Leg cramps at night -

[Potdora]

Does anyone here experience leg cramps, especially at night time. I was a sufferer for years til magnesium was recommended to me a few years ago. I started taking magnesium and it was a game changer for me.

However I am going through a spell of night time leg cramps all over again for a number of weeks. The cramps are intense. Some nights I can wake with a cramp in one leg, eventually go back to sleep and wake with another cramp, in the other leg or in the same leg. I got three legs cramps one night last week. Not only that I am taking my magnesium supplement every day. So I don't know what's wrong.

I am down with a cold for the past two weeks and I think it's progressing into sinusitis now. I googled if there's an correlation of being sick and needing more magnesium. Apparantly your body needs magnesium to help fight infections but that's only according to Google. Would it have something to do with that I wonder?

I wear leggings under dressings instead of tights because they are more comfy but they are not right leggings. Lately I am going to bed wearing my clothes too. Would it be the leggings? Even though they are not right although the Primark ones are more of a snug fit I must admit.

Is there anything that helps leg cramps? The magnesium was working for a long time.

Plenty of water and magnesium usually sorts it for me. Could it be with the extra layer you are losing more water through sweat with wearing the leggings to bed? Or as you’ve said perhaps the body just has a higher demand at the moment due to the passing infection.

dehydration does it for me as well.

drink plenty during the day.

also stretch the areas where you get cramps before bed.

Yes it’s usually dehydration for me too. I do sympathise. It’s horrible.

I’m a fellow night time leg cramper. My entire adult life I’ve suffered on and off with cramp in my legs and feet when I go to bed…I find it so disruptive and upsetting.
I have tried eating lots of bananas to no avail and exhausted google on my search for a cure. Doctor can find nothing wrong. What dose did you take?
Im so sorry I have no advice other than maybe to try the magnesium leg cream (but it didn’t really work for me :(
following thread with interest (and some desperation!)

Thank you so much for helping me identifiy what's happening so that I can correct it. I think you are right. I am drinking plenty of fluids but perhaps not enough at this time. Since I came down with a cold two weeks ago (please fuck off cold and sinusitis), I am living in my oddie in the evenings and weekends and even going to bed with it. I am probably overheating with the layers on.

Thank you so much for helping me.

Magnesium supplement helped me so much. I never really went down the route of applying magnesium topically but I used a magnesium supplement to take orally. It definitely helped. It reduced the amount of cramps I got. Maybe down to about one or two maybe even three a year and when I did get cramps they were much less intense and they passed very quickly.

So when you go looking for a magnesium supplement, there's different types of magnesium. You wouldn't really know it really. You would be inclined to buy magnesium thinking magnesium is magnesium. What you would be looking for is a magnesium glycinate or sometimes or some brands might even call it magnesium bisglycinate. It's more easily absorbed by the body and you get better benefits for it too. Do try it. It helped me so much over the past few years since I learned about it.

I suffered tremendously with leg cramps from my teens into my 30s. When I woke with leg cramps, I would fit around the bed in pain, they are awful.

The magnesium is so good.

Get fluffing the water op and i Hope you feel better soon

I think I’m going to add magnesium to my vitamin roster.