Hi Everyone
I have suffered with chronic pain for years now cause by nerve pain in my left shoulder and neck. It makes life hard and due to not tolerating medication very well i can only take prescription cocodamol daily to help me have some kind of normal life.
I am around 4 weeks pregnant and my pain has increased 10 fold and it barely responding to painkiller which i feel constantly guilty about taking anyway.
Its such early days i just feel hopelessness and despair that i cant make it 9 months like this. I cannot function and my what used to be menstrual migraines have been awful for the last two weeks too.
We have wanted to try for a baby for so long but kept putting it off even though doctors and specialists have said my medication is fine during pregnancy and they kept trying to convince me my pain my improve!! I feel guilty that on more than one occasion at this early stage i have thought we made the wrong choice :-(
I do not know anyone else with chronic pain and my family are less than supportive as they have never been through it. My husband is my rock but he is not terribly worried about me and i worry if i am this bad now what pressure will it put on him in future.
So sorry for rambling on........i just feel so alone right now