Re: Full body muscle cramps

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Are you on restricted fluid intake at all? If not, are you drinking enough

water? Dehydration can cause cramping like that, even mild dehydration.

Caffeine is a natural diuretic so if you are drinking a lot of caffinated

things and taking a diuretic on top of it you may be dehydrating yourself

even though you are " drinking fluids " . You still need those eight 8oz

glasses of water a day to keep your body from dehydrating....more than that

if it is hot out or you are doing a lot of strenuous activity.

I'm not off the prednisone yet so I'm not sure if going off of it will cause

cramping. I had a lot of cramping when I started the prednisone but

drinking more water took care of it.

Amy

Full body muscle cramps

> When I yawn I get a muscle cramp in between my ribs, it feels like

> someone has stuck something in my side. I also stepped on a Hot

> Wheel the other day and got a cramp from my big toe all the way up to

> the back of my knee and of course there are the calf cramps that

> cause tears to well up in my eyes everytime I try to roll over when I

> sleep. The leg cramps last all night and then most of the next day.

> There is a muscle between my shoulder blades that spasms sometimes,

> it's not as bad as a cramp but just as annoying.

>

> When I went to see the doc before I was dx (11 years ago), I went in

> for calf cramps and to figure out why I was peeing red. After my dx

> I was told the cramps were a part of the IgAN but nobody could tell

> me why. I am sooo tired of the docs guessing on the cause and

> treatment. Can anyone offer me some advise other then muscle

> relaxers and pain killers. I live in a hot bath when I can and I

> sleep on a heated waterbed.

>

> I just took my last prednisone the other day, could the cramps be

> from that?

>

> BRANDY

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