Hi and welcome!
Congrats on getting your blood glucose under such good control so quickly!
There could be lots of things going on, to give you those symptoms, and I can't comment on most of them. However, cramps are a very frequent side effect of going low carb, and are usually fairly easily sorted.
When we cut down carbs, several things happen. Firstly we often dramatically reduce the amount of salt in our diet, because there is lots of salt in bread and potato, etc. Secondly, our body switches the way our kidney's work, and we often flush out any fluid retention - and at the same time, salt gets flushed out too.
The result can be cramps (depending on how much salt you used to eat, and how much is flushed away).
You can test if this is happening to you by doing a few simple things.
- add some extra salt to your food
- or drink a cup or two of Bovril a day (I use a good quality stock cube, dissolved in water and drunk as a soup).
If your cramps disappear, then the salt flushing is probably what is happening.
No need to over do it though. You probably don't need to add more than half a stock cube a day. The ones I use are 4.5 g in 500mls of hot water. So I drink half one day, and half the next = approx 2 g a day, which provides more than enough extra salt.
There is plenty of info (and debate) on salt on LC, all over the forum and the internet, if you have a search. But just bear in mind that a lot of the advice on cutting salt down is aimed at people who don't eat low carb.
I also find that potassium and magnesium supplements (in small doses, bought on the high street) also help, because I have tendency to cramp in hot weather, when we perspire more.
