[Shelburne] In an extended interview with ESPN this week, Peterson said that a new round of bloodwork and other tests after the college basketball season led his doctors to conclude that his use of high doses of creatine created the condition.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48710416/darryn-peterson-says-high-doses-creatine-led-cramping
One of the top prospects in this year’s NBA draft spent much of his freshman season at Kansas trying to solve mysterious and sometimes debilitating cramping. But in an extended interview with ESPN this week, Peterson said that a new round of bloodwork and other tests after the college basketball season led his doctors to conclude that his use of high doses of creatine created the condition.
Peterson, who is ranked as the No. 2 prospect available in next month’s draft by ESPN’s Jeremy Woo, said his issues started last year with a scary episode after Kansas coach Bill Self’s annual weeklong boot camp in September that sent him to the hospital in an ambulance.
First his legs started cramping. Then his stomach, back, arms and hands. Eventually his whole body was cramping.
“I made it to the training room and just started begging them to call 911,” he said. “They were trying to get a vein to get me the IV, get me back hydrated. But I was cramping so hard they couldn’t get a vein.
“I thought I was going to die on the training table that day.”
Peterson says he’s starting to feel like himself again now that he has an explanation for what caused his issues with cramping. He’s been training for the NBA combine and draft in Los Angeles and hasn’t had any issues since he’s stopped taking a creatine supplement.