leg cramps??

[lisa&alex]

i woke 2 times last night with minor cramps... if forgot how much i got these last time and how bloody painfull they were..

why do we get them?? and how can i stop them hurting ???

 

[NooNoo]

omg ive just started with these....made me cry last night...i found banging my foot on the floor got rid straight away

 

[SarahH]

Aww I had them so bad when I was preg - would only happen when I was trying to sleep

I used to keep a bottle of Tonic water next to the bed to drink it when I got craps - my doc told me there is something in tonic that helps. Tastes yukky but did help!

 

[moomoo192]

Eat bananas, its from lack of potassium.

I hate bananas but manage to force myself in pregnancy just to avoid these, it works too, stops me jumping out of bed in the middle of the night in agony

 

[happy-chick]

Isnt cramp due to dehydration?

 

[lisa&alex]

lol.. i dunno.. i thought (when i was in school and quite fit teachers said cramp was a build up of lactic acid in your muscles from no oxygen getting to them..she said its from a lack of salt?)

ok.. so lots of water bananas and increase my salt lol...tonic water?? hmmm i know there used to be quinene in tonic water but i think they stopped that years ago..