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Originally Posted by HealingNSuffering
I have "Restless Leg Syndrome" the feeling is just horrible. Its even more of a pain in the *** when I'm trying to sleep and I'm getting leg spasms and muscle cramps. There's been a few times where I woke up with a Charlie horse from it. Restless leg's all my life, was told they were just "growing pains" when I was just a boy. It makes it really hard to sleep at night, its like when racing thoughts, anxiety, depression are not keeping me up at night, muscle cramps (painful) and spasms are.
I recently injured a leg muscle bike riding, because I found a good remedy to it was to exercise until my legs hurt, as this would let my body produce enough endorphins to cope through the pain. Since I've been injured I haven't been exercising and my muscles are wasting and the spasms & cramps are getting worse. Also when my anxiety gets really high the spasms get worse. I learned to control the anxiety in my head a lot better now and it seems like I'm seeing more physical symptoms now than mental ones.
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Home remedies/over the counter help.
What you are describing is nerve pain from restless leg syndrome .
Do you kick right before you sleep/in the middle of the night?
Spasms and cramps can be relieved by over the counter cream/ointments like bengay any menthol cream.Try using a heating pad down by your feet, this will help you relax and promote circulation.(do not use heating pad anywhere near the cream/ointment can cause serious burn!) The cream on the thigh and calf and the heating pad down by your feet.
Talk to your doctor to find the root cause of the nerve pain.
H.