Creatine to cause cramp?
I was reading up on a post made by health24.com which suggests that creatine may cause cramp..
Cramp is a tight intense pain that is common in leg muscles and is caused when a muscle contracts and doesn’t relax. Cramps are usually temporary and doesn’t normally lead to serious muscle problems. Some factors that may cause cramp are; poor fitness, exercising at high work loads (overlifting), too little stretching before workouts and creatine (reported by atheletes).
If you do get cramp and it’s severe or occurs regularly or fails to improve with simple treatment, you need to see a doctor.
20061230 6:40 pm
Stretching before workouts has not been shown to reduce cramping. Some studies in fact have shown that stretching before workouts increase risks of cramps and injury.
20070126 2:22 am
Dihydration can also cause cramping. The use of creatine dihydrates, so you must drink plenty of water.
20080309 8:06 pm
I thought a lack of sodium was one of the main causes of cramp.
Maybe creatine stops the body metabolizing sodium. I don’t think so though, I don’t think creatine is the cause or even makes it more likely. I’ve never had any problem during exercise with creatine more than wothout.
20080623 10:40 am
All the scientific reports I’ve read say there is no evidence of creatine causing cramps. However, everytime I’ve used creatine I have experienced an increase in cramps (some extremely painful). This occurs a lot more with monohydrate than other kinds. Also I have a number of friends and family members who have had the same experience. I guess you can’t say for sure that it was the creatine causing it as I may have been dehydrated and was exercising intensely, but it does seem like a huge coincidence. I read that creatine draws water to it in the body and has a poor absorption rate. I was wondering whether the creatine that doesn’t get into the muscle draws water away from the muscle thus dehydrating it and causing cramps. Just a thought.
20081205 3:41 am
complex thought
20090605 6:50 am
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20090611 4:27 pm
I took creatine and got bad charley horses. I can’t contribute this to anything but the creatine as I hardly ever get them except when taking the creatine. I have heard you need to drink a lot of water to prevent the cramps.
20091102 4:35 pm
Hi
One of creatines main benifits is that it lets your train longer and harder before your muscles become exahusted. Thus you can get extra muscle gains. As you list overtraining/overlifting as a cause of cramps it seems likely that creatine simply creates the ability for people to train longer icreasing the chances of overtraining and thus give themselves cramps.
20100114 10:57 pm
Count me down as someone who gets serious, disabling cramps from creatine. Increasing water intake does nothing. The cramps do not require physical exercise to occur – the occur during every day life.
Anyone who says the cramps don’t exist can stuff it. They are there, at least for me, are unmistakeable and have occur every time I have tried it – at least 10 times, over the years. I keep thinking that maybe the cramps are a reaction to creatine insufficiency.
I have yet to see a study that included ‘normal’ people, as opposed to members of collegiate athletic teams or other high fitness groups and creatine. It may be that there is a difference there. But, for whatever reason, don’t doubt the cramps if you have them: plenty of other people experience them too, and they are unmistakeably due to the creatine.