- thanks to everyone for responding. Will try the cake of soap idea and the pickles. I take my last cal/mag with my evening meal, the pill is so huge I have to swallow it with a mouthful of food, cannot do it with just water.
Another really simple thing I'm going to do is put on another layer of bedding. I have just spent a night at a friend's, and the duvet on the bed was much thicker than ours, and I did not get a twinge.
I do feel the cold a lot more since losing so much of my insulating blubber (yay!) and although my feet have not been feeling cold in bed, maybe they do get cold during the night.
I also think that spacing out the cal/mag throughout the day and adding a third one has helped but I did get cramp in both insteps during one night since starting to do this so there is more to it than that, at least for me.