Cramps the story continues....

Finally got to see a doctor who repeated everything I have read on the net viz:

Can be caused by lack of salt due to excessive sweating. But as I spend my days in over air conditioned spaces, shivering rather than sweating, and as a lot of the food here is very salty this is unlikely.

Thyroid imbalance. I would feel lethargic and may put on weight. I am loosing weight (through dieting I hasten to add) and do not feel in any way lethargic.

Statins: As I have stopped taking them and the cramps continue, these are ruled out.

I’m going to a clinic this afternoon for ‘blood tests’ and to see a ‘specialist’ but will have to wait a few days for the results, in the meantime I have been prescribed Vitamin E capsules, am eating bananas to boost my potassium, drinking lots of water and attempting to locate a source of Tonic Water so that I may self medicate with quinine. Strangely all enquiries about Tonic Water or even Indian Tonic Water have been met with a complete blank. ‘Never heard of it’ is the response and have not been able to find it in shops or supermarkets. I was confidently told that Tonic water ‘is simply lime juice’ by two people here and my HB said that he had been offered 50 ml bottles of ‘Special Tonic’ by a pharmacist. The search continues as do my nightly cramps which are slowly driving me nuts.