I remember one night, about maybe 10 years ago. I was working physically in a temporary job with MANY different kinds of work involved, some very strenuous, some just tedious monotony. Anyway, I had a really rough day, I worked a good solid 8 or 9 hours with a few breaks here and there AND it was HOT and I wasn't drinking very much. That night after a long hot shower I went to bed. A few hours after I fell asleep I woke up with this PAIN in my right calf. I mean PAIN. Like a locked up rockhard kind of knotted pain in my calf. My right foot was frozen in the ON position and I couldn't even hardly get out of bed to put my foot on the floor to stretch out the calf that had turned to STONE. After screaming a while and TRYING to massage out the knot I made it to the bathroom and got in the shower and let the hot water run on my calf. I used the Waterpic showerhead on the Pulse setting for quite a while and it finally relaxed. I massaged it for a while then put some Bengay on it then after the burning stopped I layed on the heating pad so I could get back to sleep.

The next day my calf really HURT AND it was all black and blue right where the knot was. I think there must have been some broken blood vesels in there. It took a few days for the pain to go away but I'll NEVER forget that. That is when I decided I'd BETTER drink more water EVERYDAY so it wouldn't happen again and it hasn't.

See, the calf was already contracted from all the running up and down stairs then on top of that all the other stuff I was doing so when the Spasm hit the already contracted muscle, well, it was Horrible. I get a headache just THINKING about this.