Do other Mum's ache all the time?

[Anenome]

Is it normal if you're a busy Mum of 2 under to ache all the time? I am 38 so not a spring chicken....but even an early night doesn't stop me aching...back..neck..shoulder...knees...
wrists.

I dont have any health probs that I know of..not overweight, DH is working abroad and I look after DD aged 2 all day and my elder DD is 6 and in school...at night I work from home, so long hours at the comp.

I walk long distances to keep fit...around 2 to 4 miles a day...is it just part of being a tired Mum? Or should I visit the doc? Its making me grumpy and doing every day things like carrying the younger one or shopping...is becoming a nightmare...

I do take painkillers now and then but dont like to take them lots...just over the counter things.

oops, meant achey

I'm not sure if Lupus (mine is the SLE variety) comes with standard aches and pains, as it is good at mimicking other illnesses. Mine were very much like RA pains, in that they were worse first thing in the morning, symmetrical and came with swelling on my affected joints. Initially the pains were in my joints, but I also got some muscular ones as things progressed. That does sound different to yours, spinsugar, so that's good! If you are always cold, you could try asking your doctor to test you for Raynauds. I don't know much about that, but I think it involves very cold extremities - often to the point of blueness. I don't have that. I do get cold, but not like that. Once the weather gets colder I resort to longjohns as I get a permanently cold bum - dh and I refer to it as my luparse.

Canadiangirl, I used to get pins and needles a lot but these were put down to migraine. That was years ago and I don't think I had lupus back then. That was in my twenties. In my teens I had what were called cartilege pains, which were then put down to my hyper-extending joints. Mainly it just got me out of cross-country!

I did read today (in a back-copy of Prima magazine, that was kicking around at the soft play) that if you are under 50, your periods have changed but not stopped and you are getting more aches and pains than you used to, you might be perimenopausal. Always something to look forward to, eh?

Anenome I felt just like that a year ago. I couldnt stand straight when getting out of bed, I was knackered if I was on the floor and tried to get up, I had weak arms and could hardly lift/hold my 1yr old.

I went to my GP he did various blood tests, I was a bit anaemic so continued taking pregnacare vitamins. And by golly it improved!

I was basically run down. (I'm 41.)

Hope its as simple as that for you. But go have blood tests to see.

Thanks always

Hi zen1,
I didn't know that BF women are recommended (by the UK government) to be taking vit D supplements of 10mcg once daily
GP advised me to do this when I went with my symptoms.
All to do with the calcium /vit D balance. Your calcium reserves become depleted - hence the achiness. Within a couple of weeks of taking it I could move at night.

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