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stickywicket
stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
edited 26. Oct 2011, 18:29 in Living with Arthritis archive
No answer to that, delboy. If I did have I'd have stopped Mr SW kicking me in bed years ago.
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  • madwestie
    madwestie Member Posts: 383
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    delboy i so totally agree with you.
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ooh painful,

    Are you jumping and limping round the room? my OH does when he gets it. I am sympathetic ,but it does make me smile to see the dance :oops: :lol:

    juliepf x
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh, my poor del, how very miserable. Perhaps an increase in your salt/potassium/magnesium levels might help matters. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Stand with foot on cold floor, however painful that may be - works every time.

    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • roses1
    roses1 Member Posts: 1,850
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    poke yourself in the eye :lol: you will forget the cramp :lol:

    sorry, it is nasty, can you get to rub it ? dont think anything works, doesn't for me anyway, just have to wait for it to pass :roll:

    Rose x
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    the magnesium thing has worked for me. Was getting cramp every night for ages, docs put me on quinine but it's not the nicest thing to be on long term so now I just take a magnesium t tablet. Works great.
    Hope you find something to stop it Rkid
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  • speedalong
    speedalong Member Posts: 3,315
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Stamp on THAT ant!!! Might cure your cramp ...!!!

    Speedy
    I have had OA since mid twenties. It affects my hips and knees. I had a THR on the left aged 30 and now have a resurface-replacement on the right - done May 2010.
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Dell ..Tonys right...the quinine really does work...my brother took it for months....but I like Elnas cure standing on a cold floor.... :eek: :grin:
    Love
    Barbara
  • liesa
    liesa Member Posts: 821
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    when we were on holiday in september in florida i wooke up at 6am one morning almost screaming in pain with cramp in the calf this was the leg thats a TKR it hurt for such a long time after, never had this before... but i can tell you it was bl**dy scary! (lost my mum through DVT so was scared) had been there for a week, when we came home the next day i had biggggg pain in the same calf, even took a trip to the hospital and had scans to make sure it wasnt a DVT... cramps pretty evil...
    love and hugs
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  • bubbadog
    bubbadog Member Posts: 5,544
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Keep wiggling those toes when you get foot cramp! It is a bitch when you get it! Feel for you delboy! :cry: Amanda.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Increasing your sodium intake can help too - do you use salt at all in your diet? If you already do then don't increase but if you don't it may be worth considering for a couple of days. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • stlucia
    stlucia Member Posts: 392
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Ah pain!! Has it gone yet?!
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    how's it been today? Before I started on the quinine and then the magnesium, without fail every morning, usually very early hours I would wake in agony with it.. It's horrid eh? What makes it worse is that you instantly fek the need to jump out of bed very quickly, something that really isn't a great idea for many of us on here but its like an automatic thing. So you end up hurting yourself too... Amount of times my knees have felt like they were gonna snap because I moved way too quickly...
    Thankfully with the magnesium I've not had it for many many months. Remarkable really. Just the cheap supplement ones from test-co or moggisons etc.

    Best of luck Rkid
    e050.gifMe-Tony
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    Cleo - 1996 to 2011. RIP

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