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Since I was a child, I have suffered from severe cramps in my legs and torso- and I mean severe- a cramp in the back of my thigh would literally pull my ankle up to my bum, and a cramp in the torso would mean hanging from a doorframe or similar to stretch for 15-30 minutes, depending on severity. A cruel and agonising affliction, especially for a child. Back then the only remedy available was salt tablets, but they never worked for me. I know the cramp was exacerbated by hard physical labor and hot weather, but they still happened regardless.
It has only been relatively recently that I discovered magnesium tablets-two tablets, twice or thrice a week would hold the cramps at bay, but they still came occasionally after a full day of swinging a sledgehammer, mustering on the motorbike, or running up and down the shearing board in 38-plus temps, or with inactivity in cold weather.
Now I have inadvertently found a cure, at least for myself....Pink rock salt! Since I have been using the pink salt from the stockfeed shop I have not had one cramp, despite cutting out the magnesium tablets. (I only took them when I remembered).
I am putting this down to the magnesium and/or other minerals in the rock salt.
It has only been relatively recently that I discovered magnesium tablets-two tablets, twice or thrice a week would hold the cramps at bay, but they still came occasionally after a full day of swinging a sledgehammer, mustering on the motorbike, or running up and down the shearing board in 38-plus temps, or with inactivity in cold weather.
Now I have inadvertently found a cure, at least for myself....Pink rock salt! Since I have been using the pink salt from the stockfeed shop I have not had one cramp, despite cutting out the magnesium tablets. (I only took them when I remembered).
I am putting this down to the magnesium and/or other minerals in the rock salt.