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For the last few years, I’d experienced occasional nightly foot and leg cramps, but in the last few months they had escalated in both frequency and intensity to the point that I was often having to get up and walk around in the middle of the night to relieve them.
I did some research online and found conflicting advice as to how to alleviate these painful muscle cramps, but most indicated that some sort of nutritional deficiency was the cause, so I contacted my friend Julie James, a master herbalist and repository of nutritional wisdom. She suggested that lack of magnesium was the most likely culprit and recommended Ionic Fizz Magnesium Plus. She said that this form of magnesium is the most easily absorbed and easy to digest.
She was right. The very first night I tried this I had no leg cramps and have not experienced any since. The Ionic Fizz powder is dissolved in a small glass of water, and the flavor (raspberry lemonade, sugar free) is inoffensive. I usually take a dose in the early evening.
If you’ve been experiencing nightly foot and/or leg cramps, you might want to give this a try.
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I am going right out to find this! I have suffered severe restless leg syndrome for years and it can bring me to tears! I take a prescription drug for it now, but it’s not a total cure..hope I can find it! Thanks for the tip!
Lisette M – That’s great! I’d been taking calcium but the magnesium was the missing piece.
Deb – hope it helps!
Ursula – water didn’t work for me. The magnesium did. If water alone works for you, great!
Excellent! I love this kind of success story. R. x
I take daily supplements of calcium & magnesium to help with palpitations and I get the side benefit of no cramps.
A nightly banana will also do the trick. Seriously. It’s a magnesium powerhouse.
Rosina – thanks, me too!
Anonymous – I’d tried bananas too, no luck. This is the only thing that’s worked for me.
Currently doing research on the leg cramps, you might find some useful tips.
Regards,
Maggie
I’m gping to share this information with my BFF she suffere leg cramps at night too…glad that you have some relief….maybe you’ll sleep better now too.
What my husband does is to drink just glass of water before he goes to sleep. When he forgets, he knows it… so ladies try just the WATER first… 🙂
I’ve had foot and leg cramps all my life and suffered greatly. I do take magnesium and other supplements. But, about ten years ago, I had to leave a water aerobics class because of foot cramps. Another lady from the class followed me into the locker room & gave me a quinine pill. It was a miracle! Since then, I keep diet tonic water on hand at all times, and just a half-glass does the trick. What I’ve learned over the years, is that no one remedy works for everyone.
Lisette, have you been checked for low thyroid? My palpitations stopped when I started on thyroid hormone.
Nutritional yeast (sometimes aka brewer’s yeast) also addresses that problem. It’s got all the B vitamins and loads of those minerals (like magnesium) that are sometimes hard to get elsewhere, and is much easier for me to digest than vitamin/mineral pills. I cannot recommend the flavor, however…as with wheatgrass juice, it’s an acquired taste.
This sounds crazy, but here’s the remedy that works for my husband: a bar of soap in the bed. We put a fresh bar of soap under the bottom sheet near the foot of the bed every 6 weeks or so. We can tell we need to put in a fresh one when he wakes up with a leg cramp. Otherwise, no cramps!
Here’s something interesting…( and perhaps too much information but what the heck) after being plagued with menopausal incontinence for the past couple of years I finally found that 2 100 mcg.s of magnesium stopped it cold! I was getting desperate but didn’t want to take hormones, and this has completely solved my problems.Huzzah!