inuslin and charlie horses

liz32 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 01:41 PM

anybody have really bad charlie horses? I don't mean your run of the mill in your calf charlie horse I mean all the way up your leg charlie horse so bad you can't move and it takes your breath away !!!! I think they are coming from the insulin and I just want toknow if any of you have the same problem or is it just me?

Liz

pdxdennisj · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 02:28 PM

I have been getting them for the last 15 years or so - long before insulin. I take 750 mg of Magnesium and 1000 mg of calcium before bed and that keeps them in check except for about once a year. The other common advice to to drink a glass of tonic water (for the quinine content) before bed.

xMenace · #3 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 03:52 PM

Make sure you are generally well hydrated too. The air gets pretty dry this time of year, especially if you have a wood stove or something similar running.

iDream · #4 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 04:36 PM

i get the worstttt omggggg im laying there and its sooooooooo bad i can't even move when i get it, it hurts sooo bad....i sit there trying to stretch my leg....soo bad

liz32 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 05:36 PM

I've been dealing with inflamation....high amounts of it which appear to be interfearing with the absorption of my insulin...so for the last little while I've laid off the insulin and no charlie horse....today I needed to get my numbers down so I took my insulin and all of a sudden wicked charlie horse....scared my poor kids cuase I was yelling rather loudley for hubby. It seems (just an observation) that when I use the insulin I get the charlie horses. I don't know....all I do know is that it hurts like you wouldn't believe. A c-section didn't hurt as bad.
Liz

MJB · #6 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 07:23 PM

I occasionally get them and yes, the pain is almost unbearable.

I don't use insulin however.

It always occurs during sleep and the quickest way for it to stop is to get out of bed and walk around.

xMenace · #7 (**permalink**) 12-09-2007, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by liz32

I've been dealing with inflamation....high amounts of it which appear to be interfearing with the absorption of my insulin...so for the last little while I've laid off the insulin and no charlie horse....today I needed to get my numbers down so I took my insulin and all of a sudden wicked charlie horse....scared my poor kids cuase I was yelling rather loudley for hubby. It seems (just an observation) that when I use the insulin I get the charlie horses. I don't know....all I do know is that it hurts like you wouldn't believe. A c-section didn't hurt as bad.
Liz

Perhaps you are tensing up for your injection.

liz32 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by xMenace

Perhaps you are tensing up for your injection.

no it's hours later and not always at night....last one was on the flush....rather embarrassing to be yelling at the top of your lungs with your pants at your ankles!

I just find it funny that while off levemir = no charlie horses. Take it and the charlie horses are back as bad as ever.
Liz

dgrilli · #9 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by pdxdennisj

I have been getting them for the last 15 years or so - long before insulin. I take 750 mg of Magnesium and 1000 mg of calcium before bed and that keeps them in check except for about once a year. The other common advice to to drink a glass of tonic water (for the quinine content) before bed.

Jigsaw SRT Magnesium I don't get them anymore.

Good call