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Lower leg cramping occasionally
Occasional lower leg cramping is a symptom in which there is spasm of your leg muscles. It is usually temporary and can be due to dehydration or mild electrolyte abnormalities such as low potassium and/or calcium.
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What is the definition or description of: Lower leg cramping occasionally?
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What is the best treatment for occasional lower leg cramp?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Occasional lower back ache. My butt feels like it cramps. Both legs get cramp like pain on and off in calves and feet.Occasional numbness. Causes?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Ever since I had my baby (c-section), I occasionally have cramping in lower right abdomen during bowel movement. Feels like muscle cramp in your calf?
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A 40-year old asked:
I'm suffering from night time leg cramps in the lower calf. Remedies?
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A 27-year old female asked:
For 2 wks, pms-like cramps in lower right side with back and leg pain on that side. Off & on, worse throughout day, worse when sitting. What is this?
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A 67-year old female asked:
I get occasional body and leg cramps?
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A 27-year old female asked:
Legs and lower back cramp at night ?
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I have been bleeding for 18 days now im done but feel like im gonna start again cramps pain in lower back and cramps in legs?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Im receiving sever pain in the lower right region abdomen causing pain in the lower right of my back &top of my right leg i dismissed it as cramps?
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A 57-year old male asked:
Get cramps in foot and lower legs?
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A 49-year old female asked:
Why do I always have leg cramp in e lower part during sleeping?
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A female asked:
Hi, I keep getting a cramp in my left calf when i walk for approx 10 mins and have to stop, the pain is also to the front of my lower left leg?
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A 32-year old female asked:
Sometimes during the evening i get like little electric nerve cramps in my lower back and legs it's not painful but annoying is it from being tired?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Hi, i suffer severe cramps in lower legs and chest area regularly for the past year.Can you give me an idea as to what maybe causing this? Thank you
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A 31-year old female asked:
What could be causing real sharp pains in my lower stomach? And cramping in the top part of my legs. All the time?
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A 63-year old female asked:
I had a robotic hysterectomy and sling surgery one week ago. Last two nights I have lower leg cramps keeping me from sleep?
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A 76-year old female asked:
My mum is 76 yrs old and has severe, constant pain in her right, lower leg on the outside. It is like cramp but it never goes away. ?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Occasionally I get bad leg cramps in the upper back of my leg above the knee. after a 12hr day of labor in sun all day.what causes.hurt I can't move?
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A 42-year old asked:
Pain in lower back, tingling in legs, leg spasms and muscle cramping. Could it all come from my back?
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A 61-year old female asked:
What causes muscle cramps from lower leg to hip the cramps are quite bad were toi scream?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Constant severe lower back pain and has escalated into severe leg cramps what could cause this?
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My daughter runs cross country. Her right leg - lower calf - cramps during races. She trains sufficiently and the cramping does not happen then. ?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Small, isolated cramps in lower leg. First just the right, now just the left. D-dimer and heart tests all clear. 21, active. Serious issue? Any ideas?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Im a type1 diabetic my lower leg and feet have been cramping on and off all day now, im trying to sleep and they have started again. What can I do ab?
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A 34-year old asked:
Are shin splints the same as cramps in lower leg muscles?
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A 23-year old female asked:
What is the difference between shin splints and cramps in the lower leg muscles? Or are they the same thing?
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A 33-year old male asked:
I feel pain in some nerve or vein not sure. I assume I had cramp few days back while sleeping but the pain hasnt gone since. I can feel the pain while walking. Sometimes it feels relaxing in the lower leg when I press back of my thy on the chair.
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A 48-year old female asked:
I have been having cramps throughout my body even my fingers are cramping. Also I have numbness in my lower legs and feet.
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A 20-year old female asked:
Just finished period. severe cramps in lower back radiating to back of legs. can barely stand straight. maybe fever. pain meds aren't helping.
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