Postnatal SPD...

[peppinagiro]

Hello everyone. I'm looking for some advice and experiences of SPD that's not gone away after giving birth. I had a mild-moderate case of it while I was pregnant - really painful, stopped me sleeping, but still able to walk without crutches or anything. I had physio and acupuncture, which did help a little. It disappeared for a couple of weeks post birth, then flared up again and hasn't gone away.

It's not as bad as while I was pregnant, but I have better and worse days, and it's just annoying me now. I've tried osteopathy and physio, and both help for a couple of days but then it just comes back. I'm still bfeeding - DD is 10 months - and I've heard a lot of people say that it can linger until you stop breastfeeding? The pelvic partnership said there's no evidence for that though. I plan to let DD wean when she's ready, and I could live with the pain in the meantime, if I just knew that there was a link and there was an end in sight IYSWIM.

I feel like I'm at an impasse :( i'm ignoring it and trying to carry on as normal, do exercise, and I feel it jarring and aching. I worry I'm doing long term damage and don't know what I should be doing.

Isn't there anything I can do? I have private insurance so could maybe get a scan and see a proper specialist dr - are there any? It just feels like if this were a back problem then everyone would take it seriously and treat it, but because it's pregnancy-related there's no real research or treatment, and I'm expected to suck it up :(

When did your SPD finally go? Does anyone have any good advice?

Sorry that's a bit rambly and incoherent. A bit sleep deprived.

I only had it with DC 3/4. On crutches with dc3 but off them by 4 weeks post partum, took 18 months to be right completely. Dc4 I'm still on crutches at over a year later.
I was told by orthopaedics and rheumatology that bf wouldn't affect it.

Mine is worse around my period and the pill affects it.

Thanks. Did you do anything to rid yourself of it after DC3? I don't even know what specialism it would come under, if I did want to see a consultant - you say you saw a rheumatologist? Did they help?

Sorry to hear you're still suffering - hope it gets better soon.

I sawphysio (crap), osteopath (ok but I wasn't convinced by the acupuncture), orthopaedic surgeon and rheumatologit.

I was in a wheelchair with SPD during first pregnancy, recovered by 6months after, then couldn't walk in 2nd pregnancy either, mainly recovered but got increasing niggles from round 8 months just as I did first time round.
Have you seen an obstetric physio? My hosp had a team of them and you could get referred back to them and do exercises under their strict supervision - like a non-bouncy circuit training class with extra pelvic stuff.
It got aggravated recently for other reasons and 6 weeks of a hospital exercise class (lumped in with people with back pain, but it's essentially the same exercises) has really helped.