Blueball FAQ for January 2008: Do people with EMS still experience muscle spasms?
The results of a recent Survey I have conducted of 40 persons with EMS show that only one person of the forty answered an outright “No” to this question, and another said, “Very rarely.” So 95% of the 40 still get EMS spasms in their muscles as we enter the 19th year since the Epidemic. Some respondents were pre-epidemic cases, so for them it’s been more than 18+ years of living with EMS. If you add in the one person who rarely gets spasms, then more than 95% of respondents to this survey get muscle spasms. Some people get them more vigorously or severely than others, and some people get them more often than others. Sites of spasms and intensity, etc., differ from person to person and sometimes in the same person. Various factors seem to bring on spasms including tired muscles, general fatigue, cold weather, changing temperatures (changing weather), standing on hard surfaces, not enough usage of muscles, being low in magnesium, and so on.
