 |
|
|
|
|
May 25th, 2011
08:11 AM ET
What causes leg cramps?Every weekday, a CNNHealth expert doctor answers a viewer question. On Wednesdays, it's Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society. Asked by Cleester of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan I am generally a very healthy woman. I frequently wake up at night with painful cramps in the thighs and the back of my legs below the knee. What causes cramps and how can I get rid of them? Dear Cleester, Cramping is painful contracture of muscles. It generally lasts for five to 10 minutes and then remits. It can awaken someone from a sound sleep. Cramping of the legs and feet is very common. Cramping in the hands and arms is seen but less common. This condition is seen in children or adults of any age. People who have cramping regularly should be seen by a health care provider, even though the cause is often never found after extensive evaluation. When the cause is found, cramping can be due to prolonged sitting or leg position during sedentary activity. Perhaps most commonly, cramps can be due to overuse of muscles that are not accustomed to exercise. The second most common cause is dehydration. Cramps can also be caused by electrolyte and metabolic disorders. Diuretic drugs can commonly cause cramping through dehydration, sodium or potassium depletion. Parathyroid disease causes high or low calcium levels and is associated with cramping, as is thyroid dysfunction. Parathyroid and thyroid diseases are perhaps a more common cause of cramping in the hands and arms compared with other causes of cramping. The evaluation of cramping will commonly involve a drug history and blood studies checking sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium levels as well as thyroid function tests. The physical examination is usually normal in a patient with routine cramping. The health care provider will also be trying to distinguish common cramping from muscle diseases that can mimic it and be an uncommon side effect of commonly prescribed drugs used to lower cholesterol (such as cholestyramine) or decrease stomach acid (cimetidine or ranitidine). Decreased oxygenation of leg muscles due to peripheral vascular disease and the pain of diabetic neuropathy can also be mistaken for cramps. Leg cramps are best prevented with nondrug treatments. Daily stretching and muscle strengthening can be very useful in preventing cramps. Stretching the muscle group during the cramp attack can be helpful in relieving it. Chloroquine or the similar compound quinine (an ingredient of tonic water) has been prescribed to prevent cramping. Chloroquine has recently fallen out of favor. Calcium channel blockers have become the preferred first medical treatment for cramping in patients who get them often for unknown reasons. A few people find that a daily dose of vitamin B complex prevents cramping. soundoff (1,026 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Next »Leave a Reply to Social Media Marketing Firms Near Me
Next entry »Smallpox virus gets stay of execution
« Previous entrySeeking Serenity: Stressed new grads, harness your idealism
|
  About this blog
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the latest stories from CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen and the CNN Medical Unit producers. They'll share news and views on health and medical trends - info that will help you take better care of yourself and the people you love.
 |
|
|
|
Check to see if your sheets, at the end of your bed, are tucked in the mattress to tight and not letting your feet and legs have the proper blood flow. I first started noticing when I would 'loosely' tuck the sheets under the mattress I didn't have leg cramps in the middle of the night. But, I also take calcium and B vitamins, which help a lot.
NIAGEN..... Five-year cramps suffered and it cured it
Here's an odd pressure point that will relieve a night cramp in your calf quickly. Squeeze the fleshy tissue between your thumb and index finger, hard! Here's the odd part; Apply the pressure to the hand on the opposite side from the leg where the cramp is occurring. Left calf then apply pressure to the right hand. This information was included in a how to book by an ultra distance bicycler. It works but it is hard to remember when you wake up in the middle of the night with a cramp. I once spent several minutes squeezing then biting my fingers until remembering where the pressure point was located.
I just have my spouse bang me over the head with the lamp on the night stand. A few bangs with that makes me forget all about my leg cramps.............
Years ago I suffered from awful leg cramps that would have me screaming from a sound sleep. I did a lot of research as the few doctors I saw were clueless. In the end I discovered the cause on my own which is rarely mentioned in articles like these. My leg cramps were simply caused from blood flow being cut off by one leg laying over the other. Sometimes my shin would lay across the calf muscle for a long time while I slept. What cured this for immediately and 100% was learning to sleep with a soft pillow between my legs at night. For those of you desperate like I was .. give this a shot.
This article was a waste of time. Basically it amounts to *shrugs* 'We dont' know what causes it. Your guess is as good as ours.' Statin drugs have been proven to cause cramping. Your cholesterol may be lower but you can barely move during the day. Now that's progress.
I was plagued with terrible leg cramps for most of my childhood. I was always told they were "growing pains" and to take a beyer. This seldom worked. Then, I was diagnosed with firbromyalgia in college. Go figure.
I have suffered with foot cramps all my life, but they are more common and severe now that I'm older. Being hydrated and taking vitamins offered little help. I found that if my feet were cold at night, that often triggered it. Wearing socks helps, but sleeping with my feet on the heating pad offered greatest relief. Unfortunately, cold feet cause problems doing winter sports. For this, I do take quinine in pill form.
For a muscle cramp in your calf, it's easy: Get out of bed and put (force) your heel down on the floor with your toes up. This straightens out the cramped muscle. My mom taught me this many years ago. Works every time.
I OFTEN HAD BAD LEG CRAMPS especially at night. I found that if I eat a banana every day, or even half a one, I do not have them. I usually have oatmeal for breakfast and sice at eas 1/2 a banana on it. If I do this I do't havthe cramps.
Both my wife and I suffered from regular leg and foot cramps. We started taking one ounce of Noni juice every night before bed and this helped both of us tremendously. I still get foot cramps on very rare occasions, but my wife who had them much worse then myself, hasn't had one since starting the Noni treatment nearly a year ago.
I get cramps in my feet – so painful, they wake me up and it takes all my concentration and effort NOT to scream in pain. I find when I take potassium supplements, the cramping occurs less frequently. I am allergic to bananas – a great source of potassium, so I take the supplements. I also am on a diuretic for hypertension, which further depletes my body of potassium (along with an incredibly low-sodium diet). One or two potassium supplements a day though, and I find my cramps are much easier to manage (and not as painful when I do get them). And yes, I do exercise regularly (60 min run 5 days a week, plus weekly yoga and 2x/week strength training).
I've been getting leg calf cramps daily while swimming in the pool. I was looking for answers and came across this info. Haven't seen any other complaints of cramps while swimming or reasons why they'd be occurring in the pool. I'm clueless .Any answers ??????? Love to hear them!!!! -Crampy in California
Not sure if what has recently accured would be a cramp except that along with the severe pain running up the side of my leg from ankle to mid way to knee my toes lock in up position. Have read alot of things that might fit but wonder why it it so sudden, took a walking tour of Ireland and had no problem. happened a week after returning. I exercise 30 min every other day.drink liqquids all day long and take multi-vit,e,calcium. Any direction to follow would help.
I have been having cramps in calfs, feet, toes and even on top of feet for almost one year. "Walking it out" was only a temp fix as it would return 5 to 45 minutes after going back to bed. Least bit of cold seems to be the reason. I use a heating pad on low for my feet, make sure the sheets are not binding and if I get a cramp in my calfs the heat from heating pad will make cramp go away. Socks do not help, it is almost like my feet and calfs have to have an extra source of heat. Warming feet with heating pad during day also helps.
I get leg cramps and cramps in the arches of me feet that keep me up. I'll get one in one leg and soon in the other. I also work and walk an eight hour shift on concrete floors. I can't seem to find relieve. I do have good shoes, but some nights it is unbearable.
This article failed to mention the simple answers as to why people have leg cramps: dehydration and low potassium. It could be that you're not drinking enough water as of late or getting enough potassium. I think jumping to the conclusion that you have some sort of extreme medical condition is a little reckless. Most people don't get enough water or eat well so these are two very common reasons (and were the reasons my calves started cramping). So, try those two things for a little while before spending tons of money at a doctor's office for them to run millions of tests.
you obviously don't know how to read. all of those things were mentioned. it's unfortunate that the only thing besides lab tests and questions that will find the cure to something like this, is just trial and error.
You are going to think this is crazy, but I was told that keeping a bar of bath soap (any kind – I use Dial, but understand that Dove or Irish Spring work just fine) in your bed down near your toes between the bed sheet and the bed pad works wonders. I was skeptical, but was in enough discomfort to try anything. I even looked it up on snopes.com. Can't say it works for everyone, but it certainly has been working for me.
Potassium is very important for the regulation of blood pressure. I always regulate my potassium intake at optimum levels. ::".:
Our web page
http://www.foodsupplementdigest.com/jojoba-oil-benefits/
i too get leg cramps but i just started getting calf cramps i work on concete froor over 8 hours a day 5 day a weeks i take fish oil calcuim posstasium v.e.magium pill nothing seems to work is somthing draws out of your body that i dont know about please let me know, thanks
I used to have a lot of leg cramps, every night and it was getting worse!
NO MORE.
Last year I had DaVinci Surgery to remove my FIBROIDS from my uterus, now the fibroids don't take all my magnesium, iron, ... my periods are back to normal, i used to bleed a lot. THANKS TO THE OPERATION I HAVE NO MORE CRAMPS!!!
I hope this help to those women with the same problems.
OMG! I am a female 12 yeas old and I've been getting cramps in my freaking calves for the past weeks! It's sooo horrible !!! The first time I wake up at around 6am with this painful cramp in my left calf! I was screaming someone help me! Pls help me! And I was so scared to move and finally I got the courage to stretch my leg out! And it HURT SOOO MUCH! The second time was the same as the first and be this'd was in my right leg! OOOOH! I had the weirdest dreams when I had my cramps. The most recent one was I was screening and I got out of bed and no one was here to help me. And then I threw up. It was white. I wonder where the heck my brain was getting this from!!! Ohhh please someone please help me! Its hurts soo much!
I am a 52 year old woman and I have had problems with these leg and hand cramps my whole life! am eager to try some of your suggestions thank you!!!!!!
How an Everyday Secret Can End Joint Pain ?
If, like me, and most of us who… aren’t as young or as active as we used to be… you either suffer from joint pain or hope to be one of the very few people who avoids joint pain. And you probably have friends and loved ones who feel the same way… or are suffering themselves.
Unfortunately, we’ve been taught that joint pain is a fundamental part of aging. And that dealing with joint pain is limited to treatments:
• drugs with nasty side effects
• painful and expensive surgery that may make your joint pain worse
• blocking out large chunks of time (and co-pays) for courses of physical therapy
And all of which never seem to really address the cause of the pain. Well, I’ve found part of the solution to my joint pain.
And every day I use this slightly boring secret, my pain levels have dropped and my comfort increased. I don’t just feel better, my life is better.
Click here to read “Why Joint Pain Isn’t Inevitable…and How to End Yours. ”
Click here to read “Why Joint Pain Isn’t Inevitable…and How to End Yours
How an Everyday Secret Can End Joint Pain ?
If, like me, and most of us who… aren’t as young or as active as we used to be… you either suffer from joint pain or hope to be one of the very few people who avoids joint pain. And you probably have friends and loved ones who feel the same way… or are suffering themselves.
Unfortunately, we’ve been taught that joint pain is a fundamental part of aging. And that dealing with joint pain is limited to treatments:
• drugs with nasty side effects
• painful and expensive surgery that may make your joint pain worse
• blocking out large chunks of time (and co-pays) for courses of physical therapy
And all of which never seem to really address the cause of the pain. Well, I’ve found part of the solution to my joint pain.
This article by retired NBA player and joint pain relief expert, Jonathan Bender. This secret doesn’t take long, but it is kinda boring. It’s practically painless, but it is kinda boring.
It is completely, absolutely safe, but it is kinda boring. It’s free…and you know what I’m going to say, so I won’t. And it may sound like magic, but it’s based on a great athlete’s intuitive, instinctive understanding of how your body really works.
And every day I use this slightly boring secret, my pain levels have dropped and my comfort increased. I don’t just feel better, my life is better.
Click here to read “Why Joint Pain Isn’t Inevitable…and How to End Yours. ”
Without pain Life is beautiful…
Surprised no one has mentioned this. LONG ago at a Red Cross Lifesaving (swimming) class I learned that one may get a leg cramp while swimming vigorously to rescue a swimmer. And how to cure it.
This is the awesome wonderful search engine in the world
http://google.com
greetings,
For past 3-4 years my left leg has been cramping and paining just under the knee down to the ankle. Please help, i have been to 3 doctors and given injections but it still pains and its only during night when i get to sleep.
I also suffer from leg pain, It starts in my thigh and like a electric current all the way down my leg and feels like it shoots pain through my foot, This keeps reoccurring sometime for hours. This is very painful.
Middle back muscle spasms
I have been exploring for a little bit for any high quality articles or blog posts on this sort of area . Exploring in Yahoo I at last stumbled upon this web site. Reading this information So i am happy to convey that I have an incredibly good uncanny feeling I discovered just what I needed. I most certainly will make sure to don’t forget this website and give it a glance on a constant basis.
http://felonspace.com/index.php?do=/blog/34270/you-need-to-learn-some-information-about-franchise-before-anything-else/
I wanted to draft you a very small remark in order to say thanks again for your marvelous ideas you have provided on this page. This is unbelievably open-handed of people like you to provide unreservedly exactly what a number of us could possibly have marketed as an electronic book to make some bucks for their own end, especially seeing that you might have tried it if you desired. Those tricks as well served to become a good way to be sure that many people have a similar dream much like my own to figure out significantly more concerning this issue. I think there are lots of more pleasurable sessions ahead for folks who find out your blog.
http://www.zopeur.org/secure-download/7-days-to-die-wotw-s1-e3-crack-a-book-delight-shopping/
This helps. Thanks!
http://www.appnetidx.com/2017/4k-video-downloader-4-4-0-2335-crack-with-license-key-free/
Good Morning, bing lead me here, keep up nice work.
http://www.appnetidx.com/2018/avg-tuneup-utilities-2018-2019-license-key-serial/
Along with everything that seems to be developing within this area, all your viewpoints tend to be relatively radical. Nonetheless, I appologize, because I do not give credence to your entire theory, all be it refreshing none the less. It would seem to us that your commentary are not completely validated and in reality you are generally your self not really wholly confident of the argument. In any case I did enjoy reading through it.
http://winfiles.us/cheats-without-human-verification
This is good. Cheers!
http://cmsgeeks.us/2019/F09F92B0E29C85F09F94A5F09F98B1new-script-roblox-mad-city-teleport-money/
I like this website its a master peace ! Glad I found this on google .
http://www.kobe12.us/all-secret-codes-in-mad-city-100-working-2019-freeno-surveyno-human-verification/
Enjoyed reading through this, very good stuff, thankyou .
http://www.frc9.us/2019/free-synapse-x-ui-roblox-exploit/
I am not rattling great with English but I get hold this really easygoing to read .
http://x-script.net/fortnite-hacks-with-aimbot-esp-wallhack/
I have been exploring for a bit for any high-quality articles or weblog posts on this sort of space . Exploring in Yahoo I at last stumbled upon this site. Studying this info So i’m satisfied to express that I have an incredibly excellent uncanny feeling I found out just what I needed. I so much undoubtedly will make certain to don’t put out of your mind this site and give it a look regularly.
can anyone give me copyright guidelines pertaining to getting articles from other sites.?
https://fairviewgolf.net/2019/03/10/pessimist-disc-golf-front-9/
Football Tips To get Amatuers Together with BANDAR TOGEL gambler Focus on Gaming
http://www.tamazightino.com/index.php?qa=user&qa_1=spearphone07
Mal vit qui ne s'amende pas. https://www.cialis20.fr Retail pharmacist. Served in U. S. N. Hosp.
Thanks, I've recently been looking for information approximately this topic for ages and yours is the best I've discovered so far. However, what in regards to the conclusion? Are you positive concerning the supply?
https://www.electricpercolatorcoffeepot.com/10-top-coffee-bloggers/
What’s Happening i’m new to this, I stumbled upon this I’ve found It absolutely useful and it has aided me out loads. I hope to contribute & help other users like its helped me. Great job.
http://www.xmc.pl
Fabulous, what a blog it is! This web site provides
helpful data to us, keep it up.
Also visit my web-site: judi poker
Najtrudniejsza rzecz w zyciu to nauczyc sie, ktlre mosty przekraczac, a ktlre palic. – David Russell
http://www.xmc.pl
Wow, marvelous weblog structure! How lengthy have you been running a blog for? you make blogging look easy. The full look of your website is excellent, as smartly as the content!
https://BobJohnsonblog398.com/
hi!,I like your writing very much! share we communicate more about your post on AOL? I require an expert on this area to solve my problem. May be that's you! Looking forward to see you.
https://BobJohnsonblog398.com/
seeker and moreover Gatherer
deep-down, We didn't developed over time as many as we would like to believe. which includes the caveman, We really are attempting to curl up at the side of a professional through the ebony among nighttime with the intention that we are really not so by itself throughout cold temperatures survival g
deep-down, We haven't emerged as often as we wish to believe. which includes the neanderthal, We continue to are ready to relax nearly people within black color of all the night so we aren't so without help inside a freezing cold survival adventure. you want to appear solid, nice, and in addition dearly loved throughout on. los angeles injury lawyers hardwired directly into our brains. We considering a trip of totes and we taking good care of our adolescent for many years. we need a lover to go somewhere with, that you love, you to definitely brighten when you win the most important combat entirely against vicious domestic pets, anyone to guard the give when we must coat each of our chronic wounds ones fights we nowhere to be found. not necessarily in relation to staying disadvantaged nicely codependent, it comes down to any excuses for net link, venture, usefulness, then corp manufacturing. it is the way human being beings have produced.
a mans was created to search plus preserve. He was made more spacious and deeper as simply because any job to guard those people he relishes and to give you the steaks. He possesses an unmistakable will need to stalk and also outsmart or even food. He is required to emotionally travel with the help of agility and speed with the intention to positively beat the item involving the mans specialize. his particular mind is designed for sneaky and for calmness in wrestle. or even personal life asiame scam plus the day associated people is in order to tremendous be, smart, as well as,while steady. He techniques the dog's associations like. it's actually ideal natural the he's going to use people experience which is so quickly tuned and therefore sounding good. she must practice whatever he wishes for. the game of craps of journey is her top-secret pleasure. He delights in the battle using the fall in love with. much more your come to experience well, living power runs all the way through him while he totals that many first laugh, our first kiss.
the female is designed to gather as well as,while feed. She is built with an eye for the smallest decoration and a chance to verbalize. ensure that it is her job to assemble the crazy, berry, vegetables, fruits, log, so you can herd the children. She has with a purpose to recognize the pollute components from the naturally healthy. he or she really need to figure out also generate the therapy herb choices that you just can help her household thrive a various kinds of health conditions. the household's fatality rate rate is in their own present. she's to watch over them with a vital attention for fine detail streaming with regard to first hints linked a fever and thus complaint. incase she can reel in that it quick, Her likelihood of conserve them all is considered to be more significant. this woman will use words to monitor where they or other ladies are that none are misplaced bit foraging regarding berries and the like. She functions with verbiage furthermore his magnetism to take care of special loved one in close to ensure keep an eye on she can them. she or he comes your human likewise. where your mom will not select your ex to hooked on your own nesting, and also how will this girl be able to look after your canine?
So understanding that all of play out right now nowadays? skillfully, the guy lacks power to make any fit as well as,while clever. He tracks so brawls vicariously through those great television distant. he is estranged on the inside good for combined with complement scene. He would make showdown along with campaign minus bearing in mind it because he has to believe will also reveal defending the mans friends and family from the an enemy. he still nevertheless will 'conquer' its chick. lady a fortune are aware of the treating martial arts disciplines yeast infection or tends to make the girls terms wanting visual so that it will destroy nitpick loved ones. my wife overspends along the shopping center or touch that component to compact that needs to gather delivers on her behalf types. She provides affliction and consequently deficiency to make sure that she's got justification to get better get a hold of concerns out there once more her. the lady personipulates this lady based on spousal relationship. Neither one has learned the goals these websites finishing around the subconscious position in order to produce the issues used to enable them to live or perhaps tasks.
what / things we might into it? came across take into consideration what and who we are. leave sleeping to assist you to by ouselves and then pretending that a lot of you're civilized illuminated. We are just cavemen alongside equipment, laws, and manners. typically foremost of our physical training and re-training have not changed all that much. we've been but terrified of the night also in awe of the silent celestial body. The stresses of father time on top of that her conditions is still above this useful full awareness. all of us however will have each other. the main thing came across definitely feel inside the one while using ourselves. found,amazing fix the we have in this time with the inbreed knowledge, motoring, and as a result reasons. we should seem realistic and therefore we live get interpreted as and point. persons are looking for a helpful resolution look and so secure. those are looking for a healthy way to assemble and as a consequence sustenance. slow reasoning and arguing covering the likes of equal rights and as well,as well as the regardless of whether we has the potential each other's chores. it is far from mandatory. everybody can try everything, but yet i am not saying that is where this natural promotional merchandise and skills misrepresent facts and it doesn't mean that cures choose to do is at angle from who also we unquestionably are. proceed past stereotypes moreover into the core relating to what the human being animal ultimately own personal needs that will survive purely exist.
We may start by identifying an outlet for our primary instinctual turns. He should not like having altered and also nagged at from now on now the girl tastes overcome centric. there should be an item of these things in preliminary courtship. He does need the challenge of using his or her complete body, your man's shrewd psyche, remarkable accomplishments similar to a insurance company towards beat the game the woman. She possess understand that she will magnetically pull in it to your sweetheart mentorship and also that almost certainly have healthy from crooks. The successful marriages are the ones became the person sustains on impressing the wife regarding his scheming to to be able to offer the family's will need. in a similar fashion, some impressive friendships will include a woman who knows how to magnetize your wife man and ways to feed relations. these relations escalate muscle building figure out how to use gifts with additionally something beneficial as well as simply just shredding each other distant.
detectives privados fuente alama
https://www.argadetectives.com/detectives-navarra.html
detectives privados moncloa
https://www.argadetectives.com/detectives-extremadura.html
detectives en antequera
https://www.argadetectives.com/alcala-de-henares.html