I'm currently 29 weeks pregnant and have had quite a hard time so far this pregnancy so realise that my health anxiety has probably been set off and that I'm working myself up.
But for the first 22-23 weeks of pregnancy I had dry hyperemesis so was basically house bound the entire time, couldn't work, couldn't get up and walk about much, just stayed at home trying to survive the crippling nausea.
Diet was atrocious. The only foods that didn't make the nausea worse were carbs like white toast or crackers, things like that. I already had a BMI of 31 going into the pregnancy so wasn't exactly at the peak of my fitness before but things have obviously only gotten worse since being housebound.
Started to feel better around 23 weeks, did light movement, out and about with my DS but nothing strenuous. 27 weeks, diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes which is really what has tipped me over the edge in terms of health anxiety.
So for the last couple of weeks I've been going on walks, only 10- 20 mins or so at a time after meals to help lower blood sugars and have discovered that ... I can't walk!
No more than 60 seconds into walking briskly my lower legs sort of seize up and my calves feel like a mild cramp or like they are burning/itching.
The pain isn't so bad that I have to stop walking but it definitely slows me down and is very uncomfortable to push through. The thing is, as soon as I get home and stop walking all the pain and symptoms go away and there is no muscle ache the day after like you would get when you've first started working out.
Of course I couldn't resist googling it which was the worst idea as now I'm worrying I have vascular disease as the symptoms are so similar. I was thinking of ringing the GP this morning to ask about it but I'm not sure if I'm just being overly anxious and perhaps this is just a thing that happens in pregnancy.
AIBU to ring the GP?