Weird all over shooting pains that come and go

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Bear with me here - I could be overthinking this as I do have history of health anxiety (due to mums very painful cancer death).

My last period I passed some giant clots , I mean I actually FELT them leaving my body as though I'm birthing a placenta almost (ok maybe slight exaggeration) but there about as big as three fingers put together each time.

Since then it's been about a week I've finished my period and I am just having the weirdest shooting pains kind of like electric shocks all over my body that come for a few seconds and go. Sometimes my arm or my leg will hurt a lot and at other times they'll be fine. The pain is sharp in my feet in particular.

I also dropped something heavy on the roof of my foot recently and I'm terrified that I've permenantly damaged a nerve and will need to have my leg amputated. I read a story once about a woman that dropped something heavy on her foot and then had to have her leg amputated due to unbearable pain.

Please reassure me ! I really need to go to the gp I know and get my bloods done but just stressed out and overthinking tonight.

I’d had weird shooting pains and pins & needles and it turned out to be a vitamin D deficiency, go and see your GP and they should do you a blood test.

Foot - don’t worry, it’ll be fine, just bruising I’m sure … the amputated foot story sounds like an urban legend
clots - could you have been pregnant? I’d speak to your Gp about that just because it’s a bit unusual
pains - I get this with fibromyalgia, it’s perhaps just nerve pain, have you got a sore back, sometimes if your back is sore it can trigger nerves?! ake an appointment, maybe a double appt as you’ve got a few issues, and talk about your health anxiety too

Thank you so much for the replies. I've just made an appointment with my gp. I'm actually having vitamin d supplements and b12 as well so I don't know if I'm deficient but I guess the bloods will show that.
The health anxiety kind of comes and goes , I try to control it best I can , I am a lot better now. I did go to see my gp about it at the beginning and they gave me propranolol when it was out of control but I'm not on them now.

Clots - no I had a pregnancy test because I went to the a&e.

The foot story being an urban legend - I don't think it was, it was a real life account by someone in a book/magazine but I can't remember the source now. It just stuck with me because I'm so clumsy I'm always dropping things!

@chunkyBoo no my back is fine, it's mainly in my hands, feet and legs. Also some weird tingling cold sensations in my face. I did get this at the height of my anxiety too but I'm not anxious now I feel ok.

Are you peri menopausal by any chance as that causes pins and needles sometimes

Your foot will be fine. I have dropped all sorts of things on my feet, including having a 2000lb horse land from a height with my foot and leg breaking the fall as I got stuck under her. Fine! Didn’t even break a bone.

Do get your vitamin levels checked, however, for B12 specifically, you need to stop taking the supplements as they will mask any deficiency. Your tests will read normally, because it’s measuring what’s in your blood and washing out in urine and not what your body is actually processing.

I do think this is likely health anxiety though. I have random pains all the time (I also have cancer!) and I don’t really notice them that much. If you’re on high alert, you will register every little normal pain as something sinister.

@chunkyBoo possibly, I'm 41 so yes possibly

@mindutopia oh I'm sorry to hear you have cancer. Are the random pains cancer related ?

I have an underactive thyroid and when it's a bit out of sync one of the symptoms is random aches and pains. It can affect periods too. Usually I'd have to up the dose of eltroxin for a while and it settles again. It might be worth getting bloods done.