Question: I frequently have muscle spasms in my feet and legs during the night. Sometimes it seems to be set off by just wiggling my toes or changing my position from back to side, etc. Sometimes my big toe (this can happen or either foot) draws up and becomes fixed to the point that I have to put it back into XXXXXXX position by hand. A couple of days ago, I got a severely painful spasm in my right leg, calf area, posterior and medial, in
The distal portion. It was like a "Charley horse" that wouldn't go away. There is still pain on both dorsal and superior flexion of the foot as well as tenderness to touch. About 46 years ago, I sustained compression fractures of L2 and 3 in a car accident, and have not had any problems, even throughout a pregnancy a couple of years later. I sometimes also get painful spasms in my torso, just from some minor movement.
It seems to help if I take potassium (OTC 99mg.) For some reason, I tend to have low potassium levels off and
On, even though I do not take any diuretic and eat a lot of citrus, bananas, tomatoes, etc. Is there any autoimmune condition that would cause these symptoms? I take Synthroid and just recently started taking
Toprol XL 25 mg. daily due to a recent mitral valve leak. I'm 76 Years old, retired R.N.