Lack of sleep can cause headaches. So can monosodium glutamate MSG in Chinese takeout food. Grinding your teeth can cause headaches. So can wearing glasses with a prescription that is out of date. And brain aneurysms can cause headaches, of course. My point here is that when diagnosing the cause of a headache, a dartboard or Ouija Board are as much use as any of the other tools in the medical arsenal.
Cramps are sorta the same. They can be triggered, as you pointed out, by too much or too little exercise, too much or too little calcium, too much or too little magnesium, potassium, salt, and every vitamin in the book. Cramps can also be caused by some classes of medications, the statin family of cholesterol-lower drugs being the most notorious.
But the difference between headaches and cramps is that headaches are easier to treat. Take two Aspirin and call me in the morning. On the other hand, not all cramps are created equal, and to successfully treat cramps you really need to figure out the cause and fix it, i.
So as to your question, Warren, does diabetes cause cramps? Yeah, probably so. But the method of action is a big fat question mark. Garden-variety tap water would be just as good. Maybe better. To your second question: are there any real solutions?
You bet! Good old fashioned trial and error. So get out your dart board or your Ouija Board. Use it to pick one of the likely causes of cramps. Treat that cause for a few weeks and see if your cramps get better. If not, go on to the next most likely cause. Now if you want to be a real scientist, once you think you found the cause, stop the treatment and see if the cramps come back. If so, quod erat demonstrandum — meaning you found the cause.
But to stop the pain immediately during an acute cramp attack, most people have good results hoping around on one foot, swearing, trying to massage the cramp and praying for a swift death. Sorry, I have no real science to offer on this one. My mother read about it somewhere and has sworn by it for years.
I frequently get nasty cramps during sharp blood sugar excursions the cause of which is no mystery: equal parts gluttony and stupidity in the kitchen and, for me, popping a couple of calcium pills quickly resolves cramps. Of course, I still observe the hoping and swearing ritual, too. Just to be on the safe side. So maybe a shot of calcium mellows out the excited nerves again. Oh, and one last dose of save-your-bacon myth busting: For many years the malaria drug quinine also present in tonic water, interestingly was believed to help nighttime leg cramps.
Not anymore. It now carries a strong FDA warning against such use. Apparently science has never proved quinine worked for cramps, but it did prove that it could cause severe bleeding, kidney damage, irregular heartbeat, and stuff like death.
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