Tips For Cramping Of Your Legs

@kathy77 (7486)
Australia
February 7, 2007 5:44pm CST
Hi Friends I just wanted to send you this to help you when you suffer from cramping of your legs. "I have one health tip that really works. We have all experienced leg cramps, or better known as "charlie horses" in our lives. Some have them worse than others. I have found that when one starts, rub plain white vinegar on the hurting area, and in just a few seconds, the pain is gone. I have tried it and it works, and others I've told about it in the past tell me it works for them, too." So it will work for you too
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (160697)
• United States
7 Feb 07
In the Vermont Folk Medicine book it is recommended to drink apple cider vinegar and honey in water to make sure you have enough potassium in your system to prevent the muscle cramps, and other ailments. Placing all of your weight on the leg that has the cramp causes it to stop as well.
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cassiem0221
@cassiem0221 (274)
• United States
7 Feb 07
This has been my remedy for quite some time. I am about to have my fourth child and while pregnant I tend to have several charlie horses each day. I get up (as quickly as possible) and transfer my weight to the aching leg. Seems to work most every time! Thanks for the vinegar tip but I don't think that I would be able to get to it quickly enough! :)
dbeamon
@dbeamon (128)
• United States
8 Feb 07
ive tried to do the transfer wight to the leg that hurts but then its bruised that day. ill try the vinegar thing tho
chewydoll
@chewydoll (86)
• Philippines
8 Feb 07
how miraculous tip this was... if only then i knew this, then i wouldn't have problem at all since we have abundant of white vinegars. My close neighbor is making a white vinegar out from the fresh coconut sap in our farm.
minerc
@minerc (1373)
• United States
8 Feb 07
I will have to try this, I have always heard it's due to lack of potassium I feed my kid's and husband bananas when they get these it helps for them. I don't like bananas so I will try the vinegar. Thanks for the tip.
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kathy77
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
Yes they do say that we have to eat bananas for potassium and also they should be eating pure orange juice this is also great for potassium.
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MsTickle
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
I take pottassium tablets daily for something else but still get severe cramps in my legs and feet some nights.
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feelinggood
@feelinggood (217)
• Canada
8 Feb 07
Take a calcium magnesium tablet before going to bed. This is a cheap rememdy and will work.
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lifeiseasy
@lifeiseasy (2292)
• United States
7 Feb 07
What a great tip ...I always used quinine sulfa for 20 years now .. I am going to use this to see if it works on mine..will be great as vinegar is alot cheaper than those pills I have to buy ...thanks
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MsTickle
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
My Dad swears by quinine but they didn't help me. I do the weight thing, pushing down on the ailing leg but it takses a long time for the pain to go.
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incomes1987
@incomes1987 (156)
• Nicaragua
8 Feb 07
Thanks for the advice. Very helpfull. I know that natural products are most of the time betters than laboratoty, so i can beleive you
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mommyaiai
@mommyaiai (295)
• United States
8 Feb 07
that's what we do in the philippines,but when i got here in the states i forgot to do that.Thanks for reminding me,i really had cramp in my legs but the smell of the vinegar is so strong,its good in the philippines coz the floor is not a carpet and there is no aircon but here its aircon so the smell will not go right away.
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ssh123
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
8 Feb 07
Thank you very much for your tips and I shall try it out this evening. I have some problems which you have mentioned.
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Sandra06
@Sandra06 (430)
• United States
8 Feb 07
Kathy, this really works. My grandmother told me about this. She has done this for over 50 years when she has leg cramps. I have a lot of leg cramps, and it works for me also.
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jan135
@jan135 (535)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
I'll have to try that myself, as I do get leg cramps sometimes usually at night in bed. I don't know what my partner will think, he will probably think he's sleeping next to a bag of fish and chips LOL.
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cloudwatcher
@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
I get very few leg cramps since I started taking magnesium every day, but when I did get them they were quickly eased by putting full weight on the offending leg. I never had continuing pain after relieving the cramp, so I'm afraid vinegar wouldn't help.
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berlinsteph21
@berlinsteph21 (25)
• Philippines
8 Feb 07
Thanks for the tip. I often get leg cramps becuase I sit a lto especially when I'm surfing the net. Oftentimes I get leg cramps. Your tip is very practical!!!
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sunilkonda
@sunilkonda (1215)
• India
8 Feb 07
hey thanks for sharing this information..
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risingsun521
@risingsun521 (16)
• India
8 Feb 07
as far as my knowledge goes leg cramps are due to deficiency of salts in the body.In order to reduce them or to completely get rid of the problem,drink much of water with small amounts of salts in it.
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3225sr
@3225sr (97)
• India
8 Feb 07
your tips is really so good and useful. it is really batter of some useless question and quarries. i will definetaly try is and then i am say thankyou to you
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weemam
@weemam (13372)
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7 Feb 07
I have Osteo Arthritis and I will give this a try . I would be just great if this works , I bought the white vinegar last week for another of your tips lol . xx
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Decarus
@Decarus (146)
• Malaysia
8 Feb 07
rub plain white vinegar on the pain area..Looks amazing..But where am i gonna get a while vinegar? I dun think i can walk around with that leg.. lolZ.. anyway..Just leave it straight for about 30 sec the thing will start to go away..Thanks for ur idea though.. :)
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kathy77
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
8 Feb 07
my discussion did not mention while it says white thanks for respond though and it does not always go away that quick, and I am only trying to help my friends on mylot.
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Gabs
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
11 Feb 07
Wow I will try that and if it works I will tell my Kids about it as they suffer with it bad sometimes, by plain Vinegar do you mean white Vinegar?
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kathy77
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
12 Feb 07
Hi Gabs, my discussion about using vingegar for cramps it does say white vinegar in this discussion and it does really work it is amazing how many things you can do with vinegar there are over 1,000 uses for vinegar, but I do pray you do not get many as they are terrible.
emilieespino
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
18 Feb 07
I have also posted a discussion on my leg cramps and got lots of good tips. I will try using vinegar as you suggested when it happens again.
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subha12
@subha12 (18441)
• India
30 Apr 07
thanks a lot for this nice one. but most of the time i get this cramp at middle of night in my sleep. so its become very difficult to apply anythibg. may be from next time onward i'll try this.
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sunshinelady
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
30 Apr 07
This may be three months old but I needed advice also like QueenKaren about leg cramps. One of the members in their response put this link to your discussion. I was glad to see it myself. They wake me up from my sleep and it feels like someone is tearing my leg off. They used to happen all the time when I was younger and then I hadn't had them for years. Now I am getting them again and after one of these I can't hardly walk at all. So I will give this a try. Thanks this was appreciated very much.
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