How come I get painful muscle cramps when I'm sleeping? Ones that rudely wake me up!?
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I get leg cramps once in a while while sleeping (talk about a rude awakening). I know I'm not deficient in any vitamins, minerals or protein. Some of us just have weird bodies. I can often feel my muscles "gearing" up for cramps (mucles will twitch or just feel like something's going on) beforehand and then I drink quinine (actually tonic water which has quinine in it). I also cannot have the bedding I sleep under (blankets, top sheet) tucked under the mattress--my feet have to not be confined (so my foot isn't always forced into a pointing position), if I feel my legs or feet going into a cramp, I immediately jump out of bed and land hard on the leg/foot that is acting up which breaks the cramp. There are also over the counter tablets you can get that contain quinine. Make sure you are getting your daily requirement of vitamins, minerals, protein so you can rule those out though.
In the legs, right? Lack of B vitamins B1 or B3.
Maybe you a lacking in certain vitamins and minerals as a result of working out or just the hot weather. Try drinking gatorade or if that doesn't work, try the electrolyte drinks they give babies when they have diarrea.
Start eating bananas and potatoes. They have potassium and you may have a deficiency and these will help. I get them when I'm playing a lot of sports.
happens to me, My doc said it is from low Iron.
I've heard that for some people if they exercise a lot then they get a gas build-up in the leg so massaging that out helps.
I used to get painful muscle cramps in my legs but especially in the arch of my feet when I was growing up. For me, if I drank milk the pains would stop. Everybody is different though. Hope it works for you.
If it's in the arms, then one possibiltiy is you sleep on your arms. That always hurts in the morning. To sleep on one side or the other, with out getting that pain, is to put the arm infront of you, and litterally sleep on the side.
Try a Yahoo search for cramps + causes + "natural remedies".
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