Lower Back pain help

[Holyshirtballs1]

Hi all,

I'm just over 14 weeks pregnant with my 2nd baby. I suffered pelvic pain badly with my first and it didnt leave after I delivered. My son is now 2 and ive been living with chronic pain for nearly 3 years. I usually just cope and get on with life and keep active.
However in this pregnancy the pain is now getting unbearable in my lower back. Paracetamol doesnt touch it. I phoned gp and she has prescribed co-codomal however explained there was a lot of risks, im trying pre natal yoga from you tube, taking epsom salt baths and trying to remain active but its really getting to me.

I did physio every week in my first pregnancy but obviously thats not an option at the moment. I am seeing a private physio who is specialised in womens health whp has basically said my coycx is not moving as it should, one side isnt moving at all. My appointments are limited and it will be 2 weeks before i will be seen again.
Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions to help manage the pain.
Thanks.

The only thing I found to ease my back pain was a hot water bottle.

@Holyshirtballs1 I've just been prescribed codeine and was told there was no risks, however I'm in the first trimester. The doctor told me that unless your mainlining the stuff a close to labour your baby has no chance of becoming physically addicted.

Just take the stuff and put a warm hot water bottle on your lower back. The same happened to me a week ago and the pain relief meant I got better really quickly as it took it out of that spasm phase faster. Then I was off the stuff after two days. A few days of it won't do any harm, far less anyway then being in agony for weeks on end

Thanks for responding. I was hoping codine would help at night if i took it then. Seems to get worse if I stay still for 2 long.

*husband is currently pulling hotpress apart searching for hot water bottle.

@Holyshirtballs1

Hi!
Like you I had terrible SPD/pelvic pain/pelvic girdle pain in my first pregnancy. It never went away for 2 years after DC was born.

I luckily managed to find an INCREDIBLE treatment method, via a physio in Australia, which you do over Skype. It is a long course but it has basically cured me.

I’m now early in my second pregnancy and cautiously optimistic that if I can do the described exercises, I can minimise pain in this pregnancy and get back to normal afterwards

If you are interested I will send details of the treatment I received.

It honestly changed my life so I’m always looking to pay it forward! X

@gerdticker please do.
I had a horrendous labour due to the pelvic pain and last night found myself getting upset and stressed that its all going to go wrong again.

I’m not sure how much help I can be for you during pregnancy, other than sharing the things I did to ease true pain last time:

• sleeping on my side with a long feather pregnancy pillow between my legs
• putting a hot water bottle or hair dryer onto the painful area to relax the muscle in spasm
• keeping knees together ALL the time as much as you possibly can in every day life; especially getting out of car, turning over in bed
• wearing ONLY very well fitted flat shoes. No heels whatsoever
• sitting properly is very important too: crappy soft sofas are the worst! Sit tall always, with your knees always slightly lower than your hips. Press your seat bones down into the chair so your spine rises tall.
• a pelvic support belt can help; I used a version of what most physios call a Serola belt.

Think of all these things as dialling down the pain in tiny increments. Once your muscles go into spasm it can be difficult to get it all to calm down again, so it will feel frustrating, but keep trying

As a long term treatment for after Pregnancy, I used the ‘OP clinic’ run by Jason D’Abreo in Australia.

OP stands for Osteitis Pubis, which is probably what you have.

Have a look on the website. Jason is truly an amazing person, he has treated 1000’s of people with this and knows his sh**! He offers a free initial 20 minute consult, I don’t know if now is the right time for you while you’re pregnant or if it’s best to wait until afterwards, but I strongly recommend reaching out to him for advice.

(If you do go ahead with the full program one day, I will warn you it is INTENSE and not cheap (circa £1000 ish) but I cannot recommend it highly enough, like I say Jason changed my life and I don’t know if I’d have dared trying pregnancy again without his program)

Good luck!!

DM me if you have any more questions x

@Gerdticker thanks so much for your advice.
Had a better night last night after baths yoga and hot water bottles. Missing having swimming pool open for water aerobics it always helped.
Already started looking in to it. I would try anything.