I have no ideas but i grt alot of cramp in my calf and foot. Hugs

Has the doctor prescribed you a muscle relaxer? If not, talk to your doctor. If you are taking one, talk to him also. It might need to be changed.

I think taking a magnesium supplement can be helpful with muscle cramps. Double check with your doctor first in case it interacts with any meds you are on. I find that it also has a nice calming effect as well. Hope you feel better soon!

Taking a hot bath can help relax the muscles and tendons that draw up when at rest. Also putting a pillow under your knees when laying on your back or between them when on your side can help. I find that there are times when nothing helps and those are the times I read or watch a movie to get my mind off of it. I would definitely talk to your doctor.

Autumn, I agree that the pillow can help. I use one every night (mostly because without it my knee pain flares up terribly for days to weeks) I call it my "knee pillow" haha.

These are great suggestions. Thanks, friends.

Dynastinae, my knee pain is awful too, I just forgot to mention it. Typical, lol.

Wolfgang, be sure to get yourself a good knee pillow XD I use one that is fairly flat and soft because sometimes I only need a little support but I can always fold it in half if I need some more cushioning :) Take care!

I also get muscle cramps in my legs. They usually happen in my calves and feet. Mine however
happen mainly while I'm sleeping. They wake me up and the only thing I can do is stand up ASAP,
put my weight on my feet, stretch and bounce around and then keep walking to get them to subside. ( I know all that may sound strange) . I also take magnesium before sleep which
definitely helps I'm someone who also has Lyme and that can effect your muscles etc. So I
never know what is causing what. I've had this for some 20 years. Next week I will see a heart
doctor so it may be related to my circulation. Good luck with yours. I'm sure the knee pillow will
help.

Due to dehydration problems, I learned when your body minerals are out of balance this can lead to leg cramps and pain...so now I drink pedialite when ever I become ill to replace the electrolytes lost. Hope this helps you, it as helped me....only occasionally do I have cramps now. Best, ml

I also use Flexural for the cramps in calf and feet. Drinking electrolyte solution does help if I drink it regularly.

I know this is an old post but just saw it and wanted to share my experience with flexiril in case it helps anyone. A dr prescribed to me over 13 years ago after my lower back went out for umpteenth time. I changed Drs several times since then it everyone kept re prescribing it without any question...I was taking it routinely twice a day with Gabapentin. When I was having more trouble sleeping, a doc even told me to just take an extra one at bedtime for sleep. Over the years I began having serious cognitive impairment where I would get lost in my own neighborhood coming home, had trouble in social settings as I could no longer track people's conversations, and had joined a board games group and couldn't keep up, folks were having to walk me through every move and decision....embaracing so I stopped socializing. I finally got relentless looking up side effects of all my meds id been on for years, and low and behold the only one where REAL people, not webmd, helped me make sense of things was folks who had cognitive impairment from flexiril. I looked up on the medical sites, and consistently they said it should never be prescribed for long term use, two years max, by then I'd been on it over 10 yrs! I had to gradually take myself off if it...didn't even bother talking to a dr about it because I didn't want to hear them poopoo it. Within a month I could feel much of my brain function coming back. Even though I wound up in a couple of mo the having my back spasm out and leave me nonfunctional for 4 days, I've only used it since when I'm desparate to get to sleep and include it in my cocktail of meds for sleep, and only a quarter of what I was taking. I decided I'd rather have my brain back. I know we are all different in responses to meds, but I just wanted to share this very clear cut experience as a warning to others to not assume the dr or even the pharmacist is monitoring how long weve been taking something, or checking the recommended limits. Fortunately a 5 mg of Valium has helped me across the board with so many things since I started taking it in my early 20s...so guess I'm not addiction prone to it at least, I I still take far less than the docs keep suggesting. I'll take an extra Valium over flexiril any day. My brain can still get foggy, and my short term memory is pretty low..but at least I can have intelligent conversations and play games with a group of people without being ashamed and left out.

It's a sobering tale Megan54 and just goes to show medication should always be a 'last resort' and 'short term as possible' measure, so very hard when you have chronic pain and dysfunction. I'm so glad you found a way through it and got your mind back enough to function more. I had to come off everything last year and had the same clearing-of-the-mind experience, and a lowering in overall pain. It's not the miracle cure, I'm still riddled with problems and to be honest wish I could have some meds, but it's nice having a layer of side effects removed.

(and leg cramps...I get them sometimes, from muscle knots / trigger points...when I calm them down with trigger point massage the cramp settles down. it's quite remarkable.)