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[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Cal Mag is what my doctor recommended for cramps. Be sure you are drinking enough water as well. It took a great deal of restraint to not post a humorous attempt on this topic.

Same here, the latter part.

[rapmarks Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close rapmarks]

what is cal mag? also, do you just buy the quinine at the drug store over the counter?

[mav Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mav]

You can buy tonic water and it has quinine in it. It's sold in the mixer /soda dept of the grocery store, usually near ginger ale and mixers . A lady on a flight to the UK had told me her Dr. recommended it. I usually get a can of it on the plane when I am on a long haul flight and it seems to help with leg cramps for me.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I keep potassium tablets on my nightstand and I take one if I get leg cramps during the night. It usually takes the cramps away like magic...although when I told my doctor that it worked, he said, "It does?" I said, "Shouldn't it?" And he said, "Well, it doesn't usually work like that, but if it works for you, great!"

After that I thought it must be some sort of mind trick, that I had thought potassium would work so it did, and that it would stop working for me because my doctor had burst my bubble. But it still works, and it's been a couple of years since he said that, so I don't think it's psychological.

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I have potassium tablets, i will take one right now.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Cal Mag was short for Calcium and Magnesium. I currently use chelated Calcium, Magnesium and Zinc whenever I work or exercise a lot during the day. Back when I played a lot of basketball, I took Potassium pills and they seemed to work then but they do not now. I've also heard that seltzer, particularly with quinine helps and I often have a seltzer before bedtime.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I got a lot of leg cramps when I was pregnant. My doctor then said to eat two bananas per day to help ease them.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Cal Mag was short for Calcium and Magnesium. I currently use chelated Calcium, Magnesium and Zinc whenever I work or exercise a lot during the day. Back when I played a lot of basketball, I took Potassium pills and they seemed to work then but they do not now. I've also heard that seltzer, particularly with quinine helps and I often have a seltzer before bedtime.

The product I recommended is calcium magnesium in an easily absorbed preparation.
As stated above Tonic Is made with quinine and also helps cramps.
Your MD will have done a complete metabolic panel ( blood work) to see if you have any deficits.

Let us know jow u make out. As you see, you are not alone with this problem!

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endocrinologist says it has no relationship to my thyroid

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

One caution on Magnesium, tho it is good to get enough, excessive intake can cause the runs.