How did you cope with spd/pgp? Plz help me :'(

[StarFox21]

Hi all, 2am and I'm sitting up in bed dithering about on my phone as had a loo trip and had a painful meltdown when I gotback to bed :(
Am 18weeks with second and my hips and tailbone were f**d after first pregnancy, but already the pain is so bad 24/7 I'm struggling to cope. No relief from sitting or lying in bed (with cushion). Have a birthing ball which one can only spend so much time of the day on with a 3.5yr old!
Am seeing physio on thurs but am not optimistic as any movement is agony evenbeing still!
How did you cope with the pain? I cry then eat haha :(
Am loosing my sanity x

You poor thing - must be so painful. Hopefully someone will be along soon with some helpful suggestions - all I can send is my sympathy. Hope the physio can help on Thursday.

You have my sympathy. I had SPD badly with first pregnancy but none with the second luckily, so I have no more advice than the usual you probably got for your first pregnancy. As far as I can remember it was to pace your activity as much as you can, follow all the movement precautions (like keeping knees close together when getting out of the car, lie on your side in bed and keep knees together when turning over etc), get one of those elasticated girdles from the Physio, be careful with your weight and take permitted pain killers. The birthing ball was never suggested to me and I can't see how it would have helped tbh. The best advice was to have a water birth, which was amazing for pain relief but wouldn't help you right now! I really hope you get some relief soon

Until your appointment:

• wear bump support underwear, take it off in evenings.

• warm soaks in bath before you sleep - even if every night.

Yes, and read your body.. Stop when you start feeling things are getting strained, housework can wait.

I've had SPD in this pregnancy and despite trying all the advice the only thing that really helps is to rest. Also, I now avoid walking for long distances and standing on one leg to get dressed, ie I always sit down to put my knickers on!

I expect you're trying all of the above though! Must be difficult to rest with a little one. How much walking do you do a day?

Poor you OP. It's so bloody tough.. Especially robbing you of sleep when you desperately need it.

I had SPD in my pregnancy and saw the physio. Like you I didn't anticipate they could do much but in fact she did a manipulation on my pelvis which helped enormously. I walked out of the hospital so much easier than I had hobbled in. Granted it wears off but you can get it done again.

Really hope you can get similar relief.

I was the sane, nothing really helped. I was in 0ain all the time. Physio gave me a bump support which i wasnt sure if i liked. They then gave me a TENS machine and a set of crutches, and things were easier with them. I bloody loved that TENS machine.

Private physio, decent support belt + book of exercises that taught me how to put my pelvis back when it went out of alignment. PGP started at 8 weeks, I went on holiday last week (33 weeks) and was still able to walk for a couple of hours at a time. Can't run, but walking freely will do me until the baby comes!

Cost me in total about £150 to go from so much pain I could hardly walk, to a comfortable day to day life. Money well spent!

See what the Physio says but if they're unhelpful (the NHS one told me to basically not move and that was it!) it might be worth seeing an osteopath or chiropractor who specialises in SPD. I did and had some manipulation, which did help loads. I wasn't pain free afterwards but wasn't in agony every time I moved. It was achy instead of agony.

I'm 34 weeks and it's bad down my left hip and across my back. I'm managing it although have had days where all I can do is cry from the pain.

Sitting upright with my legs on the floor seems to help more than sitting in bed with my legs out, for some reason.

I'm also doing hot water bottles for my hip and hot showers before I go to bed. This seems to really help. I find standing up helps ease any pain but there's only so much standing up I can do! Paracetamol helps a bit.

Good luck.

I've had pgp in varying degrees throughout my pregnancy (now 39+6!), it was excruciating at about the stage you're at now, when i was still trying to do everything as per normal. I found a serola support belt helpful for doing things I couldn't avoid like walking the dogs & my cleaning job, they have online videos to show you how to position them correctly & hopefully your physio would help if unsure. I also went for physio & the lady taught me a few pilates type core strength exercises to do at home to strengthen the muscles around my pelvis & in my bum to hold it all together a bit better. If you physio isn't much help you could try a pregnancy Pilates class or online videos. It doesn't feel like you're doing much at the time but I found that when I persevered with exercises every day, things did improve. Finally the gradual slowing down as I got bigger has helped too.
Hope you see some improvement soon.

I had it really badly with my last pregnancy and ended up on crutches. My gp prescribed codeine for me you have to be careful with it but it's fine to take when it's really bad just to get a few hours where I wasn't in pain was amazing.

Osteopath. Kept me walking! Ice pack in pants in the evenings.

I can really relate to you. I ended up having a complete melt down in my g.p surgery last week, pelvic pain has been making my life a misery recently. I'm 19 weeks. I now have a prescription for Codeine and will be seeing a private phyio soon. Also I'm taking a week off work as being sat in the same position for 8.5 hours a day wasn't helping. Really hope you get some relief, definitely recommend seeing your g.p/midwife, good luck.

Thanks for all your replies xxx sort it out nature us ladies need a better pelvis please! Support band sounds good, I feel like I'm enormous already so maybe rapid weight gain hasn't helped either?
Our bath been broken since feb I'd love to soak in a hot bath but alas!
Found somewhere that does pregnancy massage and osteo, has anyone had massage? I don't think I'd want to leave!