Leg cramps!

Can't believe you're 15 weeks already heaf!

So the dreaded leg cramps! I went through a stage of getting them so bad they'd wake me up in the middle of the night crying.

Someone told me it was a deficiency in potassium and that eating bananas helped, someone else swears by a small glass of powerade before bed. Neither worked for me though. I started doing leg stretches morning and night and that lessened them a bit.

my MW told me Calcium & magnesium as well. i have jsut started getting them in my legs & groin which is worse.

ugh i don't like banana's lol.

might talk to my mw and see if she thinks i should go on a supplement or whatever.

my legs are aching so bad now, i feel like i have run a marathon or something! they are all weak and sore. oh fun times LOL

faffer i can't believe you are 30 weeks!!!!!

Bananas stopped me from getting them with B (they are sooo freaking painful huh!), never got them with Jae, but I was eating a LOT of fruit, so may have simply prevented instead...

If they do come on, the best suggestion I ever got was to make a dash to the kitchen or bathroom (or any tiled/lino'd floor) and walk around on it, the walking, and the cold sensation on your feet seems to ease it up pretty quick, and helps stop that horrid aching that lingers otherwise.

they can also be that you need more sodium (salt). Magnesium seems to be the most common supplement suggested for them. If you don't like bananas for potassium, do you like avocados instead? I had them for a time but they passed in about a week - so it might have just been baby in a funny spot.

i got these and probably will again. I found that sleeping with my feet on a pillow so they are just ever so slightly elevated helped

edit: - just to say that obviously only alleviates the night time ones that make you wake up screaming!

Edited by Susiec