Carol Brow.....
Carol, you might try adding in vitamin E to your mother's regimen. It's
brought many of us quite a bit of relief from nite-time toe/leg cramping...
I take 2 400 ICUs ('cause the 800 ICU size is too hard for me to swallow) of
vitamin E with my first Sinemet of the day, and rarely get toe/leg cramping
any more. IF I should get a cramp, I just add in an additional 400 ICUs for a
week, and the durn cramps disappear once again for months at a time.
Barb Mallut
"Lil_Honey"on the PD Chat
[log in to unmask]
----------
From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf
of Carol L. Brow
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 1997 10:03 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
Subject: leg cramps
I am caregiver to my mother who is 87.
Besides PD, she has osteoporosis and has
suffered through three compressed
vertibrae.
She has taken supplemental calcium most
of her adult life but increased the amount
after experiencing the first v. compression.
She takes 1500 mg of calcium with magnesium
everyday.
On the odd night that she wakes up with
muscle pain, I give her 500 mg. additional
calcium and in a few minutes the pain
is gone and she can get back to sleep.
Next time she has muscle pain I'll try
heat while I prepare the calcium. (she
can not swallow the capsules so I open
them and mix them with apple sauce
or something simular.
I know the calcium works. I believe
that there must be an increased need
for the mineral at least in her case.
I have used it for minstral cramps
and leg cramps and it was the first
thing I thought of when she first
began to experience these night
time leg cramps.
Carol Brow
Lake Leelanau, Michigan and
Winter Haven, Florida
