Sacro Illiac Joint Dysfunciton

[sharond101]

I have been diagnosed with this and am on crutches. Got an acute pain in left buttock and it is very restricting. Anyone else suffered? Did you rest or keep moving around? Did it settle after the birth?

Didn't want to leave your post unanswered I have suffered from this in 4 pregnancies, it's horrific. Mine was in my right side but spread to both SI joints and my syphilis pubic joint.

I had physio which helped a bit but my right hip would just move back again afterwards. Had the belts too. The last twice it was either crutches or cocodamol I couldn't have crutches as had toddlers so took cocodamol for the last few months. Plus DP went down to 4 then 3 day weeks to help out.

It was a Catch 22 if I moved a lot it hurt like hell later on, if I rested I would seize up.

I still get twinges 2 years later but nothing on the scale it was during pregnancy.

Thank you sweetkitty. It is a Catch 22. Sit around and I stiffen, move around and I ache. Did you feel relief after the birth or did it take some time to correct?

Always felt fantastic after giving birth like a different person you do become very unfit and probably inflexible due SI pain. I still have twinges if I do a lot of walking (probably because I am so unfit) a friend was told it was because she was overweight that she had it, which is rubbish as I was 8 1/2 stone before getting pregnant and was about that at 14 weeks when mine tends to start up.

The only thing that got me through each day was cocodamol ok not ideal in pregnancy and I never took as much as the recommended dose but it did help me move about.

Thank you sweetkitty. I have been underweight in fact and maybe that is the cause due to the extra weight on my pelvis. The pain has been worse today and radiating across my back, although that may be due to me leaning on the crutches yesterday so I have given up with them. Co-codamol makes me really constipated and am on iron as well so currently sticking with paracetamol. What strength co-codamol did you use 8/500 or 30/500? If it gets much worse I may have to deal with the constipation. My Obstetrician did recommend co-codamol.
Trying to rest but it's so hard to not move around at all and like we agreed you do tend to stiffen up.

I was on 30/500 but I used to take one in the morning with just a regular paracetamol as 2 made me a bit woozy, I could get to about 2pm without really needing more then stretch it to about 8 when I could take 2 as I didn't have other DC to look after.

I actually asked to be induced at 40 weeks last time as I could bear it anymore, they said they could induce at 38 weeks for SPD/SI pain but I wanted to wait until he was more ready.

A daily bath with some lavender oil was good too and sleeping with loads of pillows to support you helped too.

It's awful I do feel for you but the baby at the end is so worth the weeks of pain

Hi, I had this 2 weeks before I had ds, and still had problems for around 8m after. I had some physio, nothing seemed to help then she gave me some ultrasound on it and it instantly went and never came back, even in my next pg. It was magical, so if you do not lose symptoms after you give birth do remember this as I would def. reccommend.