leg cramp, foot cramp........CRAMP.........argh the pain!!!! (help)

[Psychomum5]

I am suffering really badly from cramp at the moment....mainly at night in my legs, but also during the day in my feet too!

it has been especially bad ever since my car accident in october, and as it now wakes me up at night too I have been given a prescription for quinin, which I have been taking since tuesday, but it is not working!

I am at the moment sat here wincing and trying to breath thro both feet cramping, and it is not something I seem to be able to avoid either as as soon as I stretch my feet, lo they cramp!

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

doctor said that it can also be a problem if the salts are out of balance in your body, but won;t do any blood tests as it is very hard to spot a reason from them.......I have not been eating great however since the accident (I am one of those who stops eating when under stress), so I do wonder if that is a reason....

if it is, is there anything that I could eat to help?? I am allergic to al dairy products tho so am finding calcium intake especially hard so any advice on that (if that could indeed be a reason) would be gratefully received (oh, and telling me to drinl soya won;t be helpful as I am still gagging at the thought of it).

TIA

well they say when your pg its lack of calcium and or potassium.

So that would be lots of milk and bananas

my MW told me to put some salt on my dinner each day.

I knew milk would be suggested.....garhhhh

banana's I can do however......forgot about banana's.....I get them weekly and they get eaten so quicky by the kiddies I blink and they're gone!!!!

will have to find a way of hiding some......

A banana at bedtime

Worked for me

Stash them in your knicker drawer

ah, salt on my dinner......

can do, but will have to actively think about that as I don;t use salt in cooking that much, let alone put it on my dinner (unless I make chips of course).

Even eating a milky pudding after a meal like rice pudding, hot chocolate, cereal, porridge, milkshake, horlicks.

You need to start using salt in your cooking or sprinkling it on your meal once it is cooked if you don't want the whole family to have it. But make sure they are getting enough salt too. Lack of salt can be very dangerous.

Also a large glass of tonic water (with gin ) has quinine in, it amy help

Medicinal G & T, nothing better!

I don't know if this would work for you but I get cramps at night and I find if I push down VERY HARD with my foot (ie as if trying to push base of foot into the bed) it stops it before it gets too bad
also you just have to try NOT to flex your feet!

so, so far I can have dinner with salt, a banana for pudding, followed by a large G&T.....sounds cool to me.

Nbg, any way of incorporating milky pudding without using the milk?? soya milk curdels when hot, and I haven;t tried other 'milks' yet.

would coconut milk have calcium in? (or is that not counted as it is from coconut IYGWIM)

franny....I find it very hard trying to think about NOT flexing my feet. I have to do physio excersises each night because of my hip injury and whiplash, plus I do lots and lots of ballet style excercises with the girls too for toning (and to remind them), and flexing my feet is automatic.

Canned sardines, and other fish where we eat the bones, are good sources of calcium. If you eat canned sardines in tomato sauce, two slices of toast, an orange and a small pot of fruit fromage frais, that would also give an adult enough calcium for the day.

Other sources of calcium include fortified breakfast cereal, soya beans, tofu, soya drinks with added calcium, dried figs, okra, curly kale, rice pudding and baked beans.

Other foods that contain calcium include:

soya beans and tofu
bread
pulses such as chickpeas
green vegetables, especially watercress and okra (but not spinach)
other vegetables, such as cabbage and onions
dried fruit, especially dried figs
nuts, such as almonds, and seeds, such as sesame seeds

From the food standards agency

ooh....thanks for that list.

I see chickpeas are listed.......that should therefore meana that hoummus is good and I eat lots of that.

am still rather keen on the G&T route however