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Painful muscle spasms
Painful muscle spasms is a symptom that can be caused by dehydration or mild electrolyte abnormalities, such as low potassium or calcium.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
14 year experience in family medicine
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A 45-year old asked:
What causes painful muscle spasms?
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A 45-year old asked:
What causes a painful muscle spasm in the calf muscle?
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A 44-year old asked:
Painful muscle spasms in the calf sometimes. Any prevention?
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A 28-year old male asked:
I wonder how long painful muscle spasms/issues in my whole back last which are caused by a bulging disc? it's been 1 month since I got injured.
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A 43-year old asked:
What causes painful muscle spasm in back of head?
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What causes painful muscle spasm in back of head?
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A 45-year old asked:
Why do i get these painful muscle spasms in my foot?
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A 51-year old asked:
i get a heavy feeling in my solar plexus frequeny on drive home from work and painful muscle spasms when eating in my chest, whats going on?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Having painful muscle spasm and twitching in left arm at and below the elbow down into the wrist.
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A 27-year old female asked:
Very painful muscle spasm on my left hand & the pain goes down to my left leg. For a few seconds my arm and leg lock up and it's quite painful. ?
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A 33-year old female asked:
I have been having painful mid back muscle spasms.I think?It just came on out of the blue two days ago.I'm not really active so what is this?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I broke my fibula 3 weeks ago still painful and the muscle around it feels like it's spasming and tightening should I be worried I go to ortho tom.
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A 43-year old male asked:
Why does it feel like my scalp muscles are spasming?
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A 45-year old asked:
If spasticity is reduced by botox then what are the chances of improvement in muscle coordination?
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A 33-year old asked:
The muscles in my lower back have been spasming for a couple hours now without pain. What could be the cause?
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A 35-year old female asked:
For 4 days i have frequent urination and when i go theres not much there it was a little pink and now its bloody and feels like muscles are spasming
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A 23-year old female asked:
The last few weeks I have been slowly increasing the amount of kegels I practice. Recently my sphincter muscle has been spasming. Why?
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A 35-year old asked:
Will tens reduce the muscle spasticity in legs?
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A 33-year old male asked:
When I wake up from a short nap (2-5 min.), it feels like my heart is pounding. But my heart rate is norm. Feels like a spasming muscle though. Why?
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A member asked:
Is there one medicine for spasticity and muscle spasms? Associated with neuropathy. Which is recommended??
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A 18-year old male asked:
I see my (extraocular?) muscle spasming very clearly through my skin under my left eye if I tense my facial muscles. Is this normal?My eye is also red
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A 25-year old male asked:
Can loss of height be due to loss of energy resiliency in the disc spaces. or loss of water, high blood sugar, loss muscle spasticity after psych meds?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Can a blood vessel become entrapped btw spasming flexor hallucis longus and other muscles of the deep posterior compartment?
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A 32-year old female asked:
What do I do for estreme leg, feet and hand muscle cramps? Kept me up all night--still spasaming. Tried diazapam that I have for occasional cramping and drank some tonic water for the quinine and drank gator ade for the electrolights.
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A 50-year old male asked:
Treatment for painful biceps and shoulder muscles?
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A 31-year old male asked:
what can i do 4 extremely painful thigh muscles after 2 days of very strenuas exercise. i can barely go up my stairs or sit/squat?
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A 44-year old female asked:
What is the best way to get rid of muscle knots that just roll when rubbed very painful been drinking lots of h2o muscles cramp easy?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Swollen tender painful neck? My right neck muscles are sore and somewhat puffy... Any reason or concerns on why? I don't recall doing anything to it
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A member asked:
I have a lump in my quad muscle and it is painful I have had it since I had my son in 2006 I had really bad sciatica can you tell me what it might be?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Why the fibromyalgia is concentrated in the muscles of my whole back with the feeling of painful muscles if u touch them with fingers.Sometimes hot se?
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