So every night I eat 3 large pickles before I turn in for the evening. one night I forgot to eat my pickles and my leg started cramping. Does eating pickles really make the leg cramps stay away? I hope so, I have upped my intake to 4 large pickles now for fear of the pain I suffered!

I swim for excercise. The other day I was swimming and out of the blue got such a bad leg cramp in my right calf. It was very painful and now, 2 days later, it still aches. It is not the horrible pain I had in the pool but it still aches. 1) What can I do to prevent this from happening? and 2) what can I do not to relieve the achiness?
Thanks–

Soaking in vingar (1 cup) in the bathtub seemed to help my cramping… it is an old wives tale my grandmother told me… and it seems to work

Is it normal to be able to see your muscles twitching under your skin during an episode of leg cramps?

How will I know that a leg cramp is just a leg cramp and not a blood clot?

Does weight have anything to do with leg cramps? I seem to have more leg cramps than my less weighty friends.