I woke up late Saturday night from some intense soreness in my lower legs. When I got out of bed yesterday morning, I almost fell because my muscles hurt so badly. Crazy. Walking up and down the stairs is incredibly painful — it feels like someone shortened my calf muscles overnight. What the hell, you guys? Friday night when we were out, I wore boots with a high stacked heel. I’ve worn these boots before, although not much. Is this strain just from the high heel? I was hardly even on my feet all night!
I walked three miles yesterday in hopes of stretching and working the muscles. I’m still in a ton of pain. As I sit at my desk, I’m stretching out my legs and flexing my feet every 30 minutes or so, trying to stretch the calves and hamstrings. Can anyone recommend anything else? Should I be walking or jogging — am I making it worse or better? When the hell will this pain go away? I’m hobbling around the house like a wizened old little Italian lady. HELP ME.
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I can never get heat vs. cold treatment straight, but this talks more about icing (not the edible kind, too bad).
http://www.ehow.com/how_447299.....scles.html
Maybe I’ll just slather my legs in frosting. That would make me feel better.
I can’t ice them while I’m sitting here working, really. Maybe later tonight. I’m seriously in shock over just how painful this is! Going up and down the stairs is torture!
The Internets can cure you:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles.....-pain.html and http://sportsmedicine.about.co.....a/rice.htm
I think heat, elevate, rest and painkillers are for you. You probably have some sort of tear or tightness from a combo of changing heel heights and not enough cool down stretching post work-out. Of course, I AM NOT A DOCTOR.
I think the “I” in RICE (rest, ice, compress, elevate) is for when you have the injury.
The good thing is the pain is equal on both sides. If it was just one leg, I’d be freaking out, wondering if I have deep vein thrombosis. This is why the internet is BAD for me.
Well, I think I am going to skip the workout today. Which fills me with guilt. Which is ridiculous.
I am pretty bad about warming up when I exercise. I remember to gently stretch when I warm down, but almost always forget when I warm up. I don’t think I’ll forget again.
Well, maybe you can do upper-body? Or just focus on gentle stretching? Just respect your range of motion.
Upper body — good idea. Then I’ll feel like I at least MOVED today, heh.
And then I can retire to the couch for the next few hours, after which I will the hobble up the stairs and into bed. Sigh.
Take some Advil or ibuprofen. It should ease the muscle.
Advil’s doing nothing, waaaaah. I’m going to do ice later — I don’t want heat to make the muscle swell and get tighter. I’m sure it will ease up over the next few days.
Make your man massage some Ben Gay into your legs when he gets home.
He’s at home today — work at home day. Happily, I’m feeling much better after icing them last night.
So do you think it was the boots?
Yep, probably those in combo with that day’s workout. Pathetic!
That sucks, but at least now you’ll know to stay away from that dasterdly deadly dou.
Yeah, I won’t be wearing those again unless I know I’ll be walking less than a block.
I’m just going to figure they are bad shoes — I’ve worn higher heels without this issue.