In absolute agony

[Sesamechick]

Hi

Hoping someone can help because I'm losing my mind.
My baby is now 1 and since giving birth, I have developed this pain in my left hip/pelvis which radiats all the way down my left leg..at first it wasn't terrible and I thought it was from sleeping on the sofa (I moved downstairs with baby so nights would disturb my other kids and husband as they all had work/school/college etc) but as time has gone on, it has gotten worse. I'm a left side sleeper and I'm unable to lie on my left side. It used to only be uncomfortable when I would lay on left side but now it's ALL the time. My legs throb, they spasm and it's an awful awful pain, it wakes me up at night. The only way I can describe it is that it feels like my hip is twisted/sprained?! Sometimes it feels like sciatica nerve but it's so much more with the spasms.
I take Ibuprofen/Nurofren when I can but not often as I'm exclusively BF.
Sounds silly but I haven't had a chance to see GP but I can't handle the pain anymore. I'm in agony. It's so painful. I feel it when I sit, walk, lie etc all the time.
Please can anyone shed some light on this?
Not sure if it's important but I had an all natural birth, no pain meds and baby was 7lbs 11oz.

Thanks in advance.

That sounds like sciatica. I would visit a chiropractor (not the crunching kind though) and see what they said.

After my last baby I had ongoing lower back pain for four years. I have all sorts of test and scans but nothing showed and then one visit to a chiropractor resolved it. I couldn't believe it. My husband had been telling me to go and see her for four years too, I wish I had listened.

Have you moved back up to your own bed? Can your husband sleep on the sofa? Where does baby sleep if you breastfeed?

Leg and hip pain can be aggravated by sofa sleeping. No support long term. Your GP can put in a referral for you for physio assessment. Do you exercise? What is the most painful time of the day?

@HVPRN @HumphreyCobblers

Thank you both so much for your replies.

I have moved back into my bed (about 4/5months ago)

Pain is now all day and all night. It's really getting me down.
I'm hoping to try to get a GP appt tomorrow morning.

It may very well be sciatica but feels way worse..I have always had a bad lower back (due to an accident when I was 13. I'm 41 now) and I'm not stranger to sciatica pain from my back. I've just honestly never experienced such pain. Hurts to walk, sit etc