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To: Monkey Face

Do you take supplementary magnesium? I had leg cramps at night many years ago and that seemed to stop them.


2,080 posted on 05/01/2013 8:02:25 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Only you can choose to give up your rights.)
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To: Silentgypsy

It’s the potassium that stops the leg cramps. Orange juice will do it, as will vitamin C. I just took two potassium pills and walked until the cramps dissipated. I took all my daily pills while I was gone, but didn’t always take the Emergen-C, which stops the leg cramps. I know better, so it’s my own fault.


2,086 posted on 05/01/2013 8:21:37 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I believe the squirrels are mocking me.)
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To: Silentgypsy; Monkey Face

To confuse matters, I used to get leg cramps at night, and I read somewhere that they’re from low calcium.

I added a calcium citrate dose to my vitamins, and the cramps went away, but as I kept taking it, the cramps returned.

Turns out I have to be very careful with the dose, too much and too little both cause the cramps.

Take the m and s out of cramps. [place result here]!!

But perhaps I shouldn’t have spoken, since I react weirdly to prescription drugs and vitamins.

Probably because I’m a mutant alien from another planet, and my mother just never told me.

It just became obvious after the tenth or twelfth doctor looked at my ailment and said, and I quote,

“I’ve never seen that before!” or in response to my reaction to whatever drug he or she gave me, “It doesn’t DO that!”


2,099 posted on 05/01/2013 9:19:46 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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