I am now in my 157th night after total knee replacement surgery being woken for the third time in three hours by muscle cramps. I get them every 1-2 hours all night. I have to get up and walk around until they stop.
Health professionals just shrug their shoulders and say they will go away but I am exhausted through lack of sleep. I am having extra salt, and water, now trying magnesium all to no avail. I cannot have quinine because it will interact with the amitriptyline I am taking to cope with the sciatica also resulting from the operation.
"Knee cramps after tkr"
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