Does your Dad have PVD?
Posted By: MQMT1m on 2008-10-21
In Reply to: Try this - catz
Lots of men and women in their 60s and 70s usually start having PAD, and this causes terrible cramps in the legs and sometimes arms. My husband was just diagnosed with this, and he awoke at night with the same problem. I asked him if he was getting enough potassium, but his blood work showed his potassium was fine. He started not being able to walk very far until his muscles began to ache and felt weak. Sure enough, he had some studies done and it showed he had bad circulation in his legs. But, it is also a fact, as told by my MD, that lack of potassium also causes cramps in the legs.
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