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[quote=Anonymous]I had leg cramps during perimenopause.  Two or three nights a week, I'd wake up with a cramp in one calf, that I'd need to walk off before I could go back to sleep.   After a bad one my calf would feel both tight and bruised the next day.

Then I started stretching on the stairs every day, taking magnesium, and being more careful to hydrate.  Plus my period stopped for good, and the leg cramps went back to about once a month for at least a year.

The past few weeks, I've had leg cramps almost every time I wake up -- which is usually 2 - 4 times a night.  They impact both legs, and sometimes they lead to ankle cramps and food cramps.  It is super annoying.  I had run out of magnesium and bought a different brand, so i thought maybe it was that, but switching back didn't help.  increasing the dose didn't either.

I also have what I think is meralgia paresthetica, on one side, and I've had some intermittent swelling on one ankle.  Plus my knees are creaky. So, basically from the hips down I am a disaster zone.

Any suggestions on how to solve this problem? Is there some kind of doctor that would help?  Is this a PT thing where I need to learn to stretch better?  A different nutritional supplement?[/quote]

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