As the title says. I go for a 20 minute walk and when I stop moving, I'm not feeling tired or even agitated at all, yet my legs feel like they're pulsating in different areas, always near the skin. It's not synchronised with my heartbeat. It stops after a few minutes.
Chat GPT says these are just muscle twitches caused by dehydration or lack of electrolytes. I'm not convinced. Why does it feel almost on the skin and not deeper in the muscles? Why do I feel it after a 20 minute walk that doesn't make me sweat but I don't feel it after a 40 minute leg focused workout???? Wouldn't that be more strenuous on the legs?? Does this thing even have a name?
Thanks
Don't ask medical questions of chat gpt. You may as well shake a magic 8 ball. Your legs are probably fine. Bodies just do weird stuff sometimes
I know my legs are fine. All I want to know is a name for this sensation and what causes it. Yes, I want to know about the weird stuff the body does, why is it wrong to ask chatGPT or google?
LLMs are stochastic parrots. They just repeat the phrases most often used together in their training data in association with the words on your prompt. It's like seeking medical advice from the predictive text on your phone keyboard.
Why is this question considered medical advice? Also, considering most common facts are parroted correctly out of LLMs, why is it wrong to search for answers there first?
OK fair, I guess if your not planning to act on it anyway then the stakes are pretty low. I don't agree that llms reliably get basic information correct. "Glue is not pizza sauce" seems like a common fact to me but Googles llm disagrees for example.
"Glue is not pizza sauce" seems like a common fact to me but Googles llm disagrees for example.
That wasn’t something an LLM came up with, though. That was done by a system that uses an LLM. My guess is the system retrieves a small set of results and then just uses the LLM to phrase a response to the user’s query by referencing the links in question.
It’d be like saying to someone “rephrase the relevant parts of this document to answer the user’s question” but the only relevant part is a joke. There’s not much else you can do there.
You're not supposed to use your legs for walking. That's wrong.
it's perfectly normal for muscles to twitch after an exercise, and when you get a muscle twitch like that it usually feels like it's near the skin. your muscles are having trouble recovering and it's either because they've been overworked, or you're dehydrated, or you've been taking stimulants, or you've got low magnesium.
Okay, so you're saying even though I feel it on my skin and not my muscles is still on my muscles. Fair enough. But then why does it happen only with mild activities like walking but not with something more intense?
I never said my skin moved either my dude. It's a sensation, not a movement
Okay, so you're saying even though I feel it on my skin and not my muscles is still on my muscles.
you straight up said you thought it wasn't your muscles moving.
Yeah, nothing moves, it feels like a pulsation on my skin but nothing is moving. Neither my skin nor my muscles move. I'm trying to understand what causes this sensation. What is point with that quote?
Maybe it's the same thing I recently had. After running a half marathon in April this year and cycling another 20km from and to the course, I also had some weird muscle cramps when finally taking a rest. It was almost like something was crawling under my skin. My muscles felt like they were cramping together and releasing very quickly and very locally in tiny spots all over my calves. It was such a surreal feeling. Kinda creepy and weird, but at the same time also kinda nice and satisfying.
I think your experience sounds like the benign fasciculation another lemming described. Look for the video link among the comments
