Leg/Foot Cramps at Night

I will have to check it out. Thanks!

I also started taking magnesium and potassium with one of my calcium doses early in the day (I take calcium 2 times per day), then added an Epsom salt (not actually a salt, it's magnesium and sulphate) foot soak at night before bed. I have a hard time sleeping since surgery and this has had some benefit in that it's warm and relaxing. But your skin can absorb the magnesium very well just before bed and that definitely helped with my nuclear charlie horses I was getting!

Might be worth a try ~ good luck! :)

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Ditto what every one says here .... I hope you get some relief after adding the extra supplements. I know they are painful.

I to deal with same issues. The cramps are so bad that I can not sleep, literally has me crying. So I started taking the magnesium like others have suggested but I also drink either G2 low sugar but mostly powerade 0 and it seriously works. I drink a big Powerade a couple hours before bedtime it has helped so much along with all the water.

I also get the cramps in the same areas you mentioned plus my inner thighs up into the groin area and my hamstrings. ABSOLUTELY ridiculously painful.

Definitely try the powerade I'm telling you it has saved me. I still get them every once in awhile.

I have been getting these since I was a kid! Literally, my mom wouldn't put a home-made quilt on my bed because I would chew the ends due to the severe cramps! When I ate a banana a day, they stopped, but since I can't have the banana, I'm on supplements of both magnesium and potassium. I take them with my multivitamins every day and don't get the cramps!

Old country doctor said to drink a cup of tonic water before bed, cause nothing else worked, lo and behold the cramps stopped. make sure it has quinine in it, and let it go flat, but, it works.

I know this will sound crazy, but if you want to battle a rapid onset leg or foot cramp... take some sips of pickle juice. This has saved me a couple of times in the past year when I would get these bad leg cramps. I heard about it somewhere tried it and laughed my ass off when it worked. This is only a temporary relief to get past the pain. Good luck.

Sucking on a dill pickle works, but still follow the advice you were given