Chronic stomach and back pains at 25 weeks

[NattyH]

For the past 5 days I have suffered with severe stomach and back pain. I'm only 25 weeks pregnant. I have been into the hospital's delivery suite 3 times now for checks and it seems the baby is fine. They've tested my blood, urine, temperature, done an internal speculum examination etc and can't find the cause. I suffer from mild IBS usually and so some of the docs are suggesting it could be this but I don't have any of the other IBS symptoms such as constipation, wind or diarrhoea.
The pain is unbearable and usually starts early afternoon and doesn't stop at all for hours - sometimes 12 hours. It's extremley painful and whatever position i try to get into it doesn't help. I've been given strong painkillers and Colofac and Gaviscon but nothing seems to be helping. Has anyone had anything similar and can they recommend anything please???

not had that ,but it sounds awful

i am sorry the pain is so bad

when was your last urine test?

a bath might help

have you seen an obstetrician?

when you say stomach - whereabouts exactly do you mean? Under the ribs, belly button or low abdominal? Left or right? Where in your back is the pain?

Oh Natty, how horrible for you. I went in at 23 weeks in terrible pain in my back, had scans on kidneys loads of test... turned out it was a prolapsed disc in between my L4-5 vertebrae , which i'd had nearly 2 years before. Unfortunately it got worse for me and i ended up on morphine... I ALSO had pain in my groin, which i was told was referred from my back as NOTHING turnued up on tests

the thing about pregnancy is, that, it masks all kinds of 'normal' symptoms associated with problems you may already have. i.e. I had had this back pain before but was TOTALLY different this time... Many of the midwives told me this, and 3 different consultants too. Being pregnant makes diagnostics REALLY difficult.

I know this is probably OF NO USE to you at all, and i'm rambling What i'm trying to say is , it may well still be the IBS. Its just you are experiencing it differently as you are PG. ? Dont forget, your bowl gets moved fairly significantly up into a different position as your baby grows, so perhaps this is why your symptoms differ...

Do hope you get some relief from it. oyu may find as your baby carries on growing and changing position, the pain eases a little.

Incidentally, i had to deliver early due to my problems, things improved for about 2 months post natally, then it all happened again, and boy did it feel like it used to. I'm still having terrible terrible problems with it. I'm only telling you this, as it confirmed the prolapsed disc again really.

Truly hope it improves. I'm a GI nurse, so really understand whats going on for you. Can you start some steroids at all?

Thanks for everyone's advice and messages.

The pain is all over the bump at times, but then can move above the bump, or down the sides and underneath at others and sometimes is just low down on the left. Then it spreads around to my sides and back (middle to upper back). It's very strange - esp as it tends to come on around 2pm every day and last for hours.

Went to see an osteopath this morn. they thought it a mystery too but they said my pelvis and ribs were really tight and that my uterus was over to the left so they tried to loosen me up and shift my uterus???!! Not sure i am convinced but will see. The pain is just starting up again unfortunately...