Chemo And Leg Cramps

Chemotherapy can result in various physical side effects including cramps and pain in the muscles myalgia joints arthralgia and bones ostealgia.

Chemo and leg cramps. I didnt know that cramps were an oxy side effect. Muscle cramps may occur in healthy individuals without any apparent cause. Muscle cramps in the cancer patient.

Symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy. Using the affected leg may stretch the muscle and make it stop contracting. Certain chemotherapy targeted therapy and immunotherapy drugs.

She may try easy leg stetches before she gets out of bed each morning. Any quick movement sets it off. Chemo and muscle cramps Ive been having severe muscle cramps while trying to sleep.

I would also get cramps in my hands and feet. Loss of positional sense knowing where a body part is without looking. My wife would make me a bananna shake at night and that seemed to help.

A banana a day seems to work for the potassium and chewable calcium tablets. Cramps may also develop as a symptom of a systemic disease such as uremia. And I try to walk off the leg cramps THEN put them on a heating pad.

Once in a while I do get muscle twitches or spasms in my left leg right above my knee. Medications including chemotherapy targeted therapies immunotherapies hormone drugs and those to treat bone loss. Had a painful one two weekends ago in my left leg the sciatica side and it hurt for about a week.