26-10-2016, 12:56 PM
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As long as you're eating healthfully. That's the main thing.Today for lunch I'm having beef liver and onions and 2 small baked red potatoes. Been having problems with leg cramps at night (despite all the water I drink) and part of it is due to the blood pressure medication I take, it depletes potassium and magnesium. So I'm taking a magnesium supplement and, since I didn't want to pop yet one more pill every day taking a potassium supplement as well, my doctor told me to up my potassium intake with food. Two good sources of potassium are potatoes and bananas. My bananas aren't ripe yet, so it's potatoes for lunch. I've also been eating a lot of avocado lately.
27-10-2016, 01:38 AM
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Well so far, since at least taking the magnesium, the cramps have subsided quite a bit. I was getting them every single night and *knock wood* the last few nights I haven't had them at all.I even bought this leg cramp cream and it was crap. Didn't do a thing, so I threw it away.
27-10-2016, 08:11 AM
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Glad you hear the cramps are easing up Linda. I have had really bad muscle problems in my legs for years, and the Doctors and Hospitals couldn't find what was causing it, I changed my Doctors for this lovely little Indian man, who is the only Doctor in the Practice, he sent me for a blood test and straight away when the results came back, he said to me, you have a deficiency in Vit. D, I will put you on supplements, one a day, and you know what the muscle pain went.Today its Chicken Salad.
Tonight: Homemade Carrot and Coriander Soup.
27-10-2016, 12:35 PM
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Yep, sometimes it boils down to a simple vitamin deficiency. One of the main causes of muscle cramping is dehydration. But I drink enough water every day to fill a swimming pool, lol. I just love water. A big glass of ice water is the first thing I get in the mornings when I make my way out to the kitchen and I refill it all day long. When I'm at work, I'm grabbing bottles of water out of the fridge all day. My boss thankfully keeps me stocked with bottled water. Can't drink the tap water, it tastes horrible for some reason.Carrot soup sounds good. Never had it with coriander, though. I like coriander in Mexican dishes, but not sure if I'd like it in carrot soup. I once made this wonderful cream of carrot and sweet potato soup and omg, it was delicious.
27-10-2016, 03:26 PM
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Carrot & coriander soup | BBC Good Food27-10-2016, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by susiejaeger
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Glad you hear the cramps are easing up Linda. I have had really bad muscle problems in my legs for years, and the Doctors and Hospitals couldn't find what was causing it, I changed my Doctors for this lovely little Indian man, who is the only Doctor in the Practice, he sent me for a blood test and straight away when the results came back, he said to me, you have a deficiency in Vit. D, I will put you on supplements, one a day, and you know what the muscle pain went.Today its Chicken Salad.
Tonight: Homemade Carrot and Coriander Soup.
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