Welcome to the Leg Cramp Site, a blog and online resource to help all of you who suffer from painful and sudden night time leg cramping, sometimes known as ‘charlie horses.’  We’re going to regularly present new ways to prevent leg cramps as well as ways to ease the pain of cramping and try to get you back on your feet and feeling better.

Leg cramps at night are a relatively common phenomenon for lots of people, and while they’re not necessarily deadly in the traditional sense, they do tend to take a toll on sufferers through lost sleep, increasing anxiety about sleep, and increasing stress on the body due to both pain and the uncertainty related to when they’ll strike.  Sudden leg cramps can strike just about anyone at any time and can sometimes be a symptom of a more serious underlying health condition.

This blog is a personal project as well.  I have suffered from night time leg cramps so bad that I’ve had to call out of work and use a cane to hobble around the house for a day or two after they’ve hit me.  I have, quite literally, been afraid to fall asleep some nights simply because I didn’t want to be hit with that stabbing, clenching pain in my calf ever again.  I’ve changed a few things in my lifestyle that seems to have helped, though I’ve had some close calls.  I hope to help and inform others about what they might be able to do to help prevent and avoid their own leg cramps in the future.