Pain, Captain

[elfs]

It's gotta be nutritional. This seems to happen once in a while; my body just starts to hurt. First, there was the spasm as my right calf locked up, making it damn near impossible to walk. Then, the pain travelled up to my back, making it very hard to turn my head to the right (which makes it hard to look over my shoulder while driving to check the blind spot). Now, my wrists and elbows have begun to hurt.

What am I missing? Potassium, calcium, zinc? I'm doing my stretches and remembering my workout, and I'm taking in plenty of the above. Omaha suspects it might be caffeine toxicity, but I've actually cut back on my caffeine intake by quite a bit recently. It might be potassium shortage, since half my caffeine intake is one 12oz can of pop per day, but reading through the literature I can only find one case where potassium shortage was the cause of muscle fatigue and spasms, and the woman in question was drinking eight liters (!) of sodapop a day.

Comments

Re: A few thoughts and guesses

[jenkitty.livejournal.com]

In that case, definitely try increasing your water intake. It does help flush things out. Are we talking about your basic fatigue toxins here, like lactic acid?