Dear Aisha Azar,
In addition to my resident role as sassy male, I am also pretty familiar with this problem, having suffered it myself, as did my father. The answer is most likely magnesium deficiency, and very unlikely to be sodium, which most people get too much of, or calcium, which is supplemented in everything these days. Magnesium, however, is a common deficiency in the American diet, because of the overprocessing of foods.
The second choice of possible deficiencies is potassium, but as potassium is plentiful in a wide variety of foods- bananas, orange juice, potatoes, etc, it's more likely to be magnesium.
You can get a bottle of magnesium tablets at any major grocery store or drug store. In the common strength tablets, it takes 2 a day to get close to the RDA.
I'm telling you straight, Aisha Azar, and you will know within several days of trying the magnesium supplementation if that is the problem or not. You can't overdose at two tablets a day, either. Good luck, I know how excruciating it is to wake up with your calf muscles or hamstrings tying themselves into knots.
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