anyone have muscle pain frim nightime sleeping stretching ?

Hi, do you mean cramping when you stretch like a Charlie horse? I get that on my left leg if I stretch in the middle of the night. I’ve had fusions, L4-S1, pain was always worse on left. I get cramps now in left foot too, from stretching exercises. I’m working on PT for my neck pain. Trying to keep from having surgery on that!

Hi, no not cramping. This is just the regular stretching we do after a long road trip or waking up in the morning. One doctor thinks its just from tight muscles. it started out of nowhere but it was so bad at one point it caused a tear in one of the tendons of my foot.

I'm not quite sure I understand. The only thing that would tear a muscle, tendon, is involuntary and severe cramping. Stretching is a voluntary action almost always. It is possible to stretch too far and strain and in rare cases tear a muscle or tendon/ligament. You refer to stretching in your sleeping that's what I'm trying to understand.

I'm in very good shape for a 70 y/o, and I will get very bad hamstring cramps when I'm in bed. But those are involuntary.

All the best.

I get horrible Charlie horses in my calves at night, sometimes, particularly when I'm doing LOTS of walking during the day and not stretching. I know one of the main causes of night cramps is dehydration. Make sure you stay hydrated! I"m terrible at remembering this, and many of us over 60 are not getting enough water.

Thanks, is not a charlie horse at all. Its called pandiculation the act of involuntarily stretching and yawning when waking up or being sedentary for a long time except mine went overboard. i stay well hydrated

I used to have a lot of leg and foot cramps. Taking calcium, vit D and magnesium have seemed to help.

Thanks but its not cramps.

@rgg did you ever figure out what was causing the nighttime pandiculations? What helped resolve it for you?

@lucy73 Your charlie horses may be caused by phosphoric acid. It is in Coca Cola, Pepsi, diet Coke. ALL dark sodas and bottled teas. Not found in clear sodas like Sprite and 7-Up. Stop drinking dark sodas and teas and they should go away. My mother had horrible charlie horses. We stopped her Coca Cola and they went away. Some foods have added phosphorus taking these out of your diet too should have you charlie horses free.

@rgg I have been experiencing these stretches, what I had been referring to as forceful involuntary stretches from my waist down to my feet mostly at night when I lay down & occasionally after standing up from being seated. These involuntary stretches started sometime after I was injured in an auto accident. I had ORIF to repair a shattered hip & pelvis 5 years ago. During the accident my legs hit the dash just below my knees. Same leg as the hip damage has compression injuries below the knee. During a recent episode of one of these involuntary forceful stretches (pandiculation) my knee experienced some popping as it usually has done, only this time i believe it stretched too far backwards & possibly tore a likely already damaged or weakened tendon or ligaments in the back of my knee area. I had painful throbbing for a full week with any weight on the leg & when laying down i am still experiencing instability in the knee in the last month. These are definitely not cramps. After looking this up I now know is pandiculation.