For cramping, I would think a hotpad or warm towel would be a more effective way of delivering heat to the muscles that actually do the cramping.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
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DebetEsse - Jan 31, 2015 8:01:31 am PST #16550 of 30002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Laura - Jan 31, 2015 8:22:08 am PST #16551 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Oh I agree, but I didn't have those kinds of horrible cramps so I don't know what I would have tried in that case.
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2015 9:11:41 am PST #16552 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Heated seats are about the best thing I've found for my cramps.
I wouldn't have thought to put the heat on my BACK... but something about the position I guess does a world of good.
Second best are those low-heat pads you can wear under your clothes for eight hours at a stretch. Even the hand warmers (which are way cheaper) shoved in the front pockets of my jeans help nicely. Hmm... maybe I should shove them in the back pockets too...
Laura - Jan 31, 2015 9:36:14 am PST #16553 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
But would you try steam? I have no idea the actual logistics of this. It does seem like heating pads or even a nice hot tub would warm the innards well enough.
WindSparrow - Jan 31, 2015 9:48:28 am PST #16554 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Yeah, I'm thinking, I'd rather try a nice hot bath with various configurations of herbal remedies - tea taken internally or in the bath water, than risk steam burns,
ION, Spooooon!
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2015 10:17:03 am PST #16555 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Steam?
Shoot, if I'm going to snap and go completely bugfuck insane I'm going to grab a knife and finally start stabbing myself in the abdomen - I'm not waiting around for something to boil.
beekaytee - Jan 31, 2015 10:18:30 am PST #16556 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
eta: Um. Not to put too fine a point in it, my 'feeling the same' here was in response to Windsparrow's comment.
I feel the same. I love a good hot water bottle and, frankly, am resisting reading anything about this steaming process. Don' wanna know.
My fancy schmancy teas (of which, I hope ita would approve...lo, how I wish I could ask her about temperatures...) are keeping me pretty relaxed and invigorated.
askye - Jan 31, 2015 11:17:25 am PST #16557 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I have comments but I'm mostly um Nope nopenope to steam.
I'm home early from work. I cut my finger open on a cardboard box, which wasn't fun. And made it for awhile until I started getting hot (no one else was) and started having trouble sentencing.
Which is how I described it to my supervisor. "Um, so I need to go. I'm not...you know.. I'm hot and I had trouble with the ...thing with the customer (transaction) because ....I'm having trouble sentencing. Talking. long sentences."
Which at that point he let me go. I left my boots at work (wore my work shoes), dropped my keys at work. Then at home walked into the drainage ditch trying to get to the house. (it's full of snow I thought it was solid ground).
I'm calling the doctor on Monday. This spacey ness is stupid.
sj - Jan 31, 2015 11:22:19 am PST #16558 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Steam? t shudder
Cass - Jan 31, 2015 1:46:38 pm PST #16559 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Definitely doctor time again, askye.
Second best are those low-heat pads you can wear under your clothes for eight hours at a stretch.
I prefer the ones that stick to skin instead of clothes. They tend to stay better in the spots I need. And, amazingly, the adhesive doesn't irritate my skin.