Re: amazing tips for cramp

On 15 May 2008 09:14:52 GMT, Nick Cramer <n_cramerSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Trinkwasser <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:
Trinkwasser <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Miles wrote:
"Kevin D. Quitt" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My understanding (though I can't remember where I got it from) is that
electrolytes need to be looked at as a whole, sodium potassium and
calcium levels and the ratios between them (and maybe other things
like magnesium levels might interract)

My potassium is too high (5.6 mEq/L), but I take sodium (Kosher salt)
magnesium, zinc, calcium and selenium. They helped for a while, but as my
neuropathy advances, I've started getting nocturnal leg cramps again. I've
been getting up and walking for five minutes, when I can't deal with them
by massage. I massage the upper end of the cramped muscle (just below the
knee), rather firmly. That usually does it.

Yes they're a bugger aren't they? My old man (nondiabetic) used to get
killer thigh cramps in his later years.

Mine are comparatively mild and the first thing I tried was sodium
(salt) which had no effect. Yup I tried the magnesium and zinc, didn't
bother with calcium as there's so much in the water anyway, or
selenium as we have a local abundance. They went away on their own but
returned when I started taking sodium bicarbonate so I tried the
potassium salt with some success <crosses fingers, but carefully>

Yours seem to be going the other way. Do you have circulation issues
which could be addressed? - that might help as mechanical actions are
helping.
.

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