# I pit leg cramps

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 1, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979 "2015-07-01T19:52:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979/21 "2015-07-06T04:41:01Z")

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My wife gets these horribly. She’s in great athletic shape especially when you consider she’s close to pushing 60. But every other night she get’s terrible leg cramps. And she’s tried everything too.

Except soap. Doll refuses because it’s an old wives tale. I say, what can it hurt? Soap is cheap.

Have any of you tried the soap under the sheets trick?

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979/22 "2015-07-06T05:58:59Z")

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Okay, I don’t get these normally. But this morning I woke up in agony. I see that the thread is a few days old but today is the first day I noticed it. Spooky. I attribute it to fatigue from wading the river for the first time in awhile but it wasn’t _that_ hard. Still wobbly.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979/23 "2015-07-06T13:40:42Z")

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Soap under the sheets? I’ve never heard of that.

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979/24 "2015-07-06T15:40:45Z")

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> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> Soap under the sheets? I’ve never heard of that.

It’s an old wives remedy, but some people [swear](http://amarillo.com/stories/090308/fea_feat3.shtml#.VZqfwlJirfY) by it.

I figure it’s simple/cheap enough to try. [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/legcramp.asp) is undetermined about it.

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**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-leg-cramps/723979/25 "2015-07-06T21:59:04Z")

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Statins made mine go from a once- or twice-a-month misery to a nightly agonyfest which limited me to about 4 hours sleep per night. Quit taking them, and about two weeks later, no more cramps. (Well, to be honest, I got a calf cramp once and walking around fixed it.)  
Fuck statins and their associated culture.  
Fuck leg cramps even more.

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