I have had muscle spasms for years and almost lived off of pain killers and muscle relaxers. About 5 years ago, I started to get regular deep tissue massages. When I say regular, I started out about twice a week. I am now down to every other week and the results have been great. I am not taking medicine and feel much better and more relaxed.

10 mg of valium works wonders for people who suffer from muscle spasms. Because nerves are involved, it stands to reason that relaxing them with valium will relax the nervous system, thus relieving the pain and spasm. I've been using them for years and they work well. Most, if not all, doctors know this, but do not like to prescribe habit forming drugs. If not get a new doctor that will.

I have severe muscle spasms in my both calves. They look like something moving under my skin, then the whole calve muscle splits in two and my legs look they are being broken. It then travels to my feet, and now my arms and shoulders, I have seen at least 8 gas and specialists with no answers. Please help. It's quite unbearable, I can no longer drive and have had to retire early.

I am 46 years and recently I am having pain in my upper back the doctor said that it is muscle spasms it is very painful expecially at nights.

I had severe spasms and pain in my thighs and legs that were literally debilitating. I began taking 1 teaspoon vinegar with 1 teaspoon honey in warm water first thing in the morning. Within 3 days I had no spasms for the first time in more than 5 years. They had begun gradually and increased to the point that I could not sleep at night and occurred during the day as well. I had tried potassium supplements, bananas and magnesium and it did not work.

I woke up one morning and my feet, my legs, my hips and shoulders all locked up, I tried everything to get out of bed, nothing seemed to work so I lay there in pain, 4 hours go by finally I pulled on the sheets to try to get up, couldn't get up' So I rolled out of bed, and trying to stand up, but no success, so I crawled over to the dresser and pushed out the drawers and finally got a hold of something and pushed myself up. While I was pushing my legs started cramping real bad, finally I called out to my brother, he came and helped me, everything in my body was locking up.

To treat my muscle spasms I take 3 Potassium and 3 Magnesium tablets a day and drink 2-3 bottles of Gatorade.

To treat my muscle spasms I drink water, eat food with potassium, magnesium, mainly water...I also reduce caffeine. Especially if you have a cold, eat liquids like chicken soup and healthy juices with extra water.

When I get an upper respiratory infection, I often get laryngeal muscle spasms. I have bronchial asthma by the way; so URI's tend to get a little too scary for me. It creates a sense of panic, and with a "chest cold" like that, then have a coughing fit further inflames my throat. (In years past, I'd tell my doctor that the tightness is in my voice box). Three times in the past several years, I've had such a spasm that required a doctor's intervention. However, like in the ER visit, they kept listening for asthma, and not paying attention my telling them it's in my throat not my chest! That time when I had this spasm, it took a couple hours for the swelling to go down. They gave me one of those breathing treatments and that helped enough where they would release me from the hospital. Now, I know what the darn episode is called, hopefully I won't stump the doctors in the future. Doctors just don't listen to what patients tell them. Now with the bronchial asthma, I use albuterol, but every time I get this, I always develop a lot of mucous in my voice box at the same time. Which still stumps the doctors. It's usually set off by an allergen of some kind.