I started experiencing what I can only call leg cramps a couple of months ago. It only occurs while I'm sleeping and it does wake me up. The "cramps" usually aren't painful but uncomfortable. They begin in my ankle. If feels like bones are fusing together. I usually cannot move my foot up or down. Like I said, it isn't painful but very uncomfortable. Since this has always happened, so far, while I'm sleeping; I decided to try to ignore it and go back to sleep only to find that the experience will continue and develop into a real cramp in my calf. The only thing I can do is get up and walk on it. Sometimes for 20 minutes or more. Eventually it goes away and it doesn't seen to ever happen when I'm awake. It's getting to the point that I can only get about 4 to 5 hours of sleep at night -- it's now happening almost every night.

I'm not even sure that I'm actually experiencing cramps. I don't know what this is. Do you? I am diabetic and I've had 3 DVT's over the last few years (genetic, from what the Doctors can tell).

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Male , Age: 45

Already Tried:
Banana's and vitimin E tablets