Pain

[Sophie_Pledge]

hi all so I’m a week into my keto diet this may sound strange but I’m currently experiencing pain in both my upper arms feels like pulled muscle (I haven’t been lifting anything)
has anyone experienced this before?

[Robert_Johnson]

First be sure you are getting enough salt. The recommended allowance is way too low, especially on a Keto diet. When insulin levels are low, the kidneys allow salt to filter out. So you would need to increase salt intake to compensate.

I have been having cramps in places I’ve never cramped before. Like the bottom of my feet. Upping both my salt and potassium levels seemed to fix that.

I have experienced something else though. Old pains returning. Back in 1990 I was crushed between an aircraft power unit, we called a -60. It’s a jet engine on wheels. We would tow it around the flight line from aircraft to aircraft to apply electrical power. While hooking one up to our pickup truck, on a slight downward incline, the beast started to go a little faster than we were walking it. I was at the front, steering it. The tow bar to it, attached to the front axel for turning, think little red wagon, it has a dead mans break. So if you release it, it is spring loaded to the up position, forcing the breaks to come on. So as the -60 picked up speed, I didn’t want it to slam into the truck, so I released the tow bar, and it went faster! I tried to dive out of the way, it caught my leg, and my upper torso was crushed between the tailgate of the truck and the -60. It was just short of breaking my ribs. Knocked the air out of me. I nearly passed out because I couldn’t breath for about 3 minutes. Not a gasp. Bruised my ribs up good. Seperating tissue from the ribs, forcing air out of my lungs into surrounding tissue (pneumothorax it’s called, I think). I was in the ER for almost two days. Spent another week recovering before I could return to work.

It took about 10 years for the repeated flare ups of pain to subside. I’m talking kidney stone type pain. Felt like I was being crushed all over again, and it happened quite regularly. At least once a week. Or, if I made a sudden move, like trying not to drop something, and catch it. For the longest time everyone thought I was having heart attacks.

Now on Keto, after losing nearly 50 pounds now in the past 5 months, my pains are starting up again. If I cough or sneeze, it’s extremly painful. Like getting hit in the chest with a high speed basket ball, yes, I’m familiar with that🙄.

It seems to be subsiding now though. I’m beginning to correlate it with electrolytes. When I picked up my routine of added salt and potassium, the pains are less and less. But not gone.

Here, this is a -60 (dash sixty)

[Sophie_Pledge]

that could be it I haven’t been consuming more sodium … im going to do that right away this pain in my arms is unbelievable

oh my goodness that sounds like a horrific accident… thank goodness you were ok! how strange these pains are reappearing now though…

amazing weight loss congrats!!!

had my first weigh in today and I lost 12lb …
everything’s going well except these pains

[Robert_Johnson]

It’s probably an electrolyte issue then. When was last time you had lab work done. I don’t know how much it costs, but it should be worth it once in a while to be proactive anyway. I get mine free, just a little perk of living through my 20 yrs in the military.

I guess any accident you walk away from isn’t so bad. I have been in a long list of them too. None of them my fault, just wrong place at the wrong time. Lived through them all. I’m starting to think I should write a book. I’ve had more close calls than I can count without taking my shoes off.