I’ve had a very stressful week/ day so I’ve been anticipating my anxiety to spike a bit. 

I’m on a birth control pill so I’m always paranoid about blood clots. Unfortunately I also get leg cramps often. 

Today I was driving around running errands and I fell my muscle tighten in my calf (the leg I drive with). It lasted the entire day, not painful mostly just irritating. I took a warm bath and it helped a bit, I honestly wasn’t thinking about it much so I don’t think the discomfort was bad. 

Now trying to sleep, it keeps getting really tight. When I stretch it out/ walk around the pain isn’t constantly getting worse, so that tells me it’s a cramp, not a blood clot. There’s no heat or swelling, just from looking at my legs there’s no difference. 

The pain comes and goes completely randomly, but it’s in the same spot: back off my lower leg. I took Tylenol, stretched, walked around a bit, and now I have my leg resting on a heating pad. 

I hate this feeling of KNOWING that my anxiety was going to get worse due to my stressful week and yet still struggling to reassure myself. 


Reasons it could be a blood clot:
- Discomfort in one spot in calf
- Birth control

Reasons it could be a cramp:
- Stretching doesn’t make it worse
- No swelling/ redness/ heat
- It’s always a cramp
- it’s the foot I drive with
- anxiety (according to Google) can cause leg muscle pain
- I haven’t been sleeping well/ been restless