Wow, did I have a horrible attack tonight. I went through a bad time with leg/feet cramps over the summer when I gave up dairy, but they seemed to resolve when I started back with the dairy and supplemented as necessary.

Tonight, I can only attribute the "attack" to eating something way too salty. Unfortunately right afterwards, I ran out to do errands, and was practically debilitated. I think every muscle in my feet and lower legs were affected to the point where I was unable to control my feet. I was worried about driving obviously, but thankfully was able to use cruise control for the bulk of drive and kept cramping at bay by constantly moving and extending my feet.

I could barely walk when I got home. I immediately drank about 20 oz of water, popped two calcium supplements, a Mag64 and a potassium supplement. Something in that mix resolved the problem pretty quickly, and I've been fine since.

As I thought about it, I was very weak on calcium intake today, but I had taken a Mag64 earlier in the day, so I assume it wasn't just that. I can only guess that the sodium did something really bad, maybe in conjunction with low calcium? Or maybe it was just dehydration, but I've NEVER had cramps like that from dehydration. It was downright frightening.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this that they can attribute to excess sodium?

I have to change doctors with a change in health insurance, and think I'm going to make an appointment just to see if the new doc has any thoughts. If anyone can suggest any tests that might be good to run, I'm all ears.