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So for a few months now I have been suffering from debilitating leg cramps. Electic shock like stabbing. Feet cramps the last for hours and hours. I got an iron infusion and that didn't help like it has in the past. I was low on Vitamin D and Zinc so started taking doses. Nothing was working. It isn't hydration issues or potassium. Nothing colon/non-colon related at all! Just goes to show, always get opinions.

Neuromusclar center at Jefferson diagnosed me with overgrowth of bones in the upper back/neck that pinch the spinal chord. Seems to cause all the same symptoms.
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The only treatments I know of for leg cramps are pickel juice, bananas, tomatoes, boiled potatoes, and a bar of black soap (I think that it is carbolic soap) put under the covers in your bed at night by your feet...yes, it works!)Raising your legs up on a pillow can help but not for everyone.
Hope that you find a solution.
Sharon
This doesn't cure the problem but, for me, it provides almost instant relief from leg, feet, hand cramps. I keep a bottle of diet tonic water with quinine right by my bed and in my car. Even if the carbonation is gone, a swig or two/three of this relieves the cramps within a couple of minutes. I can live with getting these cramps as long as I know of a way to relieve them. Cecile
I have no idea if it would help at all but I take medication for restless leg syndrome that is actually anti-seizure, something totally unrelated called Carbidopa/Levodopa 25-100MG. Sometimes I have to take it late in the afternoons as well, my doctor has written the prescription to include the quantity to enable me to take it then. I don't and never have had seizures. Just an idea for something that might being you interim relief until you can get a permanent solution. I have problems with the top two vertebrae, Atlas, inside the base of my head and get them adjusted by an Atlas Chiropractor every 3-4 weeks.

My neurologist also has prescribed Gabapentin for pins and needles feelings I had in my feet and ankles and it also helped the zaps that I ran down the calves in my legs sometimes. I have neuropathy, numbness in both of my feet and it doesn't help with that Frowner

I have fibromyalgia that is in the mix here everywhere so I am not suggesting that you have any of the problems that I have. I'm suggesting that the medications that I'm taking for issues relating to leg pains, cramping, pins & needles and zapping feelings might help you as they are not specific for my condition rather are for other medical problems but just happen to help my problems as well.

I hate the cocktail of medications I take but I also like to be able to sleep and walk.

One last thought. Vitamin D fights inflammation and my nutritionist said to just be in the normal range of 40 isn't optimal. My Internist put me on a round of mega doses a few years ago of 100,000 for a couple of times etc. I am now taking 5,000 to 10,000 IU daily along with my first dose of Super Omega-3 in the mornings. It is important to take D at a different time of day than your multiple and other supplemental vitamins. The last reading my level was up to 62 and I'm shooting for over 80. Dr. Oz recommends everyone take 1,000 IU a day. I'm in GERD medications which is another reason why I need to take it and B12.

I hope something in here helps. I'd just ask your doctor for medication to treat the symptoms at this point. When we can't treat the cause this is all we can do.......the story of my life it seems.
I am on Gabepentin now and honestly don't think it does anything. My hands are completely numb right now and cramp if I hold anything, like a blow dryer for too long. I worked out and this is my aftermath. Sucks! I just want to lose 20 pounds, gained so much with this muscle issue.

I have flexirol for bad stuff but it just puts me to sleep, doesn't stop the cramps. The rehabilitation guy won't or can't give out any meds until I see neurology and I am waiting for an appointment with this guy at Jefferson. Everything is wait wait wait.

My right leg is in a spasm, been stuck with a heating pad wrapped around it. That is from walking up the hill where I live. Always something new!
thanks Smiler
vanessavy maybe a larger dose would help you. My current Gabapentin dose is 300MG 3 times a day for 900MG per day. I started out on a smaller dose and my Neurologist is going to increase it on my next visit. I have fibromyagia too and it's now considered a neurological problem as well as autoimmune. Gabapentin is used for fibro pain and I think the dosing goes at least to 2700MG per day. It is beneficial to many with fibromyalgia pain so I am hopeful.

I'm sorry about the pain that is coming and going in your arm and you probably have no idea what is causing that. I'd be scared too. I went to countless doctors before I was finally sent to the Neurologist about my feet and by then was told the neurological damage is irreversible. A few months before the latest podiatrist I'd been to had concluded it was fibromyalgia pain, after he'd done neurological testing! (The rheumy said it wasn't fibro before I went to the podiatrist.) I can imagine you might be getting the same kind of run around. Don't give up.
He isn't treating my peripheral neuropathy with it, just the pins and needles/tingling feelings I had that accompanied the numbness. The neuropathy is permanent, isn't that great? Frowner Therefore the increase in the medication might help the fibro pain that may be nerve related. I am not taking Flagyl because it can cause neuropathy, even though it didn't cause my current condition. I can't take Cipro because it caused c.diff once so I take augmentin when I need to. I still wonder if something like I'm taking for my RLS might help your leg cramping. Good Luck Smiler

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