Charlie Horse

I woke up with my leg twitching early Thursday morning, about 3:30. I prepared for the leg cramp, but managed to massage the charlie horse out before it went full-throttle. It hurt, but I've had worse. I laid back down & fell asleep.

The next morning I woke up with a nightmare but still remembered the leg cramp. Oddly enough, my leg didn't hurt. Until I tried to stand on it. Holy moly. It was definitely sore! But sore was all it was. And had a twitch. For two days.

Friday I crashed after work. I was exhausted; last week was an emotional, long week & this past week I was still recovering. I slept for about 3 hours (that point you can't call it a nap!). When I awoke I found my leg was stiff, the muscle refusing to contract. The spot where the Charlie Horse occurred had been sore and hurting, but now it was how affecting how I walked. From that point on I've been hurting.

Now it's been 3 1/2 days since the charlie horse and I am having trouble walking. My leg has been killing me. I can't walk like normal, or lift my foot to avoid even a thin book that fell on my floor. I've massaged it, eaten bananas for protein (even though I have eats tons in the last few months, at least 4 or 5 a week) & cheese for calcium. The muscle is stiff and sore.

At this point my leg calf still twitches and refuses to function as normal, my knee is sore (it's also the one that hit the dashboard in the car accident last year so that's not helping) and my foot is starting to hurt. I hurt from hurting.

I Googled a little bit trying to figure out how to make it better, if there are other causes, etc. I have a lower back problem that feels more like my tailbone when it hurts than my sciatica (usually if I lift something really heavy) so I was wondering if that affected it, but everything comes up with sciatica and my back isn't hurting right now, so I'm fairly certain they're not linked.

I'm just tired from being sore, exhausted from the amount of energy it currently takes to walk, and feeling rather useless since this issue with my leg won't let me get anywhere very quickly.

Has anyone else had this issue with leg cramps, where the affects last longer than they usually do? Do you have any idea how to help my leg return to normal?