i thought i was going to get pass one pregnancy without experiencing a charlie horse! i was successful this far too. just 2 more months to go…

but alas!! just after midnight, i was asleep and started stretching. all of a sudden, i like a charlie horse coming and i tried to stop it, by arching my toes up. don’t ask me why or how, but sometimes that helps me. anyway, it didn’t work and i was caught in the grasp of my lower right leg in extreme pain. i woke james up to help message my calf but it was so sore and so painful i couldn’t help but turn and toss and whimpered. gosh, how horrible was that.

after what seemed like a long time, i thought it had finally stopped. i moved just a bit and bam! it started again and this time, i was sorta yelling because it was killing me!! yes, it was that bad. i said frantically to james, “arch my toes! arch my toes!” because i couldn’t do it. he message my foot and calf and arched my toes right away. it helped that time and my charlie horse actually stopped. tears were coming out of the corners of my eyes from being squeezed shut so hard and i had broke out in a sweat.

i don’t want to go through it again…it’s too much. i told james i would rather go through labor. *sigh* my nurse had told me at one point that charlie horse is a result of not having enough calcium. she said the prenatal vitamins does not have enough of a dosage. it’s funny too, that this past week was the week i didn’t eat any oranges or drink any o.j. no matter what, this morning, i promptly went to costco and bought a jar of calcium supplement.