does sting when I do that. On the bright side, it's a quick solution.
        Another solution is to walk it off which I do not like to do because it is dark. It also wakes you up a little because you are moving around. Another matter is that walking around is painful for the cramp, too. It's as if you were to export goods by walking. I don't even know if you could walk on a painful leg.
        You could hit your leg to wake it up. I don't know if that works. I have never tried it before. Maybe the pain will counteract the cramp. You could stretch, but it forces you to sit up and also wakes you up a bit. Most people would be too drowsy to sit up anyways.
        You could ignore the numbness and not move. However, you would have to deal with it the next morning and there is no guarantee that the pain will be gone by then.
        The title is very long because I want to be very clear what I will talk about in the post. If I just ask what the pain in the leg is, I would just say cramp and that would be the end of it. If I just mention how we treat it, the audience would not know what i am talking about. It's kind of a long sentence clause and I mentioned how long it is so I could have something to talk about. A cramp is a very simple topic and there is not much to talk about.

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