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Jumpy legs - related to exhaustion, dehydration or low blood sugar?

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Issy
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Does anyone else get this? It isn't "restless leg syndrome". They just sit there jumping away for a few hours, after a long hard physically active, maybe cold, day.

I think it might be related most to blood sugars possibly dehydration, or maybe mitochondrial exhaustion.

I'm not finding I get this anymore, on current meds.

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Hiphypo

Mine used to do that but then I started taking Magnesium - and it stopped.mI believe low potassium could also have an effect?

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Me too.

Magnesium supplementation made a dramatic difference with this to me, I also had a worse problem with severe cramping for decades and it reduced this to almost zero.

Dr Myhills site has good info on Mg supplementing.

drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Magnesi...

I make up a solution of Magnesium chloride as she suggests and rub it into my skin.

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Willowluv

Also iorn deficiency/b12/hypothyroidism amongst others. Have you had a google. X

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Issy

I can only find restless legs syndrome, or epileptic like syndromes

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Issy

Looking back at my notes, my ferritin has been below range, but nothing was mentioned at the time (it was before I started routinely getting printouts)

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lara1975

Hi, I'm anaemic and before I went on iron tablets, I had restless legs.

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poing

I had this too, and it does sound like restless legs, which appears or is worse at the end of a long hard day. It stopped when I got my iron levels up.

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