Struggling To Cope With SPD Pain

[LouisaJF]

How do you bear it?

I am unfortunately familiar with dealing with chronic pain so I am no wuss, but I am sat here in tears tonight.

I am fed up of pain every time I move. I am fed up of not being able or allowed to do anything useful. I cannot believe I've got at least another three months of this.

I'm sorry for wallowing, it's one of those nights but I have no idea how I am going to get through this. Please help.

Shameless bump now it's a reasonable time of day.

I can't offer any advice but am also experiencing the same. I'm ok during the day but in agony at night... Will be interested to hear any advice or tips.

Oh it's awful. I found very little helped unfortunately. I used to hold a bag of frozen peasbetween my legs. Lying in the bath helped slightly. If its any consolation mine disappeared straight away after my c section. Post c section felt miraculously pain free.

Oh Louisa, I know exactly how you feel. I suffered really badly with this with dd2 and found my mw to be next to useless. A warm bath in the morning helped ease things to start the day and plenty pillows between the knees and under hips for sleeping. Would also recommend a trip to physio. I didn't go until after dd was born but she told me I should have been referred while pregnant.

The physio kind of popped something back into place and the pain was gone. I'm pg again now and will be referring myself next month.

There are also support groups for sod sufferers, check online to see if there's something in your area. I think it's more common than we're lead to believe . My mw claimed there was no one she had dealt with then a found a support group in here and I live in a tiny town.
Hope you get some relief soon op.

Thankfully my referral to the physio has come through today, although the MW doesn't seem to think they can do much. DH bought me a pregnancy massage for Xmas so I'll be booking in for that as soon as possible.

I guess I'm just shocked at the severity of the pain.

I am suffering with this too. I got lots of helpful tips on mumsnet. It's really bad now. I have started on cocodamol and that is helping a bit. My physio referred me for hydrotherapy and it's amazing once I am in water but back on land it starts up again.

Lots of people recommended chiropractor, it didn't help me much but you should look into it. May help you.

It's awful I know. Get all the help you can, go to a yoga class (inform the teacher), physio, SPD exercises (actually do them unlike me!), and write in your birth preferences how far you can spread your legs (measure it). You will get through it and I can safely tell you that it vanishes right after birth.

In my experience, most physios, and especially NHS ones, are pretty useless unfortunately. They offer belts, crutches, exercises and advice, but it's all a drop in the ocean.

People report relief from chiropractors and osteopaths and some specific physios who are a bit more hands on.. BUT.. plenty are also similarly useless so you really really need a recommendation before you waste your money. I'm seeing a physio right now for my lower back because I pulled a muscle - she's treating that (and doing a lovely job) but won't touch anything to do with my SPD "because I'm pregnant" which is very frustrating. I have no localish recommendations for a decent physio/chiro/osteo for SPD so I'll just have to put up with it. Again. This is DC4, and I get it every time so I know the drill.

I admit to having had the odd co-codamol (8/500) at nighttime (a few times a week) if it is really bad and I can't sleep, but I naturally worry over the addiction issues and it's not recommended in the third trimester at all. I'm just approaching the third trimester now so I'll have to stop that which is a shame as it's the only time I get a decent night's sleep. I am going to ask my consultant when I see them on Thursday about this and see what they say, because it has been a lifesaver at night.

You probably already do, but if you don't already, make sure you sleep with a decent pillow between your knees. Not doing so makes it much worse.

Also going up the stairs sideways helped !