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craaaaaaaaaaamp!!

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sofaraway said:
I was getting cramp really bad at night around a year ago, my Dr prescribed a course on quinnine and it sorted it out. I had a crampy feeling and painful leg last night, which might have been related to the fact I was up to 21 last night.

I am going to podiatory next week, i have been once before and was discharged because there was nothing they could do for me, have been re-refered as have blisters on my feet.
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I take quinine as well and havent had any bad cramps since.. 🙂
 
can you get that on prescription!? Does it just take away the cramp, it doesn't actually help bad circulation i gather? Thanks or your advice, as always everyone x
 
hellbell84 said:
cramp in your rectum!?!?

really!?!? :confused:

i got a date with my DSN on 20th April but they have never asked to look at my feet, they ask how my stools are (to which i reply "yeah just fine thanks")

will let u know what she says, but omg, it is blooming painful, even though i had the cramp last night, i can still feel where it was...

xxx
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That reminds me, when i was diagnosed they asked if my stools flushed away easily lol, forgot about that :D I just said yes........but thinking about it sometimes they do float, sorry about that but they do 🙄 do you think it is the sugar :D

Anyway cramp, bloody awful, used to get a lot at diagnosis, nightime left thigh, soooo bad i would cry out loud, my partner wondered what on earth was happening, so bad i could not move or turn over in bed. Oh the joy, not happened for ages, thank goodness.
 
tracey w said:
That reminds me, when i was diagnosed they asked if my stools flushed away easily lol, forgot about that :D I just said yes........but thinking about it sometimes they do float, sorry about that but they do 🙄 do you think it is the sugar :D

Anyway cramp, bloody awful, used to get a lot at diagnosis, nightime left thigh, soooo bad i would cry out loud, my partner wondered what on earth was happening, so bad i could not move or turn over in bed. Oh the joy, not happened for ages, thank goodness.
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"Floating stools are seen in a variety of different situations. Most are diet-related, or caused by episodes of diarrhea that accompany a gastrointestinal infection. A change in diet can lead to an increase in the amount of gas produced by the bacteria found in the (healthy) gastrointestinal tract.

Similarly, acute gastrointestinal (GI) infections can result in increased gas in the intestines, due to rapid movement of food through the GI tract. One wrong idea is that floating stools are caused by an increase in the fat content of the stool. In fact, it is increased gas in the stool that make it less dense and allow it to float.

Another cause of floating stools is malabsorption, in which the body can't properly digest and absorb fat and other nutrients from the GI tract. More than 2 weeks of diarrhea with floating stools is often seen in people suffering from malabsorption.

Increased levels of nutrients in the stool (which have not been absorbed by the GI tract) are supplied to the normal bacteria that live in the gut. These bacteria in turn produce more gas. This results in more gas-rich stools that float."
 
i had cramp in my right foot last night- the 3 right toes! i hate cramp but if it happens it tends tobe when ive just stretched that muscle out. ?hamstrings?- backs of my legs, calfs and toes are the main places i get it. i was on the understanding it happens when you dont have enough water and salt in your body?
 
Hellbell84. The quinine does stop the cramps and yes you can get it on prescription from
your DR's.
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LovelyWendie
 
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Anthony Neve said:
i had cramp in my right foot last night- the 3 right toes! i hate cramp but if it happens it tends tobe when ive just stretched that muscle out. ?hamstrings?- backs of my legs, calfs and toes are the main places i get it. i was on the understanding it happens when you dont have enough water and salt in your body?
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I think it is to do with salt. So I guess, thinking out loud here, maybe it can be a sign of high sugars/undiagnosed diabetes as then your body would be 'flushing' the glucose out so maybe some salt goes too.....?
 
squidge63 said:
"Floating stools are seen in a variety of different situations. Most are diet-related, or caused by episodes of diarrhea that accompany a gastrointestinal infection. A change in diet can lead to an increase in the amount of gas produced by the bacteria found in the (healthy) gastrointestinal tract.

Similarly, acute gastrointestinal (GI) infections can result in increased gas in the intestines, due to rapid movement of food through the GI tract. One wrong idea is that floating stools are caused by an increase in the fat content of the stool. In fact, it is increased gas in the stool that make it less dense and allow it to float.

Another cause of floating stools is malabsorption, in which the body can't properly digest and absorb fat and other nutrients from the GI tract. More than 2 weeks of diarrhea with floating stools is often seen in people suffering from malabsorption.

Increased levels of nutrients in the stool (which have not been absorbed by the GI tract) are supplied to the normal bacteria that live in the gut. These bacteria in turn produce more gas. This results in more gas-rich stools that float."
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Oh:confused:

i dont think that i have any of that, maybe i just need to check out the plumbing? :D
 
A wee point to note - my late mother suffred terribly from leg cramps and was prescribed quinine, but following a few months on quinine - she went deaf. This is apparantly q common side effect of the quinine.

Once she stopped taking quinine, her hearing came back.

She endeed up saying she would rather have the cramps, rather than be deaf

Hazel
 
Hazel. I have been on quinine for the past 18 years and have not experienced any hearing loss so I suppose that I have been lucky.
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BMW IV
 
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Kwaka1 said:
That's an odd question to ask?
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No question in here is to stupid or weird :D
Only time I get cramp through "sexual activity" is if im in th same position to long 🙄
 
i get foot cramps quite regularly, even when my sugars are fine, but i've been getting them a lot whenever anything sexual is happening
 
not yet, diabetes has always been an opponent for me, just looking up ever more ways to f* around with my life, this is just another one of them
 
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wow surprised that this post has resurfaced, two years after posting it! dont have cramp so much anymore, theyre just itchy sometimes before i go to sleep!

and i do get cramp in my feet sometimes during bom chikka wow wow, but its not ubearable and doesnt stop me 🙂

xx
 
hellbell84 said:
does anyone out there suffer from cramp in their feet? just had a bout of it (11.8 sugar) and i wanna screaaaaaaaam!!!


xxxx
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Yes me!!!!! arches of my feet sending my big toes and the rest into a wide V shape. Agony 😡 Wondered what caused it - thought it was the floor.
 
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