weird leg cramps and pains that came back??

earlier this year, when my body started feeling really bad, I was dealing with leg pains that lasted for over 2 months.

every part of my leg was affected. stabbing cramps in my foot (mainly in the arch or on top), calf muscle cramping, but it feels tight more than cramped. sometimes it hurts. stabbing shin pains. throbbing sensations in my knee, and stabbing pains behind it. thigh soreness, and a weird feeling when I press on the inner thigh, and pain in my groin kind of near where the major veins were. most of the pain is in my left leg, but I feel the groin pain on both sides, and my calf feels slightly cramped on my right side.

I experienced this pain for about two months. it went away for the most part, for about a month, but has come back and is scaring me again. I thought it was a blood clot (like DVT) the first time. but as far as I know, a DVT doesn't just resolve itself, and it would've killed me instead of bothering me for most of this year, so I'm trying to believe it's not a clot...

I do have weird chest pains/discomfort though, but they've been come-and-go for a while anyway. not sure if they're related to this (in the form of a pulmonary embolism) or just the same old things I've felt for months. it feels like my chest is empty and heavy at the same time.

unfortunately, I'm kind of accidentally pregnant and while I'll be dealing with that in a couple of weeks (I don't ever want children and can't afford to have one, anyway), I'm worried the hormone changes and stuff have affected me. these problems started again after I became pregnant. I know blood clots are more prevalent in pregnant people, but the pain feels like it did the last time, so if it isn't a clot, what could it be??

I'm still dealing with a lot of the 'disseminated' lyme symptoms like paresthesias, headaches, fatigue, brain fog, vision problems and pain all throughout my body. stabbing and shooting pains, and numbness in my left hand and sometimes foot. I don't know if the low-grade fevers and severe fatigue are caused or exacerbated by pregnancy, instead of solely lyme. I hate this and I can't get even a regular doctor until I'm through with the unwanted pregnancy stuff.

anyway, I don't understand why I am having these pains, and when I had them before, several doctors dismissed my concerns or performed half-hearted physical exams. they dismissed it as muscle cramps. I had the pains for over two months. I don't think most people have cramps that long, especially 'cramps' that are throughout your entire foot and leg and involve stabbing, shooting, and throbbing. does anyone else experience this kind of discomfort due to lyme, or is it just me and some other kind of health problem?

a d dimer would be the best test for a blood clot. you can ask your doctor for that test.

the first time it happened, I read about DVT and the d dimer test and a lot of other things, and was in contact with a few people who experienced DVT and PE.

I'm having pain in both legs (thigh pain mostly today) so it's probably not a blood clot. I don't have a regular doctor yet and I can't do that kind of stuff until after this pregnancy thing is taken care of (we saved enough money finally, just need to make an appointment). they're just weird, unsettling pains.

since my boyfriend moved here, we've been taking walks several times a week (our little route is .8 of a mile, with a lot of hills!!) and it actually helped a lot with my legs, horrible headaches and stuff. my legs don't really get sore after a walk anymore and it feels nice.

I know fevers are a pregnancy thing, they were really alarming but I haven't had them or the gross nausea for a few days now, so I hope I'm done with that.

I was treated for lyme for the normal 28 days, doxycycline, and it was about ten months ago, actually. I noticed the bullseye rash in early june of last year, went to a clinic and was told it was an 'infected bug bite' and was given cephalexin for a month.

it didn't get better and I went back, saw another doctor, and they told me it was definitely lyme and 'what the heck was the other doctor thinking' so my 'proper' treatment was delayed by a good month.

I felt better after the treatment but started having brain fog and dissociation in august later. it was intermittent then, but now it's nearly 24/7.

I didn't start having major problems aside from the dissociation until after I had chest trauma on christmas (I went to the hospital twice, and saw my cardiologist and had a lot of stuff done; tests, echocardiogram, ekgs, holter monitor, etc. and even had chest x-rays??), and then things started going downhill. the leg pain, the weird chest pain (I was worried it was a gallbladder issue, but it could also be like, pericarditis, because of the location of the pain) and then headaches, numbness/tingling/parethesias, worse and worse brain fog, irritability, trouble with words, memory and concentration, palpitations... :( it's scary.

I looked co-infections a lot but never thought they applied to me, the symptoms just weren't anything I was dealing with... totally possible I was reading the wrong things, or the symptoms were in line with what I know about lyme.

I was never checked for co-infections. I was one of the people who thought lyme would just go away, but I started reading about it after beginning the standard treatment.

since I'm not planning on keeping the pregnancy (I'm about six or seven weeks now?? getting it taken care of asap), I'm not particularly worried about the safety of whatever's growing inside of me. of course, I'm not about to do anything that would put my life at risk moreso than it already is.

I don't even have a regular, primary doctor. I have insurance via my parents, but can't deal with employment (not only due to this pain but anxiety, PTSD and BPD) and my income comes from my etsy shop. co-pays went up and I just don't have $20 to spare on every doctor's appointment.

after dealing with an abusive relationship throughout my teenage years and with PTSD from that, and hospital stays (both psychiatric and heart related), therapy, medications, my heart surgery, having to drop out of school... I'm turning 21 this august and I don't feel like an adult, and I feel like I can't handle this kind of stuff. I'm scared!!!! I'm not ready for this!!! as soon as my life started getting better, I got bit by a stupid tick and I feel worse than ever. I'd take the worst of my PTSD over this any day.