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Experience regular, debilitating muscle cramps often paired with fatigue or nausea. i have shown high anion gap. liver kidney #s are good. ?

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Been worked up?: Do you perhaps have McArdle's? Myotonia congenita? Both are fairly common. Just a thought.

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