Author Topic: Cramps (Read 8567 times)

95Road King · « **on:** December 03, 2008, 01:55:44 PM »

Anyone ever hear of putting a couple bars of Ivory soap in your bed to eliminate cramp's?? I get bad leg cramp's and a guy told me about this.
Havn't tried it yet. Any other cramp cures out there??

Totenkopf · « **Reply #1 on:** December 05, 2008, 05:50:59 AM »

Bannanas, potasium for leg cramps. Drink more fluids if any other muscle besides calf.

jeclif · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2008, 06:32:12 AM »

gin and tonic or just tonic

maddogg · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2008, 11:38:51 AM »

Soap worked for me and a couple of my friends.

95Road King · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2008, 02:18:04 PM »

Havn't tried the soap yet but I've been drinking the heck out of diet Tonic Water from Wal-Mart!!. No Gin tho.

bilmac · « **Reply #5 on:** December 08, 2008, 02:50:10 AM »

Banannas

CannonKrazy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 08, 2008, 03:09:44 PM »

Quote from: 95Road King on December 03, 2008, 01:55:44 PM

Anyone ever hear of putting a couple bars of Ivory soap in your bed to eliminate cramp's??

I haven't heard of putting it in the bed. I did have to wash my mouth out with soap once for cussing while I was having cramps.

Graybeard · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2008, 03:00:48 AM »

I think you are kidding yourself if you believe there was any causal effect between soap in your bed and cramps going away. Leg cramps or foot cramps are most often a sign of low potassium or low body fluid levels and taking potassium or drinking more water is the usual cure. Bananas are high in potassium.

slim rem 7 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2008, 01:31:20 PM »

other than just hard work an sweating all day ,the worst cause ive found for cramps was cabonated sodas of any kind.. they just strip the pot an calc. out of yo like crazy.

Rustyinfla · « **Reply #9 on:** December 15, 2008, 01:02:59 PM »

Bananas, orange juice or tomatoes/ tomatoes juice all have potassium. Use what's most convenient.

Cornbelt · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2008, 07:14:31 PM »

Wife gets foot cramps a lot. They seem to plague her mostly at night, but if she gets up and eats a spoonfull of mustard, they stop. 'course she likes mustard. I'd prefer the cramps.

bilmac · « **Reply #11 on:** December 18, 2008, 09:08:43 AM »

Maybe eating plain mustard is so bad you forget you have cramps.

huntswithdogs · « **Reply #12 on:** December 20, 2008, 10:12:10 AM »

GatorAid and bananas are what works for me. I mow a lot of yards during the warmer months. Eating a banana or 2, if I'm just drinking water is okay. Sucking down the GatorAid works best.

darian barr · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2009, 07:21:18 PM »

drink dill pickle juice. it usually works

bilmac · « **Reply #14 on:** January 03, 2009, 10:49:00 AM »

Maybe drinking dill pickle juice is so bad you forget you have cramps

95Road King · « **Reply #15 on:** January 10, 2009, 11:12:39 AM »

Been taking 1-2 Potasium pills a day. Seem's to be working quite well!!! Just came in from running the snow blower. No problems!! We got 6 inches today!!

45-70.gov · « **Reply #16 on:** January 10, 2009, 04:11:40 PM »

try salt under your tongue

if you BELEIVE the soap will work......it will......don't listen to greybeard

Badnews Bob · « **Reply #17 on:** January 16, 2009, 07:59:09 AM »

Vineger works if you can stand to drink it,(dill pickle juice) Roman soldiers carried it in canteens on long marches.

epanzella · « **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2009, 01:26:38 PM »

I got horrendous thigh cramps for years which was triggered by working off a ladder or too many stairs in a day. I was a contractor so avoiding ladders was avoiding a paycheck. My doctor told me to take 100 mg potasium and 500 mg magnesium after supper. After a week the cramps were gone and haven't returned.

rex6666 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 16, 2009, 06:19:14 AM »

YEA the potasium pills are the best, take them every night, don't have to
worry about Bananas and such.
Are you sure that pickle juice is what Roman soldiers carried in those canteens?

wgr · « **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2009, 01:34:35 PM »

Quote from: rex6666 link=topic=158004.msg 1098772794#msg 1098772794 date=1237220354

YEA the potassium pills are the best, take them every night, don't have to
worry about Bananas and such.
Are you sure that pickle juice is what Roman soldiers carried in those canteens?

was almost pickle juice it was hard cider

EPD1102 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:20:05 AM »

If you're on a low-salt diet, it can also cause cramps due to a lack of iodine that we usually get from iodized salt. I had bad leg cramps in boot camp and one of the D.I.s told me to put some extra salt on my food and they went away.

Spanky · « **Reply #22 on:** March 24, 2009, 02:21:15 AM »

Eat a couple Tums with calcium.
The cramps will go away within a few minutes.

Dill pickle juice works good for acid indigestion and hangover.

Spanky

jgalar · « **Reply #23 on:** March 24, 2009, 03:56:53 AM »

When you sweat during the day you excrete salt. To stabilize body chemistry your body will take salt from muscle. The largest muscles are in the legs and therefore leg cramping is common. You can either ingest salt or as stated Potassium to stabilize the body chemistry and prevent leg cramping.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #24 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:32:35 AM »

old saying - man who go to sleep on hot humid night with bar of soap wake up in a lather !

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #25 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:53:38 AM »

Quote

try salt under your tongue

Maybe salt under your tongue is so bad it makes you forget you have cramps

Sorry bilmac, I beat you this time. I did enjoy your other two observations though

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #26 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:57:59 AM »

Quote from: SHOOTALL on March 24, 2009, 04:32:35 AM

old saying - man who go to sleep on hot humid night with bar of soap wake up in a lather !

I just thought that the soap would make one fart bubbles in the morning

Potassium is my final answer.

sk330lc · « **Reply #27 on:** April 01, 2009, 02:22:14 PM »

I know a Doctor (a very old Doctor) that told me to do so and it worked for me. He told me to Grate it under the sheets. He could not explain why it works. It did For me! so maybe I'm crazy

When I get cramps i also rub soap on my leg and it almost always goes Right away. Why it works, who knows but it does.

petemi · « **Reply #28 on:** April 02, 2009, 03:05:07 AM »

I had a colonoscopy a couple of weeks ago and picked up a couple of quarts of Gatorade to rehydrate.......whammo....end of leg and hand cramps. I find a half quart or so a day keeps them away. It works better than the quinine sulfate and bannanas I took before the FDA got it off the market.

Pete

Yankee1 · « **Reply #29 on:** April 05, 2009, 10:20:45 AM »

When I have a problem with low blood sugar I get severe leg cramps.
To cure the problem I take a couple of pieces of hard candy like "Werthers" butterscotch and the cramps are gone within 10 minutes.
Works for me.
Yankee1