Severe Night Cramps? Think Asparagus Allergy

 

I’m turning into quite an old man and had never had night cramps before, but they have been occurring more and frequently and sometimes of a very trying severity.  What happens is that most of the time one wakes up and stretches one’s legs a bit, and the cramps lock the muscles into place, and the only mitigation for this is to somehow hop out of bed and work the muscles through which relieves the cramping.  A little bit of caffeine also seems to prevent very severe reoccurrences throughout the night.

I was trying to figure out whether these Night Cramp Attacks could be correlated  to anything in my diet and I finally figured it out when my dinner of frozen “Premium Stir Fry Vegetables with Asparagus” for once had more than just a token amount asparagus fragments – there was an actual complete and entire juicy stalk, though wooden at the root end, but still very delicious.  Well, that night it felt as though I would almost die.  The cramps were generalized over the entire legs with both the push muscles and the pull muscles entirely locked up and fighting each other in a tug-a-war of painful spasms.  I tried to exercise out the cramps, and while it slowly had its beneficial effect, well, I lost some sleep that night.  But this time I was able to deduce the correlation.  That asparagus  stalk!

I stopped eating asparagus for a week and had no further night cramping.  I thought of my recent history with asparagus, and that correlates to.  The frozen  Premium Vegetables with Asparagus is very popular at the local super market, and so they occasionally exhaust all of their supplies, and that accounts for those periods when I would be free of night cramps.

I looked on line and there is nothing anywhere that poses the possibility that Night Cramps can be an allergic reaction to asparagus.  So, anyway, let this be my contribution to Medical Science.  It is not the cure for cancer, but one must start somewhere.