Mike:
I have had a similar problem only in my calf and thigh muscles mostly at
night, but any hour of the day is possible. My physician hasn't
diagnosed the cause yet, but he has said drinking quinine water
occasionally will help (most of the time you'll find it on the grocery
store mixer shelves as "tonic water with quinine". Also a recent column
by a couple physicians in a local newspaper suggested occasionally
eating a teaspoon of mustard (really) can help alleviate muscle cramps.
These two docs that wrote the newspaper column suggested actually
keeping some of those mustard packets that you get with a hamburger or
hotdog, handy.
Friday night while at Ham Com in Arlington TX I woke up about midnight
with severe leg cramps that about drove me crazy. At home I keep one of
those large handle mount vibrators that I massage my calf muscles with
when this happens at home, but I didn't have it with me Saturday. First
thing Saturday I went out from the hotel and found a grocery that
carried tonic/quinine water. I downed a liter of it and haven't had a
leg cramp since.
At home we keep a couple 2 liters of it and if I feel a cramp coming on
I quickly go drink a large glass of it and walk to massage the calf
muscles and the combination seems to alleviate the cramp.
As an aside in my much younger days I played in a slow pitch softball
league and took calcium supplements to alleviate muscle pulls, plus I'd
walk about a mile in warm-up about an hour before a game.
Tom, WW5L
Mike Wetzel wrote:
>While working on top a tower yesterday at 140, in 90 degree, sunny, breezy
>weather, I developed cramps in both arm biceps and decided I needed to come
>down fairly quickly. Besides the ideas of eating bananas (potassium) and
>drinking water are there any other suggestions as a way to avoid them?
>
>Mike W9RE
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