I am sick of being in pain, what pain relief (stronger than paracetamol) can I take when pregnant?

[princessmel]

Even if it's on precription? I'm going to the doctors again later.

I am willing to beg the gp.

Might cry to see if that helps.(not joking)

tia

Cocodomol. What's the matter?

gp told me codeine (sp?) was safe in pregnancy. ask your gp.

why are you in so much pain?

Aw, princess.
What hurts?
You can get some full strength co-codamol (much stronger than the over the counter rubbish) or dihydrocodiene. I am on dihydrocodiene atm. It gives you a break for a while though it has side effects, including extreme sleepiness and spaced out ness, but prferable to pain, yes.

And do cry - it is how you feel.

I have damaged my coccyx.
I have another thread somewhere....

It f***g hurts

It is really getting me down.

Hurts when I sneeze, laugh(rare these days), move, try and stand, roll, walk etc etc

Paracetamol is doing nothing atall.

I have hot water bottles but it's hard to keep them in position and baths at nightime.

poor you, let us know how you get on with teh gp.

have you tried stick-on heatpads? Our local pound shop does them - not as good as the posh ones from Boots (they can be a bit lumpy) but sooo much better than tablets for back pain (and this from someone with a small pharmacy int he bathroom)

codeine. or morphine. or any opiate derivative.

No anti-inflammatories (ibuprofen, diclofenac) no tramadol.

Good luck!

Thanks everyone.
They all sound so serious and scary. I don't usually take anything stronger than neurofen.

It's weird because I keep thinking maybe I should just put up with it(don't want to hurt baby) and sometimes it's not too bad. I can always feel it, but sometimes its less iykwim.
But then I try and stand etc and it's such a sharp pain. And I can't lie down all day!
Getting up of sofas and chairs is the worst.

Well I went and I didn't cry! I got a prescription for co-codamol 8mg/500mg. Only for 3 days though. She said if I don't take the max dose then they will last a lot longer. She said to try and only take 1 at a time.
Possible side effects were respiritary problems to baby and withdrawal issues

The gp was lovely although in training and called through to a different gp to check on everything! She also called the hospital and spoke to someone, I think a gynae registrar.

I have ordered a coccyx cushion from Amazon aswell. I really hope these things all help.

TheThreadPirateDavina I asked about those but she wasn't sure if they were safe to use...she didn't call through to the gp about that.

I took one tablet about 15 mins ago and am currently sitting in a non relaxing but less painful way. I hope the tablet works. Will let you know.