Backache at 21 weeks - some TMI

[Naetha]

Folks, I'm starting to get a bit worried...

...last night (after all the envy of other people still having a sex life!) me and DH played a bit of "how's your father". Look away now if anything vaguely TMI scares you...I had an amazing orgasm, really really intense, but right as I was coming I got a really severe cramp in my abdomen and lower back. It wasn't the mild cramps you get (like period cramps) but the sort of cramp you get in your calf in the middle of the night - really hurt. Thankfully it stopped almost straight away, but my back has been aching ever since, and is really quite uncomfortable. Bean is still moving around in there, but I know that constant backache is a sign of premature labour and now I'm panicking.

I don't want to have to go to the hospital if I'm just being paranoid, but neither do I want to go into premature labour and not know it...

Has anyone else had this before? Please tell me its one of those daft pregnancy things that everyone gets

I've tried ringing the midwife but they're all busy and I don't know whether its something that would be considered urgent or not...

How many weeks are you?
I've never had this, maybe give your MW a call to see what she says.

Sorry cant be much help, hopefuly someone will be along in a minute who knows about this.

xx

I'd ring your midwife, but I do know that intense orgasm can start off Braxton Hicks. I had one a couple of weeks back, my bump went really hard and it felt uncomfortable no where near as bad as your describing, but it could be strong braxton hicks. I'm not medically trained to give advice just passing on an opinion.

i'd ring the midwife, thats what they are there for, just for reassurance, you'll only worry otherwise and that cant be good either.

Good luck, take care, and let me know how you get on, i'd be interested to see what it is.

Spoke to the midwife - told me to take 2 paracetamol and have a lie down which did the trick

Still got niggling backache, but nowhere near as bad as before. MW reckons it was probably BH, or a strained muscle. By the way it feels, I think its more BH (not that I'd know, never having had one before, but I know what a pulled muscle feels like) than anything else.

Just need to remember to take it easy I guess