hip pain/back pain

[Cazm2]

hi all 29+3 and am starting to suffer terrible hip pain especially at night when trying to sleep tried pillows between legs etc and not really doing a great deal it just feels so sore to press down on my sides.

i am also getting the pains going down my legs now to as well as pain in my cockyx? sp?

i am waiting for a new chair at work to come through for me although this has been hassle and am sitting in what is shortly becoming agony!

any tips advice welcome!!

Hi Cazm2

I recommend lying on a spare duvet, folded in two, if you have one. I've been doing this for a few months and it definitely helps, as long as I remember to shake the duvet out every couple of days because it gets compressed at night.

I've got SPD/PGP and I sometimes sit on a gym ball at work and at home. Colleagues think it's hilarious but I find it really helps, even if it takes a while to get used to it!

HTH

What Nigella said - more soft stuff under you helps, also sitting on a gym ball. Are you seeing an obstetric physio? They can often help a bit too.

And do you have decent painkillers - GPs can prescribe 30/500 codiene/paracetamol which I find help me sleep much better. And a hot water bottle on your back can help too - but pain down your legs sounds like something a physio should be able to help with.

Sympathy, sympathy - the bones in my bottom (ok, so my pelvis, I suppose) but it feels like really hurt if I sit down for too long!

I have a lumbar cushion at work but I think I'm going to have to get HR to have another look at my chair as it's increasingly uncomfortable and I have 11 weeks left before I go on maternity leave...

I'm only 17 weeks but I have also got pains in my hips when I'm in bed and specifically in the left one when I walk. I'll try the duvet and gym ball - I have one somewhere.

Come & join us on the spd sofa, theres lot's of tips on there!