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Bit (well alot) embarrassing - woken twice now with immense pain in my bum

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LadyOfWassail · 20/12/2007 23:57

this morning I woke with the worst pain ever in my bum, not sure if it was my bumhole (sorry!) or anywhere from there to that 'used to be a tail' bit as it was too painful to pinpoint, but it's the second time it's happened to me. I did have the same in labour though, even after my epidural that was so bad a nurse had to give me 2 extra injections of something or another. I haven't had it since, only now I am pregnant, and when it was like it this morning I couldn't wee - whether pyschiologically (sp??) through pain or it actually stopped me. I don't think it's piles (are those what you get on your bum?) because I had a feel (sorry!) and I couldn't feel anything, and the pain did go and it doesn't hurt when I poo, and I didn't strain at all. Anyone know what it could be?
Thanks

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harman · 20/12/2007 23:58

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Krimble · 21/12/2007 00:00

Stray lego brick sorry couldn'r resist.

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LadyOfWassail · 21/12/2007 00:03

TBH it feels like I have had a massive dildo shoved up there - worse even. THen the pain goes all along to the tip of my botty crease It feels like immense pressure aswell, like I am carrying a full term baby and it's fallen into my bum area and trying to push out, but not in a needing a poo kinda way.

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harman · 21/12/2007 00:04

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pinkteddy · 21/12/2007 00:07

coccyx?? Does it hurt to sit down and get up from sitting down?

wrinklytum · 21/12/2007 00:08

How pregnant are you?Could the baby be pressing on a nerve if laid in a funny position.DS was a "back lie" apparently,so my labour pains were all in the back area.Not sure about the bum bit though!!!

Could you have trapped a nerve near your coccyx?(very bottom of spine?)

(Wrinkly clutches at straws,really she has no idea)

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LadyOfWassail · 21/12/2007 00:08

no, it's doesn't even feel like that sort of pain - it's like trapped nerve/something collapsed and pushing down type thing. It's agony beyond belief, I was crying when I had it and couldn't even move from bed.

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LadyOfWassail · 21/12/2007 00:10

I had coccxy (too late to google spelling) damage from a riding accident, it's not that, it's further round my bum but does spread that was abit. I am 5-11 weeks pregnant.

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wrinklytum · 21/12/2007 00:14

I really dunno,LOW.It sounds like nerve pain,I would go to GP and get it checked out.Good luck and poor you,it is making my eyes water just thinking about it.(

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LadyOfWassail · 21/12/2007 00:18

I reeeeally don't want to go to GP, he will want to look at my bum I just know it! I draw the line at that, bad enough knowing they shoved stuff up there when I was giving birth!

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wrinklytum · 21/12/2007 00:21

Practice nurse?

Would you fel less embarrassed by female GP?Do you have one?

Midwife?

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LadyOfWassail · 21/12/2007 00:27

anyone really! We don't have female GPs, it's a small 2 man surgery. I know it isn't piles because I had a mother funker of a pile after I gave birth and you can't mistake them! So they would be looking at my bum for no reason.

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Granny22 · 21/12/2007 01:09

I occasionally get the most awful pain in same area as you describe and in my case it is CRAMP (rectal cramp). Only thing I can pinpoint that might be the trigger is if my bum gets really cold. Has always started in bed when I am asleep, or just falling asleep and lasts for around an hour then goes away. I get some relief by sitting on a hot water bottle/wheat bag. Like any other cramp e.g. calf, if you have had an attack, you are quite likely to have another in the next day or two in the same muscle and then maybe not for months.

It is very, very painful and quite frightening the first couple of times. I remember as a child waking up with cramp in my leg and thinking it was broken as it was so sore. Cramp in your back passage is just as sore and you can't rub it or flex it in the same way you can with a leg.

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LadyOfWassail · 21/12/2007 01:13

It does sound like it, blimey Dh is going to piss himself when I say I think I have rectal cramp! I can't figure out why I would get it though... maybe lying in one position for too long? I mean all three times I have had it incl. giving birth I have been lying down.

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Haribosmum · 21/12/2007 02:53

Pain in the bum? Sorry, that'll me my dh then

gladbag · 21/12/2007 08:15

I was going to suggest that too Granny22. I occasionally get rectal cramps (sometimes to do with my period cycle, I think, and that's also how my contractions started). It is the most painful experience I've had (including giving birth ), that old rectal cramp. Feels like a squeezing clamping sensation, but is so piercingly painful that it's difficult to analyse it further. I'm afraid I just take ibuprofen, and it calms down, as Granny22 says, after about 30 - 40 minutes. If it is cramp, just to reassure you, I probably get it less that once a year now. Tis really really horrible though. HTH

loopylou6 · 21/12/2007 09:27

was very interested to see this post, my mum had a hystorectomy (sp?) a few years ago, afer the op she started having IMMENSE pain in her bum, she was in and out of the hospital with it for months and the doctors where mystified, shew as on tramadol and everything, anyway in the end she bought a tens machine and that really helped, after a while it stopped and shes been pain free for a good while, although she did say she was getting twinges again last week, but thats another post

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