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Anyone getting leg cramps already?

huntress17huntress17 member
in November 2014 Moms
Ugh they have been sooooo bad for me!!!! I've been drinking plenty of water and I eat a banana every day to try and help but it seems as though I'm not doing enough
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Re: Anyone getting leg cramps already?

  • AceditAcedit member
    Yup- in the middle of the night, scares the crap out of me, & it's always in my calf. I've been eating two bananas and atleast 80 ounces of water..... Apparently I need more
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  • Mawilliams97Mawilliams97 member
    Well drinking more is a first step. But as a diabetic I send a little awareness, I also have this when my blood sugar levels are to high. Try monitoring what you are eating right before it happens. Hope this helps.
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  • Celticlass6Celticlass6 member
    Yup. Always at night, but mostly in my feet not my legs. I thought I was drinking plenty of water. May need to increase it just to be sure, but I've always had bad circulation in my legs.
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  • bustarmu21bustarmu21 member
    I just had one for the first time in my calf last night while I was sleeping! Ouch.
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  • hiketheworldhiketheworld member
    I totally came on this morning to post exactly this!!! I had my first one last night at 4 am. My whole calf seized and dear god did it hurt. I guess I will start drinking more water and eating more bananas. Does massage/stretching before going to bed help?
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  • xiaopeapodxiaopeapod member
    They sucks. I had the. Three times already, and the second time it was in both calves at the same time! I heard stretching your legs before bed might help. Keep forgetting to do that though.
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  • Love4ScienceLove4Science member
    I've been having them for almost 4 weeks now.  I've noticed if I slack off on my calcium intake at all, I get them, but if I get three good servings of dairy a day (usually 2 glasses of milk and a yogurt), I don't get them, and if I do they aren't as bad.  Try upping your calcium intake and see what happens.  The baby is building bones now and he/she's sucking that calcium right out of you.

    Sodium (Na+) and Potassium (K+) are the popularly known ions necessary for transmitting an action potential through a nerve.  However, Calcium (Ca+) is also necessary and if you aren't getting enough of one of these ions, you can have nerve spasms.  That's probably what's happening to us.
    Baby girl N born 10/29/14!

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  • Celticlass6Celticlass6 member
    I hate bananas so I've taken a potassium supplement for years. I mentioned the cramps to my OB on Wednesday and she said to make sure to get enough calcium and water. She also mentioned magnesium... And mentioned it would make my stool soft as a bonus.
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  • huntress17huntress17 member
    One of my cravings is milk and cheese sticks. I've been eating and drinking like it's going out of style. Thanks for the solutions :) glad to hear it's not early for me ha ha
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  • Curlyfries851Curlyfries851 member
    Woke up with Charlie horses in both legs the other night that would just not go away! Why does potassium help? I'm intrigued...
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  • k1911k1911 member
    OMG YES!!!!!!!!!  It hurts so bad!!!  I honestly wake up like 3 times a night with cramps in both of my legs.  And I drink lots of water during the day but I try not to drink too much before bed because then I have to pee during the night.  So it's either drink more water before bed and have to get up and pee, or not drink water and get woken up anyway with these leg cramps.  Very interesting though @love4science, thanks for the information.  I will try to up my calcium intake.  I just started taking Materna, recommended by my OB, which has lots of calcium. One of the joys of pregnancy.  Anyone else find that sleep is getting harder to come by??  First tri I slept so well, now I'm waking up a lot and having crazy, wild dreams all night and I'm getting more uncomfortable.  
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  • silverwings72silverwings72 member
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    k1911 said:

    OMG YES!!!!!!!!!  It hurts so bad!!!  I honestly wake up like 3 times a night with cramps in both of my legs.  And I drink lots of water during the day but I try not to drink too much before bed because then I have to pee during the night.  So it's either drink more water before bed and have to get up and pee, or not drink water and get woken up anyway with these leg cramps.  Very interesting though @love4science, thanks for the information.  I will try to up my calcium intake.  I just started taking Materna, recommended by my OB, which has lots of calcium. One of the joys of pregnancy.  Anyone else find that sleep is getting harder to come by??  First tri I slept so well, now I'm waking up a lot and having crazy, wild dreams all night and I'm getting more uncomfortable.  

    No leg cramps yet but sleeping has been awful. I've been waking up in the middle of the night with back spasms. Combine the upper back pain with weird dreams and having to pee and sleep has become frustrating. Then I start to get anxiety because I don't get enough sleep. It's a vicious, sucky cycle! And then the people i explain this to tell me to suck it up because, "it gets worse." Way to kick me when I'm down. Grrrrrrrr
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  • k1911k1911 member
    @silverwings72 the anxiety about not sleeping sucks! I have that too. I will lie there for like 30 mins after waking up and get mad at myself for thinking
    about everything and not trying to sleep...which makes my sleep really shitty. Hopefully it doesn't get too much worse....
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