SPD? A lot of pain

[Littlemiss20]

Hi everyone just wondering if anyone has had experience with SPD.
I am 32 and half weeks, I have been having on and off stabbing pain in my vagina for about two weeks when walking to the point it took my breath away, I was assured this was normal.
Although since Monday after sitting on the floor playing with DS for an HR or so Iam in agony. The pain started in my groin/ pubic area and I could barley walk around called the MW and she said it was SPD. I have self referred to physio.
I went to doc and she felt it was ligament pain. As I did not have back pain at the time. This has got progressively worse. I now have lower back pain and period type cramps. I get pain in my ribs and mainly right sided too. I also find it difficult to walk even with support belt and get the sharp pains in pubic area/ vagina. When this pain comes it makes me bend foward with the shock of the pain.
Sorry for the long message but just wondering if this is SPD or something else? I am sore all the time since Monday and can barley sleep needing hot baths overnight.
Thanks x

The sharp stabbing pains in your groin sounds like spd. You need a support belt, either from the physio or buy one online. Mine was painful but manageable, I could still walk, but a friend had crutches and even a wheelchair towards the end of her pregnancy. Good news is it usually goes away pretty quickly after birth. Good luck !

Sorry just re-read. Have you got a physio appointment yet? Your midwife might help push things forward if it's becoming debilitating.

Get yourself to an osteopath asap! You might have to go private, but honestly it it totally worth it. I have had spd with both pregnancies (currently 38+3). During my first pregnancy I saw a chiropractor and it helped, but never for long. This time I've seen (a rather handsome French) osteopath and I have been pain free for much much longer. The key is to get treated early. You will have to continue being treated during your pregnancy as the 'relaxin' hormone keeps being produced and that will keep offsetting your pelvis. Sending and . It's awful!

Iam on the waiting list she said it shouldn't be too long so hoping next week. Then got my MW two weeks. Just frustrating as my first pregnancy was a breeze.

I had this too but never got any decent treatment (I'm not in the UK).

Small things like never sit on the floor or hard chairs in general, avoid the stairs and tbh walking if I could and avoid carrying the toddler and other heavy loads all went some way to helping. Sleeping propped and having a few diff positions I could move to helped me a bit but I had a really bad cough and the coughing was jolting my hips at night and lessened if I sat up a bit, so that may not be universal advice.

Also generally keeping your knees together so getting out of bed swing your knees out and then stand up on both feet. Take small steps when walking etc helped a little but I found it hard to keep this up.

For me the hardest part at first was to keep asking for and accepting help esp as it hit in my first tri and I never really got a preg bump so had to keep explaining the problem to people.

Thanks everyone for ur advice and i will definitely look into the osteopathy anything to help x

I would stick with physio and not touch osteo.... I've had spd with both my pregnancies. Although I was on crutches with the first this time I've managed better with the right exercises, seating positions etc.

Osteopaths are generally not registered medical professionals and quite frankly it's a form of quackery. Check out "what's the harm" webby. Sorry if I've offended anyone but it always worries me that someone might put themselves in the hands of someone not medically trained, not independently verified etc. If you do go to one make sure you research them.

Best of luck whatever you do.

Look up the pelvic girdle partnership website, loads of tips for every day living with SPD on there. Also, when you get your physio appointment, when they ask you what you want them to do about it all for manual therapy if they don't come out and offer it.

The extra tips I have gleaned from my last physio appointment were to treat the achey area with an ice pack (or frozen peas!) for ten minutes, 3 times a day. The other one is to get an extra quilt and sleep on top of it, the slipperiness makes it easier to turn over in bed.