Muscle Spasms?!?!? Really?!?

So I wake up at 4 am this morning, CRYING, like big time. I go to move my right arm, and I scream!!!

WHAT THE HELL!!! Omg so I spend the next hour tryna stretch and move my arm while tears are rolling down my face. Im moving, stretching, snapping, rolling, massaging, EVERYTHING I can think of that might give an OUNCE of relief to this SHOCK of pain that is my upper arm (bicep/tricep area).

The pain subsided a bit, enough for me to urge myself back to sleep, just to wake up and have a killer cramp in my arm. Well, as alot of you know, sometimes the pain doenst make the world stop so I get up and get the kids organized for school, get me organized (ish) for work, and head out to drop them off at day care and head into work. If you remember, Im an esthetician, so Im dreading work at this point, but I know that my first client came from outta town for me to do her nails, so I must push forward. I get to work, start with my client, and come out to talk to my boss about rescheduling my other clients. Shes not impressed, cuz I am fully booked ALL DAY. But Im in so much pain now Im sick to my stomach. PERFECT!! Nothing like doing nails and vomitting!! YAY ME. Anyway. So she reschedules, and Im done my client, Im outta there!!! I head to emerg, YET AGAIN, (Ive been up there 6 times in the last 3 months....all for lil girl...shes fine tho :)) well thank god its one of the "normal" doctors in our area.

So, he comes in, yanks my arm around, says I have muscle spasms, gives me physio therapy, and some anti-inflammatory, (Naproxen 375 mg) He says he doenst know what it could be from, then I pipe up and say, "I have FB, could it be something related to that?" He says "well ya of course, and you could keep getting them if it happens to be one of the things you just 'GET'"....WOOPPIE I just cant WAIT to keep getting pain like this.

I actually compare it to labor pains...and seriously, I had my son natural with no drugs, and it was BAD...and my arm hurts just about as bad!!!

So I guess this leads me to ask, does anyone else have this symptom, and PLEASE tell me you have a remedy?!?! Or even something that makes it bearable?!?!?!

Im sooooo lost!!!!

Hope everyone is well today!!xo

I've had some pretty bad muscle spasms in the past.  I would get them in my legs and feet...to the point my feet and toes were curling.  It REALLY hurts.  But once I started taking more calcium and getting enough potassium, this has stopped.  I was surprised about the calcium but it does help with muscle cramping!  I was taking the extra calcium for osteoporosis so this was a nice surprise.

 

Potatoes and bananas are high in potassium.  So are other foods but I can't think of them right off hand.  I now take a muscle relaxer and that has helped me a lot, too. 

 

Sherrine

The severity of the pain you describe (waking up crying) makes me wonder if it could be a disc problem...I'm just thinking about when I turned over in bed and got slammed with some of the worst pain I've ever had....I yelled....never mind what I yelled!   In my case, it was a disc rupturing, or maybe this was when the disc hit the sciatic nerve....anyway, what I'm wondering is if arm pain could be caused by a disc problem higher up, in the thoracic or cervical spine.  

Debbie

This is my first post. I read the posts about Muscle spasms and I want to share what happened to me this last couple of days. I have RA and fibromyalgia. The last 4 days I have been in so much pain. I don't know where it came from. But let me tell you what I have be doing. I packed our camping van with all our gear, including our blow up heavy duty Kayaks. We take of for Bishop Ca. about a 5 1/2 hour drive up the 395. We arrive on a Sunday. Im feeling tired, but expect that due to the drive. Monday wake up, still a bit tired and take a nap. wake up, paint a watercolor painting, have dinner, play some cards. in bed by 10:30. Tuesday, my back is hurting, I thought it was just because its a bed I am not use to sleeping in. Later Tuesday a friend gently rubs my back and it feels so much better.
The rest of the day I feeling okay. Go to bed Wednesday morning back stiff, but not to bad. later around 12 noon I became very tired and my back was hurting again but the pain came in shots, like out of nowhere. I could feel it get tight. I had dinner took a hot shower, and turned in early. Here is where everything went down hill. I woke up a 3 a.m. to use the restroom. I tried to get up, and I got the most painful shot of pain since child birth in my back, and across my chest. I could not raise my head, and when I did the spams came across my chest and my body slammed down onto the bed as if some one stuck a knife in my chest. I finally, by all that was in me stood up and made it to our restroom in our camper van. It was all I could do to walk. I could lift my left leg okay with out pain, but the right leg I could not lift. So I dragged my foot. I made it back to the bed. I lay there in so much pain. I had spasms all morning. I have never had any back issues ever. My friends were concerns that I might have blown a disk. What? that's crazy I did not do anything to cause that. I had not even Kayaked due to the windy weather. All I did since arrival to the campground was unload my stuff, walk around and meet my camping friends, have a few beers and play cards, a game of Mexican Train that's it. Thursday morning after that horrible night, My friends packed us up and we went to Bishop Hospital. They took an x-ray of my back.My back looked good! the doctor said, She gave me Morafhine and Robaxon via IV, and a prescription for Oxycodone for pain that was to come later, The doctor said I was having Muscle spasms. What is causing them I asked........ Well she didn't know, but these drugs I gave you will help you on that long ride home.
I have had Fibromyalgia for 10 years this is the first time I have ever had such breath taking pain. So I now understand, and have a different view of pain. So this being my first post and having such a long one at that, does any one experience muscle spasms? I am home, and the spasms have lessen. I still have pain in my lower back and across my chest into my armpit. All I can do is rest and look forward to your posts too.

I get muscle spasms in my lower back that pull my spine to the side. I get muscle spasms in my legs also.

The pain you describe does sound more like a spinal problem. I know the only pain I can compare to child birth is the pain from my spine. My fibro pain isn't even in the realm of my spinal pain. (No I am not saying Fibro doesn't hurt a LOT, because it does)

I woke up once with horrible pain in my left shoulder, shooting down to my elbow. After a few weeks I started losing the feeling in my thumb and first two fingers. Went to my doctor and he said 'lift up your arm' so I did. He looked at me and said 'better?'. I said 'yeah. He said, 'it's not your arm it's your neck'.

Sadly, all you can do at this point is wait and see.

*edited cuz i can't tell my right from my left*