I woke up this morning (hurray, not dead yet) with a horrible feeling in my crotch area.
I know where the abductors are but I’d only been asleep.
How the heck have I pulled a muscle in my sleep?
Had a very hot shower which eased it a little, then a cold one so that i wouldn’t crash onto the floor.
oh well another of the joys of ms!
Ladies only
Pelvic floor muscle. How can I find it again? I have SPMS, almost wheelchair bound. Can transfer just…but on doing this have a tendency to leek from the neder region!
Any helpful advice/solutions please ladies.
i was lucky enough to belong to a group of neuro bods (Bolton Neuro Voices).
Hydrotherapy and gym sessions.
one of the instructors went off piste and gave us lots of pelvic floor exercises.
we had to imagine all 4 corners of the pelvic floor (never thought muscles had corners).
then we had to bring the four corners together, it can be done but i went cross eyed!
couldn’t do it now though!
most of us leak, that’s what Tena Lady is for!
pelvic floor muscle is the same for men and women - exercised by ‘pulling up’ the area ‘down below’ between the vagina and anus in the case of women. Pull up and hold for 10 ten times then 50 pull ups for a second. Best of luck! I’ve done that every night for the last five years and it’s amazing the control it’s given me despite bladder spasms.
Carole I have this same thing as you speak of. Its the adductor muscle that goes from groin to knee. Mine is painful and nothing helps it. Physio said I have a hamstring tear and gave me exercises which do help. Thing is how I done it in my sleep. Think the humid weather doesn’t help either with night time spasms.
Thanks jimmyk1
I just couldn’t work out how I’d done damage whilst asleep, just assumed it was my strangeness!
yes, it was humid and sweaty that night.
Carole I have that pulled muscle feeling for a few months. It went away and woke up one morning and it was back again. No idea how it happened in my sleep but warm humid weather seems to be the reason for me. Must be spasms at night. Baclofen eases it but not enough.