Cramps?

Sometimes in the evenings I get cramps in my foot, I stand by the heater and put warmer socks on and drink more water then eventually the cramps go away.  Ive never had foot cramps this bad before, I was wondering if anyone else gets those and what you do to help it?  

I get horrible, painful, tear-inducing, curse-word-y foot, leg and hand cramps when my magnesium (and sometimes potassium) levels are low.  I take mega-doses of magnesium citrate and the cramps stop... but when I forget or run out, they start again.  Have you had labs done lately?

FYI avoid magnesium oxide, the cheapest and most common form available in the store.  It's a good laxative, but it's the least bio-available form of mag out there.... you would have to take lots more to make up lower levels.

Audrey

I take magnesium daily otherwise I get debilitating leg cramps.

Minerals: salt, magnesium and potasium. Pickles work great. Pickle juice. 

Salt and the minerals keep the water in our body and muscles. 

Thanks everyone!  I used to eat a banana when I would have cramps but that was before surgery.  

I used to get horrible painful, foot  cramps for about the first 3mth when I went to bed and through the night.  Seems to be gone now ????  I thought it may have been dehydration related, not sure .