I'm getting godawful nightcramps, which have been so bad that both my calves are painful in their aftermath, with one calf just going into a big knot.

I'm finding that I can anticipate the cramps because they are preceded and followed by diffuse muscle twitches. I'm not sure they'd be visible (I'm always in bed), but as I lie there, one muscle after another gives a tiny twitch somewhere, and then I can feel my legs start to tighten, and the cramps begin. They involved the entire leg: calf, ankle muscles, sole of my feet. I get up and walk around the house, mostly, until they calm down. But when I get back in bed, I have the twitches, and some jerky movements, say of a finger, or ankle, or shoulder.

Anybody have all this at once?

I know magnesium is recommended, but in what dose? Because so far it hasn't helped, but maybe I'm not using enough.

Any ideas?

I'm concerned this is related to nerve death to muscles, and wonder if anyone else has this.

PS. My sinuses are a wreck, defying all treatment, and that's caused by a combination of bacteria and fungi which, the doctors believe, are growing as an independent organism, a "biofilm". Anyone interested in the "biofilm" theory of chonic infections, I urge to google and read about it. As it turns out that with many chronic infections organisms join up and sense nutrients and each other, and stack in orderly ways, like a brick wall, with channels to deliver nutrients and remove debris. And this is done as a community working together. They secrete a thick viscous substance, a polysaccharide, which surrounds the layer with a glue, making it impervious to antibiotics. It is the only explanation about why I have organisms growing in me which are sensitive to the antibiotics I am taking. This is why people with cystic fibrosis die of pneumonia, despite antibiotics--the bacteria are unreachable.

http://www.erc.montana.edu/CBEssenti...ol/default.htm or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm

But this post is about the cramps--how much magnesium, in what form? I need ideas; my calves really hurt and are knotted from the cramping.