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Vascular Disease causes night cramps

That’s not to say that you have (Peripheral Artery Disease) there are other causes of cramping in the legs and feet.

I must also add that The Statin medications can also cause mild to severe cramp.

Why do I make this statement and what then is Vascular Disease.

Hi my name is Michelle, and I speak from my own personal experience having suffered unknowingly for more than 10 years (Peripheral Artery Disease) A Vascular Disease.You can read my story here.

What is Vascular disease,

Think of your heart as a pump and your arteries and veins ( The circulatory or Vascular System as the tubes) that run throughout your body carrying the blood to keep your body healthy.

When any one of these tubes (arteries or veins becomes blocked) this is when the health problems can start.Thus causing CAD Coronary Artery Disease your heart or as in my case PAD Peripheral Artery Disease.That is I had little blood flow to my legs and feet.

Here you can read my personal story on the pain associated with Peripheral Artery Disease pad.

Something else I want to say before I continue. I feel most people think of Vascular Disease as just associated to your heart. It seems that until someone is diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease pad that they had never heard of it.

Vascular Disease causes night cramps

So for me Vascular Disease caused night cramps:  No one is going to convince me any different. Possibly if you are reading this I take a guess that you are suffering those horrendous Night Cramps in your legs,feet,and toes too. And sometimes cramps in the hands.

Night Cramps Legs Feet

Back to those cramps or whats that funny name Horse Cramps no Charley Horse leg Cramps. 

You know the pattern,  you go to bed a lovely warm bed and you relax or start reading a good book. You may even have gone to sleep.  Slowly there’s a kind of mild tightening.

Now mine always  started in my big toe, this feeling that creeps,twinges,spasms right over the top of your foot and if you’re real unlucky right up your calf muscle.

Vascular Disease Causes Night Cramps

I can’t remember when my nocturnal cramps started I do remember that over a period of years. they became an every night event. As you do I visited many websites for causes, I often saw these words (can be associated to a medical condition.) Well that wasn’t my problem! Or was it.

As far as I knew at the time I didn’t have the illnesses stated on most websites Read Here ….

 I could not exercise due to chronic pain and decreasing mobility, and lack of exercise can cause night cramps. 

Though I do know I didn’t drink enough water and still don’t! you do really need to drink a good amount of water approximately upto 2 litres per day or 8-8 ounce glasses a day. Though having said water you can drink other fluids.

 Help Ease Night Cramps

Most often advised is to try and stretch out the cramp which sounds an easy answer, however not being so young and supple one can’t always drop to the floor for these muscle stretches. Not always achievable with agonizing cramp of the calf muscle of the leg. I could ease sometimes a foot cramp by pulling my toes back.

There are many suggested natural cures for leg cramps at night and three products helped me.

Liquid Magnesium I rubbed madly and as best I could massaged from toes and up my leg.

A Magnesium Powder Supplement this a powerful supplement for the muscles helps ease night cramps and is to aid relaxation, in fact I found I relaxed more in general and slept better.

Tonic Water which contains Quinine. I found this extremely effective I took a glass to bed, sipped about a 1/4 cup when I felt a cramp coming on. It worked very quickly for me.

Some of the medical profession are against Quinine check with your doctor to be safe. While Quinine can be dangerous for some it has not been banned by the FDA

Peripheral Artery Disease

I never asked my Doctor about these night cramps, even though I was there often with Chronic pain and losing my mobility

If you follow my link and scroll through you will see that I was suffering Peripheral Artery Disease 

 Support Group pad

I belong to a Peripheral Arterial- Vascular Disease group on Facebook. This is a lovely friendly private group full of personal and helpful information and support.  Peripheral Arterial- Vascular Disease Support Group On Facebook

Vascular Disease Causes Night Cramps

On the 5th July 2017 I had Aortic Bifemoral Bypass Surgery  You can read my story here on my Aortic Bifemoral Bypass.  I have never had those horrible night cramps since.