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I had the worst time sleeping last night. I went to bed shortly after 11 and fell asleep pretty quickly. A fairly deep sleep at that. And then around 130 or 2, I was suddenly *almost* awake, and while it hadn't happened yet, I knew that I was about to have a muscle cramp in my leg. I snapped awake and about 5 seconds leter it hit me and for about a minute- but what seemed like hours- I was in agony. Any way I moved, it just seemed to get worse. I didn't know what to do and all I could think was whether I tried to work it out or not, somehow I was going to end up with muscle damage. (Yeah, I was awake but I was in pain and not thinking completely clearly.) I felt the spot of the cramp- it's so weird to feel this one spot on my calf just pulled into a knot. I massaged it a little...no effect. I tried straightening out my leg....that only made it worse. I bent my knee to pull my foot closer to me...that made it worse again. I straightened it out a little....that didn't help but didn't make it worse. Then I bent it again and for a few seconds, it didn't do anything, but I finally felt the cramp releasing...and it took it's sweet time letting go, but it finally did.

It didn't happen again, but I kept waking up on and off all night, every hour or so. I woke up this morning, and my leg still hurts. Not unbearably, but when I walk, it feels like my left calf muscle is...I don't know...shorter? than the right, and it feels like I have a really really really bad bruise, or like I'd just been kicked really hard square in the calf...you know that dull combination of pain and pressure?

I'm trying to stretch it out, just a little here and there hoping that will help. That never happened to me before and damn, I hope it never happens again.