Ok so I swim really competitively and I had really bad cramp in my calf so I shouldn t move it and my calf went really hard and tense. Now it has been left for 24 hours and it is still there but not as bad and it hurts as I walk and it has left a mark! By the way I am thirteen and I am not pregnant. Oh and no one more thing I am limping constantly and my leg twinges when I walk.
When doctors hear painful swollen calf, the first thought that pops in our heads are blood clot-assuming you don't have that as your leg would be red-hot and swollen with intense pain upon squeeze, and moving your foot to your ankle- it is also more common in pregnant, obese, female, above forty years olds, on contraceptives, not a young athlete like yourself. For normal cramps from overuse, it is usually based on an electrolyte imbalance. Eating bananas, pickles, stretching, massaging, tonic water, Gatorade all have helped.