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Posted 4/19/2011 7:05 AM (GMT 0)
I'm pretty sure its from tapering low on prednisone because it seems to happen a lot when I get below 20mg. Randomly if I bend my toes, especially if my foot is cold, my toes (on my left foot only) will cramp up so bad i have to sit down and squeeze them real hard. It is very painful. Anyone else experience this?
Posted 4/19/2011 7:42 AM (GMT 0)
Yes but I have always had it. I think its my tendons.
Posted 4/19/2011 9:39 AM (GMT 0)
I had cramping in my lower calves.
Posted 4/19/2011 11:16 AM (GMT 0)
Yep, I get them all the time but I've never been on pred. I increase my water intake and eat bananas and it seems to help.
Posted 4/19/2011 1:24 PM (GMT 0)
I agree with Red_34, when I get dehydrated, I get cramping in my toes. Try to drink more water and see if that helps.
Posted 4/19/2011 4:18 PM (GMT 0)
I get a cramp in the arch of my foot sometimes. I think it happens more often when I wear shoes that are not comfortable.
Posted 4/19/2011 7:44 PM (GMT 0)
YES!!!!

When on pred I get terrible foot and calf cramping. It has been happening lately and have been on 20mg of pred for a few weeks. I have to walk around to get rid of it. When this happens I try to stay hydrated eat a banana every day and eat tomato soup.

It seems to happen mostly in my E.T. toe (my second toe is extra long and looks like E.T.'s finger).
Posted 4/19/2011 8:09 PM (GMT 0)
Beth, I have a toe like this too. Love your description.
Posted 4/19/2011 8:26 PM (GMT 0)
My husband gets horrible toe cramps, but... he doesn't have UC nor is he on any meds.
He's got some issues with bunions and n inherited foot issue. I've never known anyone to get as many toe cramps - probably once or twice a week for the past 15 years he's had to get out of bed and manipulate his toes!
Posted 4/19/2011 8:44 PM (GMT 0)
I started getting lots of evening (sometime late night) calf cramping. 3-4 nights a week, sometimes more than once a night, at its worst few weeks. Mostly left leg. Then some toe/foot cramping started too. Potassium and calcium looked OK on blood chemistry. Things went into abeyance a bit, but for the past few weeks some foot cramping and one or two really bad leg cramps resumed.

I thought it was a side effect of Lialda, but it may have gotten worse when I was tapering Pred. But I know some of the cramping happened before my 1st course of Pred.

Seems sure it is one of the medications, or an electrolyte imbalance secondary to UC, or even deficiency of free iron to support muscle metabolism - but this should lend more to fatigue than cramping, and why mostly the left leg?

Still observing and thinking ... and cussing when I get a cramp.
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