Hi Mike in Marysville. I am wondering why you go off the baclofen? I suffer from cramps, really bad ones in my calfs and on my right side. the neuro increased my baclofen and neurontin, so that I'm taking another dose of each at night before bed. I don't take the baclofen at lunch, it makes me too tired, but it works great at night.
I also think that it helps with my restlessness at night. I sleep better now.
Another reason could be potassium. Low potassium will cause muscle cramps too.
Take care, Deb C. in gloomy rainy Mich.
--- On Thu 02/02, Mike & Jill Hammond < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Mike & Jill Hammond [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: tmic-list@eskimo.com
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:49:39 -0800
Subject: [TMIC] Shots and cramps
Well, it has been a while since I have posted anything. I do lurk and read a lot of the postings. I have to weigh in on one subject and ask a question aboput something totally different.
First, while I did not have a flu shot before I came down with TM, I had just recently completed a Hepatitis B series. At that time the doctor told me that this may have also been a possibility. I am not sure what it was, but after a lot of reading about injections of different types, and especially the contents of a flu shot, I thought that I would rather get the flu than the flu shot. The one flu shot I did get several years before TM made me sick.
My question concerns cramps. I have been reading some of the postings and still have questions. For some time now I have been having cramps in my feet, mostly at night. The
cramps usually are in the ball of the feet. These cramps range from annoying, to feeling like someone dropped an anvil on my foot. At times, the only relief I get is by putting pressure in the opposite direction from the way the cramp seems to want to pull the feet muscles. Has anyone else experienced something like this, and if so, what have you done for it. I still have cramps in various locations in my body and when they get too bad for me I take baclofen for 3 to 5 days and they subside. Sometimes I can go a month or more without taking baclofen and sometimes it may be several times in a month. Sometime back I posted a question asking if anyone used quinine water to help with cramps and I did not receive any feedback. I feel that it does help a little.
Mike in Marysville, Washington where it is wet, damp, rainy, soggy, mossy, and miserable. Othe than that, SEAHAWKS
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