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Muscle cramps

Erin

Erin

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Are muscle cramps common with diabetes? How do you treat them?
 
In hot weather I used to get cramps at night. I found that when they happened, I needed quite a lot of water to make them go away, but day to day I needed salt, as I was not having any.
Since being strict about adding a pinch of salt a day I have not had any cramps.
 
Occasionally, I wake myself up in the night with cramp.
For me, this is a good indication that my blood sugar levels are too high.

However, as if often said, we are all different.
 
Resurgam said:
In hot weather I used to get cramps at night. I found that when they happened, I needed quite a lot of water to make them go away, but day to day I needed salt, as I was not having any.
Since being strict about adding a pinch of salt a day I have not had any cramps.
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thank you; could be sodium overcaution;
 
In Response said:
Occasionally, I wake myself up in the night with cramp.
For me, this is a good indication that my blood sugar levels are too high.

However, as if often said, we are all different.
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Very helpful, indeed; high blood sugar may have happened some days before taking the morning number though?
 
Erin said:
Very helpful, indeed; high blood sugar may have happened some days before taking the morning number though?
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Sorry, I don't understand your comment. I suspect you missed a typo (I know, I often do)
I will aways take my blood sugars when I wake in the night - I usually wake when they are too high or too low.
 
In Response said:
Sorry, I don't understand your comment. I suspect you missed a typo (I know, I often do)
I will aways take my blood sugars when I wake in the night - I usually wake when they are too high or too low.
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Sorry. I'll try again. For example: if your diet was high in sugar on Day 1, can it take a couple of days or more to show an increase on Day 3;
 
Erin said:
Sorry. I'll try again. For example: if your diet was high in sugar on Day 1, can it take a couple of days or more to show an increase on Day 3;
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Sorry, as I have Type 1, things are different for me.
I suspect the best way to check is to test your blood sugars - we are all different.
 
After I had been diagnosed with diabetes about 14 years ago, I was getting lots of cramps in my legs. Nowadays, I only occasionally get cramps in my hands.
 
Big time with cramps pre-diagnosis.
All disappeared once I got my BG sorted
 
I suffered for years with musclar cramps and my feet were the worst at night. When i changed my diet and started taking some magnesium tablets ( 100mg ) 3x a week i have not had any problems since :)
 
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