PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for February, 2002: Re: metformin & leg pain/cramps

Re: metformin & leg pain/cramps

From: Panacea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:03:17 -0600 (CST)

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It sounds like a magnesium deficiency. Go out and guy some magnesium supplements (make sure it's just magnesium) probably 250mg tablets, and take one at night before going to bed, every night. Magnesium can't hurt you, they give it to people who have heart attacks or hypothermia in the hospital intraveniously at about 1400 mg a day so a 250 mg dose should have little side effects.

My mom has terrible leg and feet cramps and pains without taking her daily magnesium, she takes 400 mg. (She's diabetic.)

At Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Audrey wrote: >
>I've been taking metformin for a few months now and I can live with the
>nausea and diarrhea but I'm wondering if the problems I'm having with my
>legs is a side effect. I started having severe muscle cramps at night
>time. I would wake up screaming with a charlie horse. Now I'm finding
>that my ankle gets sore and then the pain starts travelling up my leg to
>the back of my knee. I've been taking calcium supplemnets for a few
>weeks hoping that it would help but I'm getting worried. I don't want
>to stop taking the metformin. It's taken me many years to finally get
>diagnosed as PCO and treated I don't want to stop now. Has anyone had
>this problem or know of it happening and if so what can I do?

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Panacea

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