Any good home remedies/ideas for severe calf cramping? Getting them both at night and during the day.
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Dragonflydawn
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Short of an illness, cramping is caused by a potassium deficiency. Take lots of potassium.
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I have found, over many years experience, that a calcium+magnesium supplement works wonders for the night-time calf cramps. I don't get them during the day so I can't speak to that.
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I've always been told to eat bananas for leg cramps. Seems the potassium is supposed to help. Anyway, its worked for me.
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Sounds like you have dehydration. Drink more fluids (preferably water) and take, at least, a hi-potency multiple vitamin!
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You possibly need more calcium and/or potassium, try milk and bananas
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You too, eh? If you find something that works let me know. I've been trying potassium, water, muscle relaxants etc... nothing seems to help. I had a real bad attack early this morning. Crying and hobbling around the room, trying to make it go away. Nothing like waking up to that in the middle of the night. I've had three surgeries on my back and this seems to be a symptom that stays around. Good luck.
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bananas...........eat them, not you are
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That was my first clue that I had fibromyalgia. I think I'd had it for some time before that, I can remember being tired and sore all the time back to elementary school, but as a senior in high school I started getting terrible cramps in my chest muscles that made it hard to breathe and that fall when I started college, I started getting unbearable cramps in my calves. Eventually, it settled into cramps all over my body, but it took over twenty years until I got a diagnosis. If it persists and nothing gives you relief, you might want to consider the possibility that you may have fibromyalgia. http://www.webmd.com/fibromyalgia/default.htm
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