Re: Cramps and now pins and needles

[Guest guest]

how about potassium, calcium? have you googled these deficiencies

people go on about sodium, magnesium, but calcium and potassium are important

too - everything has to be balanced......

Chris

http://www.livestrong.com/article/353968-hamstring-cramps-potassium-deficiency/

http://www.medicinenet.com/muscle_cramps/article.htm

" Low blood calcium, magnesium: Low blood levels of either calcium or magnesium

directly increase the excitability of both the nerve endings and the muscles

they stimulate. This may be a predisposing factor for the spontaneous true

cramps experienced by many older adults, as well as for those that are commonly

noted during pregnancy. Low levels of calcium and magnesium are common in

pregnant women unless these minerals are supplemented in the diet. Cramps are

seen in any circumstance that decreases the availability of calcium or magnesium

in body fluids, such as taking diuretics, hyperventilation (overbreathing),

excessive vomiting, inadequate calcium and/or magnesium in the diet, inadequate

calcium absorption due to vitamin D deficiency, poor function of the parathyroid

glands (tiny glands in the neck that regulate calcium balance), and other

conditions.

Low potassium: Low potassium levels occasionally cause muscle cramps, although

it is more common for low potassium to be associated with muscle weakness. "

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> I am having trouble with cramp and wondering if anyone can shed light on it.

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> I've mentioned before that if I point my toes my arches go into cramp - that's

easily avoided though of course!

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[Guest guest]

Ah now that makes more sense - Sheila did say my potassium was too low (in range

but low), and my vitamin D is definitely low (trying to sort treatment for that

at mo) - so possibly an absorption issue for the others then. I have lifelong

IBS too which won't be helping.

Thanks

Niki