Leg cramps...

[ummmm]

Is there any cause of this? My 15 year son is suffering with them badly.

[ummmm]

Yeah...listen to the moaning about a little bit of nipple ache!!

[EvianBaby]

Lol. Nipple ache. PAH!

[TheOtherHalf]

I always drank tonic water and found it did help, and sometimes if I got restless legs in the middle of the night, just a drink of water seemed to help.

Yes, a debate is good. People can get all sorts of things off their chest that they wouldnt otherwise perhaps have brought up on here.

Hope you can get him sorted, ummmm.

[Brinjal]

Eating things like beans and bananas only works if the produce has been grown in potassium rich soil.

[ummmm]

He has a really good diet. He more or less eats whatever I put in front of him.

[whiskeysheri]

I get leg/foot cramp whenever I'm dehydrated/hungover (which i guess is the same), ummmm. Maybe it's that?

[ummmm]

Lol....he doesn't drink that much. He's home most nights so we know he's not drinking on a regular basis. He wouldn't dare come home drunk....

[daffy654]

Dehydration is a very common cause of cramp. Try a few days of making him drink lots of clear fluids (not milky drinks or fizzy ones). Those non-fizzy sports drinks are good.

[ummmm]

He drinks them Daff...but I'll get him to drink more water, with a banana.

[whiskeysheri]

I meant more the dehydration than the hangovers, ummmm, that's more me. :)

[mccfluff]

i used to get really bad cramps in my legs but i did a lot of swimming them (i was around 13-15) i do remember the docs calling it growing pains though.

As far as i can remember i just used to massage tiger balm in or take a pain killer , they went on their own in the end

[ummmm]

Whisk :-)

The only reason I'm concerned is how long they've been going on, and appear to be getting steadily worse. We're at a point now where he's watching TV and jumps out of his seat screaming (and says rude words) You can see the pain in his face.

[LoftyLottie]

My son had real problems with cramps at that age ummmm, in association with this:

http://www.patient.co...hlatter's-Disease.htm

If you read through it you will see it is associated with growth. So 'growing pains' can't be ruled out.

I have a similar condition in my back caused by a growth spurt.

Hypermobility can make these pains worse (both my son and I are hypermobile).

See a doctor and put your mind at rest.

[Eve]

I'm get really painful legs, especially when resting in the evenings and with cramps and find that keeping my legs and feet cool helps. I've got a fan thing by my bed I have on timer for an hour (in the hope I'm asleep by then) and have cool gels like aloe vera and a Boots foot one for when they are bad or especially in hot weather.

Getting them relaxed is good too - I'm not a big bath fan generally but I have relaxing bath stuff (radox stuff) and dead sea salts and radox bath salts. I can't do it too close to bed though as I need to keep my legs cool to get comfortable to sleep.

I also find massage has helped relax them, especially if feeling tight after lots of cramping, it's a bit wincy at first (thank goodness I'm facedown moment) but actually helps once they've relaxed a bit. Similarly with my feet which cramp up too.

I read somewhere that it can help to let the cramp go rather than trying to fight and tense against to get it to stop it which can prolongue it and make it worse and go into repeat cramps. I've been trying to make myself relax and let it have it's moment a bit more and it has helped a bit.

I'm amazed the cats still have the patience to try and curl up on/round my legs for any length of time :)

I do have arthritis (and hypermobile like Lottie with fibromyalgia) but aside from that's involvement in the above, I hope some of the above might help him get a bit more comfortable.

[Eve]

(For Lottie (sorry ummm!) - we have OS and hyperobility in the family too - we really are quite similar in many respects!).