Natural Remedies For Night Leg Cramps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2019
- Night leg cramps have got to be one of the most annoying ailments to have. I've heard many patient stories over the years about waking up in the middle of the night due to leg cramps. They don't just complain about the pain but more importantly, how theses interruptions affect their waking lives as well since they are unable to get the sleep they need.
[UPDATE] Dr. Lawrence Woods here! I want to express my sincere appreciation for your support and for finding value in my suggestions for natural approaches to address restless leg syndrome over the years.
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Integrating the Axial Ergonomic Seat Cushion into your daily routine might provide additional comfort that could positively impact your sleep and overall well-being. As always, I encourage you to combine this with the natural approaches and exercises discussed in the video for the best possible outcome.
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Can you please tell me more about electrolytes you were talking about??? Thank you
Mustard works wonders for me! This goes with your “crazy” pickle juice.
1. PLENTY OF FLUIDS
2. STRETCH YOUR LEGS
3. RIDE A BIKE
4. SLEEPING POSITION
5. SUPPORTIVE FOOTWEAR
6. WALK ON SAND
7. LEG MASSAGE
8. APPLY HEAT
9. PICKLE JUICE
Thank you for sharing!
I am 70 and have had leg cramps all my life, even as a child. I have had some relief from magnesium and from iodine, but never totally got rid of them, especially when eating any sugar. I have recently been taking glycine and have not had a cramp anywhere since, even when eating sweets. I have never gone over two days without a cramp, but it has been 3 weeks since I discovered glycine and no cramps.
Would you please share how much glycine do you take? TYIA.
I take about 1 tablespoon in warm water two to three times a day. I use the powdered glycine. It looks just like sugar and is sweet but no calories.
Never heard of ingesting glycerine. Where is it purchased? In health food stores?
I recently went to foot doctor, he suggested to sleep with my feet up higher than my heart to stop nighttime leg cramps and IT WORKS! So far it’s been a week & no cramps! But for a former side sleeper, it takes time to get use to sleeping in my back… still a small price to not be woken up by pain.
It's not glycerine, it's glycine. It's an amino acid and I buy the powder from amazon. It comes in a 2lb brown bag and is the Pure brand. It looks and tastes like sugar but has no calories.
Muscle cramps are really hard to figure out what causes or triggers them. Dehydration is a major factor for me. Plus I have seen a relationship to having sugary foods before bed. I usually don't have sugar/carbs but when having dinner out ending with cake and ice cream almost always triggers leg cramps that night. I take magnesium malate every morning and then will take a smaller dose of a different form of magnesium before bed if I think I might have a leg cramp. That has changed things for me. Thanks for the information.
Terrific presentation. Lots of energy. Thanks
!any thanks for your great medical advice AND your smiling demeanour. !!!! Best wishes. Warren
GREAT VIDEO. PROBABLY THE BEST ONE ON LEG CRAMPS, IMO
Thank you for your information, very Helpful, I will try your 9 steps😊 I feel better just knowing someone Cares🙋🏻💙
I loved your tips and really enjoyed your presentation 👍
You are a joy to watch feel better already.
Great information, and tips. Thank you
Thank you so much, great video. Very grateful to you
Thank you for sharing your experience
Fabulous definitely very helpful thanks a mill. Great personality by the way. You are very gifted. Patricia
Thank you very much! I suffer from leg/foot cramps and Charlie's horse. Your advice sounds very sound and logical. I will try these.
Great video, thanks for the advice.
Thanks for your important advice .
Amazing video with very important info. Thank you so much👍. I will try for sure.
Your explaination is good,clear.
Very very amazing tips thanks so much
Thank you.its very Informative.
Omg😳I just found you by searching and I absolutely love you! Your information is great but your smile and your spirit and energy is even greater! 👀🙏🏽❤️ today I’m going to try and just run a marathon of all your videos to get caught up and take notes as well! But your spirit glows I wish I was surrounded by people like u in my life 100% of the time! I’m also missing the ocean badly when u mentioned walk on the sand I miss Hawaii it became my home in 2001 but I’m not there now 😭manifesting it back though so soon when the time is right🙏🏽💫❤️🌴🌺🌈 keep doing these please 🙏🏽and Thank you 🌈🌴💫☀️
Thanks for your kind comment Marie! I hope you can make it back to Hawaii! - Lawrence
Agree about the smile and energy
Helpful advise, thanks .
I get you right.simple and clear explanations.
Very good video.
Thanks.for the info. You have a smile which is infectious.
Fun, clear and to the point. Great video, thanks for all the info.
Thank you for your advice and enjoyed your presentation.
Thank you love your explainations, thank you Doc it help alot.
Thanks for your excellent information
So grateful, thank you so much
Thank you Dr Woods! I was expecting the usual advice - drink more water, take magnesium etc. This advice is so helpful. Thanks again 🙏
I wish I knew this years ago!! Thank you doc🙏🙏👍⭐️⭐️
Merci beaucoup. Thanks for your advice.
Great information.Tq so much !
Very useful . Thanks
BIG THANKS.
GREATFUL ADVICES.
love the way u r smiling while explaining.... certainly gives positive vibes...✌️
Thank you for the information
Thank you very much. Very nice n useful video. We will follow your tips, also share with others. God bless.
Very helpful thank you
You were most helpful.🙏🏿
Thank you very informative..
Thank Doc good stuff. From South Africa. I need that.
As a teenager I sometimes would get alternating leg cramps at night. Next day in school, I would hardly be able to walk. My P-E teacher never really believed me. But those next day after effects were painful. My main method to fix my cramps was massaging and beating them out. That takes time, which is why I had so much pain the next day.
My preferred method these days is stretching. Grab your toes, pull towards you and straighten your leg. You force the cramps to stop.
Sometimes when my wife gets cramps at night, I hardly wake up, just grab her foot and straighten her leg. Takes seconds, and I’m back to sleep.
Condolences to you! P.E. teachers NEVER believe you about anything; especially if you complain of pain. You are right about pulling the toes towards you; works for me.
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Thank you for very important information.I always have leg cramp at night.thankyou again.
I'm a roofer, with drop foot, I'm always upright and on pitch...lumbar issues triggered the foot drop...double sciatica healed by core strength...I think the quinine tonic water has been the only help...also, a full bladder is a trigger, if I dont piss before bed and fall asleep I will wake up in cramp...I need some yoga, hamstrings are always tight since childhood.
Thanku very much for the video it was very helpful
Great tips...❤ thank you so much...hope it helps...yes drink hot water before sleeps helps...
I use dill pickle juice or green olive juice... when you are in the middle of a leg cramp the juice will relieve it almost immediately... I now put electrolyte drops in my water each time I fill my thermos...The electrolyte drops prevent the muscle cramps...
! tbsp of yellow mustard works within minutes!
V useful information thanks
Thanks a lot for sharing, very insightful! Greetings from a Swede in Beijing 🌆
Thank you,God bless you
Thanks so for the tips. Will try it.
You are great.
Thank you so much!
Thanks, very good.
GM Beautiful Day i love it th u for sharing GB u sir.i am surfering night leg cramps.
Thanks❤. Great. Information
You are adorable!!!! Love your presentation!!! I just found you, and am so glad I did! Thanks for the info ~ I'll be trying some of your tips! Have a great day!
Like. Others.. I like your smile, aside your info. Good luck doctor.
Thank you so much
Thanks for sharing very interesting
Thank you,I will try this.God blesa
Yep, that’s more my problem! I sit all day at work. I got a stand up desk which helps a lot! And a lot more leg exercises helps a lot!
Update. (You can read my original post below.) Neither pickle juice nor apple cider vinegar had an affect -- other than messing up my digestive system. Maybe vinegar helps people whose cramps have a different origin. My cramps happen at night. They're less likely to happen on days when I exercise. Stretching before bed helps. I suspect it has something to do with nerve impingement in my lower back.
Here's what I wrote previously:
Pickle juice! From what I've read, it's the vinegar in the pickle juice that makes it work. Why vinegar? The acetic acid in the vinegar has an immediate affect on the part of the brain that causes cramps -- cramps being neurological in origin. So I'm keeping a bottle of apple cider vinegar next to my bed. I'll post an update next time I get a cramp.
I sometimes get leg cramps at night and I do drink plenty of water but I’ll try something else to. Thank you!!
Yes pickle juice definitely works for leg cramps.
Also Tonic water with quinine in it works great
I by the six packs of Canada dry tonic water and keep one on night stand if I worked hard that day.
But I recently was working. I'm in construction so I'm outside in the sun sweating a lot and going up and down ladders all day. My legs get a big workout. So I noticed on the way home my hands stated cramping to the point I had to pull over. I couldn't steer the truck. So I got out and stretched enough to get home safely. I researched and I've tried them all.
So this one day when I was cramping in my arms and hands, I grabbed some apple cider vinegar drinks I recently purchased. It was cold out of fridge . Well I guzzled half of it and within minutes I felt great again and had no cramps that night. So I'm starting to drink that each day now .. 🙏🙏
Thank you for your Info
My pleasure!
ThankThanks Doctor
Pickle juice really helps me, but I’m going to try the electrolytes and bicycle riding. Thank you for this list of what you can do for leg cramps@. 😊
water is the master of all with a few drop of apple cider vinegar
Great info
Many Many thanks for this video. Could you guide us to control severe leg pain(from thigh to toe) or scitica.
My foot cramp nearly every 3 days please help.Than you for sharing this wonderful video
Great Tips
I started with horrendous hamstring cramping about 7 months ago and so far nothing has stopped them. They all began a few months after I began donating plasma so the initial thought was electrolyte deficiency and dehydration but increasing both hasn't helped. I stretch every day and I walk to/from work (12km) every day so it is not due to lack of motion. The only thing that brings relief is to use my TENS machine but it's not possible to sleep this way so I have to wait until it ends and this has caused a definitive reduction in the quality of my sleep. I've always been a side sleeper as laying on my back hurts my lumbar area quite a lot. TBH I have just gotten to the point where I've accepted that I'm never going to have a good night's sleep again and I'll spend the rest of my life living in pain.
Thank you.
Wow.. Really wow.. How I sleep really is really important.. How I sit.. But fortunately I don't spend very. Much Time on my but!! It's great to know that I am doing something right. I stretch all day.. I'm a builder!!!
This guy is pure common sense... I don't know about the pillow... Move the legs around when you sleep.. And go around without footwear whenever possible..bedroom to sidewalk if there is no sand or even better.. Grass..make a sandbox... Keep moving!!! He is great.
A sandbox will net u cat poop. Ha!
I think you are right I have this problem had an ultra sound yesterday for this and it didn’t show any blood clots I feel better about the results so I need to stop sitting too long and get out walking Thanks for your information
i walk a lot but i still get the cramp i think he is saying drink fluid yes lots of water help
Thanks very much !
I would not go to bed without pickle juice in my fridge. I have terrible leg cramps at night. I dtink about a quarter cup of pj and in about ten minutes the cramps begin to get better. It definitely works. Been doing it for years.
Thanks Blessings always
Same to you!
It looks like you enjoy life on this video. Good for you. : ) I have suffered with severe charlie horses for a long time. I have got to do something. Someone told me to stand up on it to stop it, but that is only a band aid not a cure. I try taking potassium once in a while, sometimes it seems to work, sometimes not. I am on spinage salads every other day now. I hope it works. I think I will go get pickle juice and electrolyte drinks next time I am at Walmart.
Thank u for sharing very interesting xx
Any one heard of using yellow mustard? I had a very bad cramp and was told take mustard. By gosh it worked instantly.
I had been having cramps in my legs and feet for years. I read every article and listened to so many videos to no avail.
My sister, who is a vegan, had been wanting me to try it for years but I was not interested on ANY level. I finally tried it for a few weeks so she would leave me alone and it was like a miracle for me. I pretty much immediately stopped having cramps.
I am not completely vegan(still eat a little dairy) but I have not put meat back into my diet, and the cramps have stayed away.
Do I want to eat meat, of course. Is it worth the cramps HELL NO!!! Pain will make you change, or lack there of it. Will I ever eat meet again? Most likely. Probably not any time soon and especially not in the US
Yes to pickle juice, eat a pickle or two a day, it helped us. Now we just have a top up and now drink a magnesium drink each night.
Thank you for your enthusiastic video and trying to help we sufferers of nocturnal cramps. I first saw this 2 weeks ago and took on board your recommendations. However, I'm not doing too well...in that time I've had cramp in one or both legs at the same time or in my feet too most nights. I haven't got an exercise bike but as have bilateral hip replacements (1 cemented, 1 not) I find bike riding can cause groin cramp. I'm at an absolute loss what to do next as have tried and do it every day, the stretches, eat certain foods stay off others, drink apple cider vinegar in my water and drink 12 ozs of that throughout the day as well as drink plenty of other water. I only have 1 cup of tea a day and occasionally a coffee a few times a week. I even bought that expensive Caleb Treaze ACV with ginger and garlic to no avail.. Heck that stuff is hard to take neat too, getting the top off the bottle when you're in excruciating pain is no mean feat! I have moved every 15 minutes as recommended by many...I drink tonic water before bed...I have a product with 14 essential oils in it that I put on before bed and during cramps...I tried 1 bar of soap...painkillers before bed, plus a banana, listening to sound frequencies and healing meditations and hypnosis on here (those really do help btw) but nothing really stops them or eases the severity. I'm seeing my GP in 4 days time...if this is due to my herniated discs and stenosis as well as scoliosis, is surgery my only answer? I am at my wits end as this is impacting my quality of life so much now. Driving, walking, standing to cook or emptying the dishwasher etc all aggravate it and my legs and feet are threatening to cramp constantly. Sorry to be a moaning Minnie but anything else you could suggest perhaps please? My GP isn't a functional doctor so I am not holding out much hope for a great outcome but he may be able to add some leverage to the waiting game for my neurosurgeon appointment. I'm not a suitable candidate for amitryptalline either due to having an auto immune condition which would be aggravated by it. I'm not an advocate for medications, would much rather find a natural method to heal. 🤞🙏 Maybe 3 bars of soap is next...😁
Sunny7 i am also suffering with leg cramp i use tonic water but it did not help so i put mental cristial in rubing alchole and apply it when i get the cramp . also drink magnisum 500g every day
@bebi ramsarran I've found a great deal of help in Magnesium oil spray...I put it on before bed and also again if I do get the cramp..I bought it on Amazon after reading many great reviews. Perhaps try that or Magnesium butter?
And don't know if you are Christian? But go to a church that does healing prayer..its amazing..Jesus still goals!
Heals!
try ropinirole...4mg up to 14mg
After a lifetime of severe cramping I was prescribed Clonazapam 2mg before bedtime along with gabapentin 300 mg. Both have helped decrease cramps from 3 -4 nights weekly of painful cramping to maybe once or twice a month. My cramps have caused me to black out from the pain so it can be very serious and cause lots of other problems. One of my blackouts caused 3 broken ribs.
I use to take Clonazepam before sleep that made me black out and full.
7:39 is the Philadelphia Eagles playing against the Dallas Cowboys in Irving Texas in September 2000,The field was around 130 degrees and the Eagles drank pickle juice in that game.The Eagles won that day also.
thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing the tips on leg cromp i am suffering for many years i will try to drink more water because i am person some day i dont drink not a glass of water i will drink tea or coffee not water thanks once again
I’ve found drinking tonic water stopped my leg cramps. You don’t need much, just a couple of sips. The quinine in the tonic water helps.
Thank u very very much i will do what advice uhave given.Allah bless u
Thanks
Last night was the worst cramp..was about to stock up on Magnesium G..and potassium..will include your tips also..I live by the beach..blessings.
Sleep with a bar or two of soap under a covering, helps TONS!!
Tablespoon of French's plain mustard with a glass of water is the fastest relief for me. I find a better diet helps, more greens, and less alcohol.
I heard. That
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Any idea what ingredient that contains that's improving things?
Good call. I don’t know why all the experts don’t know this... When one or both legs lock up at night and you're in that horrible excruciating panic, seconds count. Hobbling to the frig to retrieve the yellow mustard bottle may not be your best option, especially if you're on another floor. Keep the mustard bottle on or in your nightstand. Immediate, direct administration of mustard into your mouth via a squeeze bottle with a flip lid is your best bet. In your haste, don't bite the lid off in the dark; you might choke on it. With this procedure, you don't have to fool with utensils. Store the bottle upside down with the lid secured. When right side up, some liquid separates to the top and you have to squeeze past that. Pain relief is dose-dependent, but a mustard slam is self-limiting because you can feel the pain draining away. Wash down a big dose with water, as recommended by Fred N.here, (if you reach the dry-gag limit). Sounds counter-intuitive, but mustard does not have to be refrigerated. See ref. below. French's mustard has a recommended shelf life from manufacture of 18 months in plastic, 24 months glass. Not medical advice, here; just home-spun relief from old-time experience. Good luck.
www.purewow.com/food/does-mustard-need-to-be-refrigerated#:~:text=According%20to%20French's%2C%20%E2%80%9CThe%20product,your%20mustard%20at%20room%20temperature.
(following on from above) .....separates to the top and you have to squeeze past that. Pain relief is dose-dependent, but a mustard slam is self-limiting because you can feel the pain draining away. Wash down a big dose with water, as recommend by Fred, if you reach the dry-gag limit. Sounds counter-intuitive, but mustard does not have to be refrigerated. See ref. below. French's mustard has a recommended shelf life from manufacture of 18 months in plastic, 24 months glass. Not medical advice here, just home spun relief from old folks gone before us. Good luck.
www.purewow.com/food/does-mustard-need-to-be-refrigerated#:~:text=According%20to%20French's%2C%20%E2%80%9CThe%20product,your%20mustard%20at%20room%20temperature.
thanks for this remedy very informative i didn’t know i was on agony just the other day and let it goes away by itself very painful i used hot water bottle and it gradually went away, it does take your breath away. Thanks
Pickle juice works great for me. I use Bob's Pickle Potion # 9, myself. The trick with pickle juice is not to sip it; gulp it down as quickly as you can. It takes a few times to get used to it but eventually, you get the hang of it. I also keep a folding walker by my bed at night. When I start to cramp, I get up quickly, place my weight on my other leg, while supporting myself on the walker. I gently start swinging my cramped leg slowly for a minute or so and the cramp begins to release.
I rub Mine . I will try that. Thanks .
@Albert Meza ~ I have found powdered organic pickle juice online. I mention this because (for me) having pickle juice at my bedside for the event of needing it for leg cramps and it does not need to be refrigerated as it can be quickly dissolved in plain water and drank when needed. I wish you success in conquering the dreaded night cramps.
@@yardner1963 Could you please provide a link for the powdered pickle juice
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Thank you for your feeback!
your video was great since i suffer from terrible charlie horses but not continuously. thank you so much.
-Lourdes
Thanks much!!