For several months I have been struggling with progressively severe cramping of the muscles of the forearm (both arms/hands) and the stabilizing muscles of the lower legs. It feels different than normal cramping. It includes a kind of baseline stiffness and a feeling of dysfunction and fragility that I have never experienced before, so for me it has been a bit scary to think that I could lose the function of both of my hands before the age of 60.
This has led to daily periods where the cramping was so severe that I could not open or use my hands, or walk safely. The associated pain was also increasingly severe.
I initially tried brief (1-2 hours) of ICES-PEMF using my M1, secured to my forearms. This seemed to help a bit, but not entirely. Last week I decided to get much more serious with it, so I began using a C5 with a pad made of 2x2 coil arrays:
For the past week, I used this for much longer periods of time every day, about 6 to 8 hours, basically because I slept with it directly over or under the areas of cramping in my arms or legs. The settings I have been using are Alpha Wave with intensity = 11, or alternatively Omni-8 with intensity = 11.
I make sure the pad covers as much of the affected area as possible, and I check and adjust the pad location occasionally while awake to make sure it has not shifted too much. I then move it between the most cramped areas every few hours (I am a light sleeper).
This strategy has been immensely helpful and seems to have nearly eliminated the cramping and feeling of stiffness and fragility. I feel like I am getting progressively better, not progressively worse over time. So, I will continue to employ this strategy for the next few weeks in the hopes of effecting a permanent fix.
I think the key points are:
(1) that I did not wait too long to begin this strategy, and
(2) I had real success when I began using it all night, every night.