Pickel Juice for Muscle Cramps

Pickle Juice

For years I was in the roofing buss. Very hot work as you all know. I would get these muscle cramps that just wouldn’t go away. Doctors told me to eat lots of bananas,drink lots of Gatorade and take potassium plus salt tablets.
That doesn’twork for a diabetic. Too much sugar in the Gatorade and bananas.
Still I would get them. Till I meet an older man who was all the time eating pickles. He’s said the vinegar in the pickle juice would deliver the potassium to the muscle 10 times faster than Gatorade.
So now I go too Wally world buy a big jar of pickles. Throw them in the food processor and get all the juice I can. In a large glass I mix 3 parts water to 1.
If you get night time cramps in your legs or any cramps at all try this.
Come to find out there now selling it at Academy sports stores. Pro football players use it.

I'm surprised that the doc said to eat lots of bananas AND take potassium pills .... too much potassium in your system & cramps will be the least of your problems !!

... cp :cool:

great tip, thanks for sharing as potassium tabs and bananas don't work for me either...tried taking magneseum (sp) daily and it helped fairly well, but I don't like taking pills.

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Originally Posted by crappiepappy

I'm surprised that the doc said to eat lots of bananas AND take potassium pills .... too much potassium in your system & cramps will be the least of your problems !!

... cp :cool:

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Yep that year I went to 3 differant doctors, each one of them told me i need to eat more Bananas and drink a lot more Gatorade. I was making the stuff twice as stong to rid of these cramps I would get. I would get them all up both of my sides and in my back. I got where i didn't want to go to work in the heat. Then when i move to Reed springs i went to another doctor and the first thing he said was lets check and see if your sugar is high. I told him no way i'm a diebetic. Sure enough i was.

I know of several older folks that keeps a jar of pickle juice beside their beds so they can take a swig when a cramp hits them. They tell me there isnt anything any better.

A teaspoon of mustard works also

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:popcornApple Cider Vinegar with (Mother). Keeps the cramps from bothering you.
Wife was bothered by cramps on a daily basis and it worked for her. Tried the pickles too, but that got old
quick.

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Originally Posted by RetiredRR

:popcornApple Cider Vinegar with (Mother). Keeps the cramps from bothering you.
Wife was bothered by cramps on a daily basis and it worked for her. Tried the pickles too, but that got old
quick.

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I hear cider vinegar works for a lot of things. Try a teaspoon of it a small glass of water once. Pretty strong, not to bad if its got a little honey mix in too.

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Originally Posted by Charley41

I hear cider vinegar works for a lot of things. Try a teaspoon of it a small glass of water once. Pretty strong, not to bad if its got a little honey mix in too.

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I like it like you said.........use a tablespoon of honey as a chaser/breath freshner.

when i was a kid i used to love takin a swig of pickle juice out of the jar, i didnt want a pickle, just the juice...i remember my mom telling me "quit drinkin that stuff boy it'll dry your blood up"....i beleived her for a long time....dont know where she got that from