Magnesium Eases Leg Cramps

I started magnesium supplements months ago, in desperation because of really painful leg cramps that prevented a good night's sleep, and it WORKS! I've also made a conscious effort not to sleep curled up, to instead keep my legs pretty much straight at night, and that has helped too.

Magnesium at bedtime, is good for initial sleep.. (learned it in Graedon's Pharmacy book).

Just a suggestion that I have found works well with leg cramps.... as soon as one starts, pinch your nose at the top of the bridge, and also pinch below your nose above your lip, and keep pinching until the cramp goes away. I've had success with this... worth a try!

A nutritionist told me years ago that calcium and magnesium work together to assist in the relaxation phase of muscle use. He recommended the combination not only for cramps but to help one relax and sleep better. Works for me.

My husband has suffered from severe muscle spasms in his legs after a day of being on his feet a lot. I read where a football team took dill pickle juice with them always, so the next time he suffered one I gave his about 1 and 1/2 ounces of pickle juice and the muscle spasm was gone immediately.

I have been doing this for at least 10 years now and it always works.

I use a cake of soap under the sheet at the bottom of the bed this has completely stopped my Restless legs. If I am really tired and sitting at the computer til late, I put a bit of soap in my pocket and that fixes that too.

Crazy as it sounds, an Old Wives Tale has it that a bar of soap put between the sheets at the foot of your bed will curb Restless Legs. I tried it and it has worked for me for over a year! I warned you it sounds crazy!

I make pickles with cauliflower, beans, red pepper, hot banana green pepper, onions, carrots, tumeric, rice wine vinegar, maple syrup, mustard seed, celery seed, dill, dill seed, fennel seed, coriander seed. I mix it up. I don't use all these ingredients every time. But I drink the pickle juice, and eat a jar of pickles two times a week, sometimes more. Love homemade pickles, year round.

The best cure I have discovered for leg cramps is stretching. I stretch every night at bedtime, especially the hamstring area and calves and my leg cramp problem is completely cured.

I thought the soap in the sheets was working for me, but it stopped working, so maybe it never was. When I was pregnant a few years ago and really bothered by RLS I noticed some degree of relief if I ate 3 or 4 bananas during the day.

PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: TWO THINGS TO CONSIDER:
PERHAPS THE SOAP NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
PERHAPS THE CRAMPS ARE CAUSED BY AN IRON DEFICIENCY. ASK YOUR DOCTOR TO CHECK FOR ANEMIA.

POSSIBLE low potassium or calcium??? My Dr. told me to drink tonic water (quinine) but since since quinine was removed from tonic, I tried eating bananas -potassium- and calcium and it worked for me.

I have suffered from RLS for years. This is not the same as leg cramps, which from my reading can be helped with potassium, magnesium, and/or calcium as well as stretching. After researching on the web, in particular rls.org (Restless Leg Syndrome Foundation) I suspected that my problem might be low iron. My doctor then ordered a blood test for my hematocrit levels as well as my feratin levels (iron stores in the brain). Both were extremely low.

Since then I have been taking over the counter slow-release iron every day and I have very few RLS symptoms. Anemia is not the cause for everyone, but if you've every been anemic it's worth a try!

I experienced leg cramps during both of my pregnancies. Among other treatments which I'm sure I also tried, I read that magnesium would help. Those treatments worked for me, so I would imagine that magnesium would work for all types of leg cramping.

I don't know about magnesium for leg cramps, but I do know its great for migraine headaches.

I use to suffer with migraines so bad that I had a kit to give myself shots. I could never bring myself to give myself a shot. I had heard about magnesium being good for migraines, so I thought what can it hurt to try it.
I have taken it for years now and NO MIGRAINES!! It truly worked for me.

I take potassium tablets twice per day for leg cramps. On occasion, I still get the leg cramps and when that happens, I eat a tablespoon of any kind of regular mustard. The mustard eases the cramps immediately!

God bless you all. The crazies as well as the not so. When you are experiencing pain, your willing to try anything to make it stop. I get hellacious cramps in my calfs almost every night. They "hit" when I enter into a completely relaxed deep sleep. Annoying doesn't begin to describe the situation. I end up sleeping at my desk sitting up just to avoid the cramps which creates another list of problems, but with less pain.

I'll try everything listed here in the hopes of finding something that works. Any port in a storm:)