COVID-19 and leg cramps.....

Drink milk and eat bananas. My mother used to drink quinine water for night leg cramps. A doctor I spoke to said no significant relevance, but that the quinine makes the water taste good.

My ex gym trainer claims not enough water. (This seemed valid as well, for workouts at least).

moto g(7) power ?

 

+1 on the bananas or do as my wife does. She takes a single potassium supplement about every 3-4 days. It's been very effective when she gets them.

 

Hopefully that helps. Be careful with dosage. Too much can mess with your blood workup. Some places actually use forms of high dose potassium to execute people . . .

 

... or various electrolyte products or anti-cramp remedies for bicycling or other athletics. Though bananas are also on top of the list for those activities too, if you can still stand them.

I don't recall having any nighttime leg cramps since beginning to pay attention to daytime cycling issues.

 

Being the lead sled dog is good with this treatment.

 

Mushrooms are also a good source of potassium.
Some kinds you shouldn't eat a lot of though.

 

The problem is that you're diluting it with too much gin.

Or maybe that's the solution.

I can't remember.

 

EDIT: Oops! I meant to put the following in the Food Store thread...

The store I work at has been able to increase the quantity of shelved items for the past 4 days and we no longer look like a grocer in the Soviet Union circa 1985. Bread is still being hit up hard, along with every single frozen item. Frozen pizza is still very scarce. TP was available again today, just not a pallet like what we'd want to bring in daily. Except for frozen foods, we are beginning to look like our old selves again, and are planning to eliminate the 2-item limit ASAP.

The special senior morning line policy began today, but haven't had much problem with that even before that went into effect since we have been walking the line anyway to ask older, pregnant or disabled individuals to please step forward. Everyone already in the line has been nice and in fact proactive helping those individuals move in front of them - a sort of self sorting situation. Good to see that the vast majority of people have been extremely understanding.

 

I have no solution.
But I have suffered from nighttime calf/ankle cramps that are so severe they waken me from sound sleep, and all I can hope to do, is jump out of bed safely and stand on the leg/calf/foot, before the cramp has made that impossible.

I have tried vitamins, minerals-Doctor recommended, and other remedies from friends, family and neighbors, but the attacks just seem random and totally unpredictable and uncontrollable.

 

Night time calf muscle cramps. Take a 99mg Potassium pill 1 hour before bedtime. Seems to have prevented it for six months.

 

OTC potassium supplements are worthless. Because too much of the stuff can kill you, the govt restricts the OTC pills to such a piddly dose, you are wasting your money. As mentioned bananas are the best way to go, or if your "health professional" prescribes a rx for it.

Have been getting calf issues in the past couple of weeks. My hydration level has been pitiful. Upped my water intake and added a banana a day and no more issues for the past four days. .

 

Magnesium!!!

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Try magnesium on a empty stomach.

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Try taking on a empty stomach.

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my potassium is at the high end of the scale, but i still get charley horse behind my thighs from time to time at night.
i'll take a look at my magnesium level