UncleEbenezer wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:A few days after my Pfizer, I've been suffering horrible cramp, which is not at all usual for me. Could be coincidence, or could be a side-effect. If the latter then I should upgrade from "slight" to "middling" side-effects!
More cramp today. This time as I walked out of Lidl this evening, with a fairly heavy backpack full of provisions. I was quite concerned for a while about making it home, but paced myself slowly and walked a shorter route than usual.
This is not something I expect at all. I wonder if I should report it?
Tangentially, a brilliant and near-instant treatment for cramp is to drink a glass of tonic water. If you get cramp whilst out and about, buy some of those little mini-cans of Schweppes that supermarkets sell, carry one with you and drink it on the spot when cramp hits. They take effect and get rid of the cramp in around 60 seconds, quite remarkable.
My GP advised me to try this years ago when I was getting serious leg muscle cramps in the night and I find tonic water works brilliantly. My GP says the quinine is the effective ingredient. He said (IIRC) that cramp is caused by a failure or corruption of the of nerve comms between muscle and brain, and quinine has been found to fix it. They don't yet understand how or why, only that it does. This certain helped me and a couple of peeps I know too. Do report back if you decide to try it out!
(Poxy spell check interfering, plus a bit of minor editing for clarity.)