It's probably all that dancing with Coco (sorry on spelling). JK. If they started after ADT could be. If your activity choice or level increased or changed that could be it. I get seep tissue massages and the spots that I cramp are always triggered.
My partner was having significant leg cramps for a while (on Firmagon and Erleada). His thyroid function had been reduced so he was put on thyroid medication which might have helped but his personal solution, to drink about 200 mL of paedialyte (not as high sugar as gatorade and more controlled dosage of salts from what we've read) as soon as cramps begin has been very effective. Almost always happens when he's been golfing or working out. Water alone is not sufficient as salts can be depleted too. Good luck!
I second the idea on Mg supplementation... may be a good idea even for those without cramping! I suggest taking in the pm. Some googling will reveal other possible benefits.
Yeah - Magnesium supplements should quiet them down. It's like age-related peripheral artery disease. Also potassium - a banana with breakfast will usually eliminate them also.
Try Coconut Water. They make a version that has some added Pineapple Juice that is great tasting. It's a bit pricey but its full of potassium and magnesium.
It helped me relieve the leg cramping I was dealing with a few years ago. And I still use it as necessary.
Let me know if Coconut Water helps! My husband gets leg pain, at night especially, and deals with restless leg. I'm going to up his electrolytes today! Hope you find relief!!
after I adt started Lupron Xtandi, for a couple years I get that restless leg looking thing , joking call it my Saint Vitus Dance episodes.
I make sure I’m well hydrated with those mineralized sports drinks and a Xanax makes quick work of it for me. I pretty much have it now and then continuously. Every day for sure. Compared to the “ other “ issues I have, it’s a minimal thing I kinda ignore unless it cranks up ( which it does. ).
A lot good of recommendations, comments. I'll throw in my 2 cents. For women it is quite common and relates to low potassium. Witness my wife who when it starts to predominate she makes sure to eat a banana a day and by about 3rd day cramps subside.
Hey scout! It could be dehydration ? Potassium might help . A couple bananas a day? Or a combo of both . It is the adt . Imho That’s drives muscles down ..
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Calf cramps became part of my life with ADT despite daily stretching in Pilates sessions and other activity. Magnesium supplements did not seem to help but since starting with Estradiol for hot flushes they have diminished to cautionary/annoying, not crippling jump from bed type.
”Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me bananas. Daylight come and me wants to go home.” Get some Kirkland Calcium with Magnesium at Costco to go with those bananas. Then dance, dance, dance!
I believe the quality of your supplements is extremely important or you will be wasting your time and money....I love Costco and their olive oil from Italy is fabulous, but multi vitamins and other supplements from there, not so good.
Your supplementation is good (or is becoming so it seems), so you’ll see if that makes a difference.
It’s been said, but you must hydrate for many reasons, preventing cramps being only one of them. You know this, but nighttime frequency can make one reluctant, with this I can empathize.
Hydrate anyway. You can train your bladder to hold more very safely. Think of your younger years. At the least, you can try hydrating more consciously during the day and stopping early in the evening.
Do you stretch your calves thoroughly and regularly?
You are not alone buddy! I have been going through the same thing for a while....doctor says to increase levels of magnesium intake...will let youknow...
Scout, there is a great product that my husband takes, an electrolyte drink mix. It comes in a box with packets of different flavors. I put one packet in about 24 ounces of water. LMNT electrolyte drink mix. contains 1,000 mg sodium, 200mg potassium, 60mg of magnesium. I call it my home made Gatoraid...its good for you and has helped Jim with this problem. I have a juicer and sometimes I add juiced watermelon , believe me its really good. It mixes easily as I put it in a mason jar and just shake it up. I do this every day for him. I hope this helps you! Jim likes citrus salt flavor, I have tasted every flavor, all good!
Have you been doing your stretches? On an interesting note I found that calf stretches help prevent hamstring cramping.
Great suggestions already posted with a number of issues to pursue.
Off the wall suggestion. This probably won't work, but it's easy and free to try...
A somewhat successful remedy for cramps at night and RLS is to put a bar of soap under the bottom sheet, down by your feet. Any soap, wrapping removed. Ivory and Irish Spring (US brands for a mild, plain soap and a strongly scented one for men) are supposed to be really good: Google it.
Millions of opinions, from placebo effect to various components of different soaps to interaction of feet with a solid under the sheet to, um, alien influences? LOL No one knows, but there are enough people who try it and it works for them. I can guarantee that no one, well except those that believed everything Dr Oz said on his show, expected a stupid bar of soap to make any difference at all. But it did. Effect does fade and then it's time for a new bar. This world is full of strange and wonderful things!
On a side note, I was talking to an elderly neighbor yesterday and she was telling me she has been successful using grated Irish Spring soap to repel mice! I'm going to try to help the poor old thing seal off her house to keep them out.
I wonder what else the "refreshing spring" chemicals in IS soap will ward off! LOL
Are you on abiraterone? If so, how much prednisone are you taking? My husband was having terrible calf cramping after restarting Zytiga. The pharmacist printed the label with instructions to take 10 mg, which he did. Leg cramps started within days.
The MO's instructions were to take 5 mg, so after adjusting the dosage th cramps stopped. MO says it isn't the Zytiga, it is the prednisone that causes the cramps.
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