Please tell me this will not last... < sob >

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I got out of a chair on Friday, was holding my dd2 (age 1) and i fell forward with the pain the shot through my back.

Lower back, no weird move. I just got up!

It was bad that evevening but i managed to bath and carry the children atc..

The next morning i got up and it was Agony, i limped till lunchtime.

It tailed off thorugh the day, was still sore but manageable. I was taking Brufen and Paracetemol.

Turning over in bed was terrible, i had to contort myself and was not comfy all night.

This morning when i got up it was ridiculous I could barely move. My pain threshhold is high. I was in tears.

Dh has only ever seen my cry once and that was during childbirth.

It has eased again thorugh the day, i can walk without limping and carry the baby and toddler. Lifting my arms up high and lifting my legs up (to climb stairs) are impossible though.

I am almost afraid to go to bed. How the heck am io going to manage the school run tomorrow? Dh was here this morning till 8 so he got the babies dressed.

Please tell me it is nothing that will last.

Apols for lengthy post

Heeeeeellppp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Please

Hmm, sounds like your back muscles have gone into spasm. You really need to see a physio to find out why, and get a (painful) session where they work on loosening them. The best thing is painkillers and HEAT - hot water bottle or wheat pack, plus you can get stick on pads that stay hot up to 8 hours from Boots and will help the symptoms. Deep heat rub as well. You need to avoid lifting wherever possible, no sudden movements - but keep mobile by walking etc or you will seize up. Sleep either on your back with pillow under your legs, or on your side with pilow between your legs.

Cant say how long it will last, but it probably take at least a few days and could be longer. If I were you I would get a private consult with a physio ASAP (costs around £30 where we are.)

I would go to the doctor asap. Even ringing OOH if needs be.
You can't be sure what it is and back pain is so horrible. If you are primary carer for small children you need to be able to carry and lift things.

hmmm. i think i'd go for ice not heat. has to be said i find it works best when i can bear it (but i hate the cold so often go for heat not ice)Try either or both for some relief.

go to GP tomorrow to check it. They can prescribe the good drugs.

Physio or chiropractor depending on your preference.

NO LIFTING BABIES AND TODDLERS! how to get round that one?

sleep? difficult one. I get knackered from waking myself up every time i try to turn over.
Best way I have found is to bend up knees and then lean to one side - letting gravity pull me over. or to pull legs up, bending at the knees, to one side and rolling all at the same time.

My back is buggered - you have my sympathies.

My back did this coughing. Sounds like spasm to me too.

In the absence of any other symptoms like numbness or tingling I would get private physio. They had me moving by the end of the session, and from the sound of it I was like you before.

Apparently it would settle by itself, but would have taken weeks. (Said by the GP, not the physio.) Private physio rather than NHS cos it is likely that by the time you get the appointment for the latter you will be better.

Lots of sympathy.

I put my back out years ago, and to this day it still plays up, the only way i slept comfortable was on my back with my legs crossed (at the ankles) and i still do this when it aches.

Def stop picking up the children, you need to rest your back, can your husband take a couple of days off to help you heal.

Def use hot and cold on your back, there are some powdered cold packs that you can get, which are very soothing.

this

Thank you!!!

I do have constant pain and tingling. It is like a TENS machine in labour.

Is that bad?

Oh god >

The twins have been ace today at helping me with the babies. The middle lot looked stunned when i burst in to tears this morning

I think i will go to the doc in the morning, limping holding the buggy.

My dh is on Duty tonight so not home till after work tomorrow. No family.

Have good friends here so may have to ask for help. I HATE doing that.

I can't imagine how people cope with back pain like this all the time. It must be hell. Like being permanantly pregnant

I have a heat bag thing. Do i alternate it with an ice pack or stick to one?

A thousand thank you's for helping me.

you can alternate, or use one or the other - depends which you find soothing. In theory the ice packs reduce swelling and inflamation.

even if you hate asking for help - you must or it will take forever to heal and it will hurt longer. No one will mind being asked. is there anyone to help with little ones? or big ones after school? just for a bit of rest?

just think. if one of your friends hurt them selves would you offer to help?

What Eccentrica said. Do ask for help.
Even if it's asking them to come to yours for coffee/play with DC's, as long as they make their own coffee
Are your older ones up for a sleepover or tea at someone else's after school?

Hope it eases soon.

Will take the wheat bag thing to bed with me. Hopefully it will help.

I will use the pillow tips too

I know what you mean Eccentrica, i would help in a second. Why is it so hard to ask for it? Bonkers.

The big ones are a huge help soi will hang on to them They have been getting me drinks and lifting the baby in and out her cot for me today. They are so good.

I am dreading the dummy in thing tonight. Ds#5 is a pain in the arse pickle at night sometimes. Please let him be good tonight >

Hope you are managing ok - I know how awful it can be!

Just use heat or ice or both - its whatever helps you personally.

I go to an osteopath when this happens to me (as it has done occasionally for the past 3 decades but only once every 3 years or so!)

The GP was no help - just said keep shuffling round and be as mobile as you can, but you should go to your's to get it checked.

The osteo has helped me understand my back better, shown me exercieses that really help keep it flexible and pain-freeand and although its £40 a time, I feel I'm worth it!! You do learn whcih movements to avoid to some extent.

You have all my sympathy as its horrid, but it will imporve - takes time though. Osteo can speed this up.