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PMR Diet: Foods to eat and avoid
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Aug 17, 2025 | Replies (133)Comment receiving replies
Wonder of popping a 1 mg melatonin to help me sleep in detrimental to my PMR? I do get leg cramps around 3 am
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I believe that magnesium is related more to leg cramps than melatonin.
When I was on a high dose (60 mg) of Prednisone, I would awake with leg cramps and occasionally, my hands would cramp. I started taking a potassium supplement. The cramps eventually stopped, as I tapered down.
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I have GCA and PMR. I was on a daily dose of prednisone higher than 40 mg per day for 12 weeks last year. I had really bad insomnia during that time, so I took 5 mg of time released melatonin. It helped me get more sleep, and didn't seem to do any harm, other than making me feel groggy during the day. But I was feeling groggy anyway from the insomnia. Once I got down to 40 mg per day I started sleeping ok.