Back and abdominal pain 6 months postpartum

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Hi, has anyone experienced lower back pain with pelvic abdominal pain like cramps 6 months after giving birth?. My GP has tested for everything and all come back negative. She thinks it's my body still settling down after birth. I've bottle fed from 1 month and had 3 periods since but can't seem to get rid of these aches. Aches is a better word, pain is child birth!(which was a quick 2 hr natural labour). I've had health anxiety as my mum passed away from cancer a couple of years ago and googling these symptoms has not helped!! Just wondering how long it took for everyone's aches and pains to go away. The back pain might be muscular and I've just jumped to worse case scenario 🙈

Did it get better??

I am 5.5 months postpartum and same issue. Have mild body aches in my pelvis bones, hips and legs and cramping in mower pelvis/ lower back. Dull ache not sharp. I’m assuming it’s related to postpartum but don’t remember it with my 1st. So annoying though to feel like crap 😑.

I’m glad to say that it did!
Still haven’t had any period tho. I ended up going to docs about it because it lasted so long. I was thinking it was something to do with a ovarian cyst (had this in the past) but I was went for a scan and all was clear.
Honestly think our mind plays tricks on us sometimes!
I get the odd twinge every now and again but not like before must of been all postpartum stuff, which like you, I never had with my first 🤔

Hope you’re feeling better soon 😊

Did it get better? I have the same and upset stomach.

I wanted to respond to this post.. as this is my THIRD child, I’m currently 5 months postpartum.

I have experienced these symptoms with all three pregnancies and as I’m beginning to feel them again, they seem to get worse each time.
And as I have already experienced this and did a lot of research I thought it would be helpful and comforting for me to share.
About 3 months after baby #2, I began to feel my periods, almost like I could feel my eggs dropping down the tube.. it was painful, I was bloated, I felt nauseous and had back pain. There were days I honestly didn’t even want to walk or leave the couch. I had similar symptoms with baby #1 but a lot milder, and not too long after, I was pregnant again so they quickly disappeared.

Sometimes the bloating seemed extreme. I have a pretty flat tummy so I could tell when I looked like an inflated balloon. The bloating was accompanied by pain and pressure and when I started tracking all of this, I noticed that I really had only one week a month of feeling normal.
I also started to devolop a lot of discharge. Nothing that looked or smelled abnormal.. but a good amount. Even when I would go pee afterward it looked like an egg white on the toilet paper.
I finally went to a dr who then sent me to a specialist. I had gone to the Emergency a few times as well because the pain was severe in my abdomen and I was worried.
After multiple ultrasounds and tests, it was hard for someone to actually pinpoint what was wrong. It was clear I was forming cysts and then they would rupture (the intense bloating and pain)
I also was told that during pregnancy, your varicose veins swell up, even the ones that run through your privates, and uterus. Those veins return to their normal size after giving birth but mine still appeared swollen.
Long story short, I was told to go on birth control. Birth control regulates your hormones and would help my body “pull itself” back onto some sort of cycle and that the birth control would help with the cysts devoloping.
I am NOT a big fan of birth control at all but they were right. A month after I started the pill, these symptoms faded slowly.
After about 4 months, I stopped taking the pill. I just don’t want to be on something constantly and I have never liked the other side effects birth control contributes to. Immediately, the symptoms came back.
In the end, I am now on baby #3 and going through these feelings and emotions all over again. After everything, I found that EXERCISE on a very frequent basis was the only natural way to keep these symptoms from being unbearable. I had to do walk, run, or do some form of aerobics 4-5 times a week. It really did help and change my life.
Someone has brought up endometriosis which very well may be the case but u til I can get a clear cut answer, I’ll stick to what helps.

I know the original post was made ages ago but I'm so glad I found this thread. I am also about 6 months postpartum after delivering my first baby and experiencing cramping, digestive issues, and the increase in discharge. I thought maybe it had to do with my periods returning, but I am still breastfeeding and on a low dose of birth control. I'm scheduled for a routine visit to my OB/Gyn in August but wondering if I should see if I can move it forward to see what's going on!

I posted on here last year and am now 16 months postpartum and back to normal. I am convinced it was hormonal. It took about a month or two for it to get better slowly. It peaked around 5/6 months.

So glad I found this thread. Currently almost 5 pp and have been a mess since delivery! Upset tummy, discharge, pelvic pain (like period cramping) nausea feeling, low grade fever at night. I have ultrasounds booked for next week and further blood tests, but really hoping it is going to get sorted and isn’t something very serious. It’s completely overshadowed my maternity leave so far which has made me really sad :(

Gosh I've only just has an email to notify of all these posts...it must have been going into junk. There's actually some really good advice on this thread I wish I'd read 🤦‍♀️🤣.
My DD is 6 now. Looking back at what I wrote bought back such bad memories. What a mess I was. My precious 6 months maternity leave ruined by anxiety. I have one miracle child and can't have any more so it's sad really that the help and medical advice wasn't better. No one warns you about the new mum anxiety you get and how badly you just want to be ok for your little bundle. Also, in hindsight, the enormity of what you've just put your body through doesn't really sink in. It's pushed to the limits and of course there is no way it can just spring back to pre conception! I still have the horrible piles and my back hurts a few days before a period but I think that's more perimenopause (I'm 45!). Being a woman socks but also what we've done is amazing. Give your body time to heal. It took 9 months to make a child it will take longer to get back to some sort of new norm. Obviously get checked out if worried, it's the only way I could stop my over active imagination. Just know that it does get better. Xx

I'm having exactly the same 6 months PP! Clear discharge, cramping in my stomach and pelvic area, back pain, sicky feverish feeling. No period so far.

To add to this, I found out whilst having some fertility tests that I have polycystic ovaries and just never had any symptoms other than irregular periods (hence it's not PCOS). I wonder whether this is now some of the symptoms coming out after my body has gone through the hormonal changes of having a baby. 🤔

I found this thread whilst 8 months post partum and have been experiencing stomach cramps and aches all of this time. I’m on my second baby and had nothing like this with my first. It started mainly in my left side and it seems to be worsened when to picking up my boys (SAHM to one highly sensitive toddler and one baby means I have to do it a lot). Sometimes it feels like I’m pregnant again as my nerves flicker like baby kicks. Recently it’s constant period cramps. I’ve had a few tests which have found nothing and I’m sick of feeling like this now, so I’ve asked the doctor for more help. I have no strength since the birth and find myself shaking frequently. I feel so knackered as a breastfeeding SAHM mum to two, and am carrying a huge mental load. I’m sure exercise would help me but I have no time to prioritise me. It’s frustrating and tough. Just needed a vent and crossing everything that it gets better soon. I’d like to have a third but my body is on its knees