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[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question time again! Do you have any advice for dealing with muscle cramps/muscle knots* in muscles that don't have bones right behind them? I mean, if you have any advice for dealing with muscle knots or cramps in general, I'll happily take that advice too, but I'm specifically looking for advice about the ones you can't really massage More details about my specific weird health situation behind the read more, but it's not necessary to read to answer the question *I'm kind of unsure of the difference between the two things?

I am like three different electrolyte disorders in a trenchcoat and that's mostly under control these days, but sometimes I have a perfect storm of "too much physical activity" and "various endocrine issues managed to sync up with each other" and "oops I'm allergic to Thin Mints" and end up pretty badly dehydrated**, which means a few days down the line I get pretty vicious muscle cramps and end up with a series of knots in my muscles that stretch from my jaw to mid-calf on one side. Then a few days later as they start to relax the other side tenses up, and it usually goes back and forth that way, less severe each cycle, like two or three times before it's fixed. This time, though, I ended up with a knot (cramp? again, not sure) in the muscle just under my rib cage bad enough to be visible from a distance, and I can't massage that one away. Like, the bad cramps in my legs I can massage and maybe it'll bruise but that's it, but the ones with no bones behind them or right on my spine I have to be more careful about and I am running out of ideas. **I don't know what the technical term is, but I call it salt-dehydrated instead of water-dehydrated. Like, I have to drink water to improve, but water alone won't fix the issue. I have to have ridiculous amounts of salt (and other electrolytes but mostly salt)