spasming muscle, WTF??

Edward · 05-Dec-05, 02:51 AM

Last night my muscle in my arm (the one that runs acroos the elbow) juststarted to spasm, i went to sleep thinking it will be fine in the morning, however i woke up and it's still doing it, its not painfull or anything. I'm going to start my new fitness prgramme today will it be safe for me to start it??

Cheers
Ed

P.S sorry if this is in the wrong area

**.V.** · 05-Dec-05, 09:47 AM

Couldn't say. It depends on the cause of your muscle spasms. Often, just stretching the spasm out will be enough to get you ready to work out. Also a proper warmup with light weights, slightly heavier weights, then heavier weights before getting into the heavy working sets may help.

This works for me - I have muscle spasms unrelated to training. Mine are neurogenic - messed up CNS. If the stretching and warmups don't help, I just have to skip the workout. When they get bad enough, I go on baclofen for a while - that's a mild centrally acting muscle relaxer which is effective for spactisity for folks with CNS conditions. I'm supposed to take it every day and the doc gets mad when I don't, but I actually just end up taking it for a week or two maybe 3 times a year.

If the spasms don't resolve - see a doc and find the cause of them.

tim_mcf · 05-Dec-05, 02:50 PM

Is it just a muscle fiber that is twitching and won't stop, or is it a SPASM? (Like, "look out, my arm is spasming and I might accidently whack you.") If it's the first it's just annoying and will eventually go away. I get these sometimes and it drives me crazy, but it does eventually quit. Go work out and don't worry about it. Maybe take a multivitamin. If it's the second, go see a doctor (and try not to whack him).

Edward · 06-Dec-05, 01:09 PM

lol

yeah it's stopped now, the only thing that got me intrigued was that it continued over night and throughout the next day, but all is good now!

Ed

tim_mcf · 06-Dec-05, 01:47 PM

That drives me crazy. Just be glad it wasn't your eyelid.

**Firehawk** · 06-Dec-05, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by tim_mcf

That drives me crazy. Just be glad it wasn't your eyelid.

Yeah my eyelid starts twitching sometimes. It drives me nuts. does it too at the worst times like when im sitting in a conference room during a meeting with a bunch of other colleagues in there.