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I have a weak, buckling leg after I have spent a short time on it. Is this spasticity? Is there anything that I can take for this?


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Jam

i am no doctor...but spasticity is more like a muscle tightness/spasm..

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doesn't sound like spasticity to me. when i had the buckling knee thing it was usually vitamin b12 that fixed it. i changed my diet drastically a few years ago and now i don't get weak kneed unless i am really exerting myself physically for a good long time. your problem might not be dietary, but if you don't already do so, you could try a good b100 complex for a week and see what happens. i've included my signature links to nutrition info for ms patients. HTH!

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my approach: no meds so far - just balanced whole foods (partial 'paleo', much less outright elimination), science, supplements, & bloodwork
my regimen - www.thisisms.com/ftopict-2489.html
www.whfoods.com, www.nutritiondata.com

antibiotics fixed it for me

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Had ms for over 19 years now.

Thanks for the reples.

I will try the vit. B.

Robbie, I need to ask what antibiotics were you on?


JAM

hey jam if you try the b100 complex, a good shot of magnesium can help things work even better. that means either *dark* leafy greens every day (magnesium is what makes chlorophyll green) or, find a magnesium citrate supplement, 250mg, and take one or two of those each day. there's a lot more than these that you can do in terms of nutrition for your ms ttfn!

I had my leg, actually my knee giving out on me. A long stride or going up stairs and it would just give out. Doc told to get one of those black stretchy knee braces. Well, I did, and it worked. As for the spasms? EVERY NIGHT! When I wake up in the morning, thats how I wake up, with my calfs cramping. However, since I started the asprin therapy, I would have to say the cramping has been cut by 50%

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lyon, what's your zinc level?

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I started out on one 325mg asprin a day for a month. Then I went to three 325mg (975mg total). I just use the generic grocery store brand. Been doin it now for three to four months.


As far as driving, been there done that. Driving down the road, I caught a "fatboy cramp", ya know, the cramp undernieth your rib cage! I fought it for about two miles and said SH!T......wasn't going away, but rather getting worse. So, I pulled off the side of the road, got out of my truck, walked around to the passsenger side and layed out on the ground to stretch out the ribcage. I held my arms up like I was working undernieth my truck so people didnt stop!

I have tried bananas,lots of them to the point of constipation. They didnt make a bit of difference. Tried taken potassium and zinc, but they made my stomache upset.

I wasn't looking to get cramp relief from asprin, only energy; the cramp relief was only a pleseant side effect.

Also note this... other things that have improved: Brain fog from daily to almost never! Energy, not a boost of it. I am not "giving out" during the middle of my shift, and wondering how I will make the rest of the day, much less the drive home. And eyesite. I would say the improvement has been about 50%. I used to feel like I had strings tied to the back of my eyeballs and some sumo wrestler was pulling them back into my head. That has completely stopped.

Is it the asprin? I dunno. I sure as hell believe it is. Yet how can something so simple do so much?

if i take 100 units zinc at once, i feel sick to my stomach, but my doc had said i had to take 100 per day, so i bought pills with 50 units, and took them with meals. it was fine then. i also take potassium, 600 units, with no trouble.

i would tend to suggest magnesium citrate (erm, should not be any fear of constipation there) for spasm, and potassium (the bananas) helps magnesium do its job. a b100 complex in the mix would also help - the B6 increases your magnesium retention.

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and yes, lyon - knowing your zinc level does require a blood sample. don't be a wuss it's your health. i used to be a needlephobe too, suck it up.

you need to aim for 18.2umol/L zinc in your blood. your daily supplement level depends on what point you are starting from. couldn't hurt to take 15mg zinc per day, if you insist on being a suckypants and flying blind.