Starts in my foot and my toes go crazy. Pain is all the way up my leg. Pain bad enough I'm crying and and want to throw up. It lasts about 30 min. Thats 30 min of me suddenly crying and grabbing onto something then it slacking off. It feels like someone is slowing trying to break my foot.

Had blood work done Wednesday and everything was normal.

http://www.hammernutrition.com/products/endurolytes.elt.html?navcat=fuels-energy-drinks

This is what I use, when i get cramps.

Drinking gaterade now.

Sounds like a mineral deficiency. Try bananas and oranges for potassium. Be careful-too much is not good.[img]http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/imgETA Junk will shoot back;-)]

I get some bad cramps at night sometimes, but it's usually after being dehydrated during the day.

You'd probably do better with the calories. Even if you believe that electrolyte deficiency causes cramping, Endurolytes suck. 8oz of Gatorade mixed from powder provides ~ twice the sodium and potassium of 3 Endurolyte tablets. About 6 years ago, Hammer cut the electrolyte dose in each tablet in about half - price stayed the same though. I haven't tried a Hammer product I like yet. Heed is vomitous and Hammer gels aren't much better.

OP - are you getting exercise-related cramping or just random muscle spasms?

This exact thing happens to my wife on occasion. Cramping in the foot to the point of her whining in agony. One question I have is are you on birth control? If so what kind?

Usually the pill helps retain potassium. Whether its in the tissue or the blood I dont know. Maybe an excess of potassium could cause an issue with cramping? Darktide, ever heard anything like this?

Drink more water or koolaid.

And, OP, I learned a trick years ago to stopping foot cramps in progress.

Foot cramps seem to be a biofeedback loop. Your mind tells a foot muscle to contract, which causes a sensation that's communicated to your mind, triggering another message to contract, etc. Just like feedback hum in a microphone.

So, the trick is to break that loop by sending an overriding message from somewhere else.

And, for some reason, pinching the area between your upper lip and your nose accomplishes just that.

So the next time your foot starts to cramp up, pinch that area of skin right under your nose as hard as you can. After a few seconds, the foot cramp should start to gradually diminish.

(You can google this to see that I'm not just making it up.)

Cool, thanks for the insight.