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Spd? Any advice?

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momtoolliex · 25/04/2020 10:11

Hi all, I might ramble a bit so bare with me.

I'm 28 weeks pregnant tomorrow and this past week has been absolutely awful - I haven't had longer than 2 hour stretches of sleep because I'm constantly being woken up in pain, it started off quite minor (although still painful) and it was more of a severe crampy period-type pain and shooting pains around my groin/pelvis when I walked so a couple of days ago I went to the triage where they thought I could possibly be in premature labour, I was checked over and told my cervix was firmly shut and it's just muscular/ligament pain and to just take paracetamol and rest.

However last night I can only describe as the worst pain I've ever felt in my life (and this is coming from someone who broke 12 bones at once!) it felt like the muscles in my groin/pelvis area were ripping apart every time I tried to lie down or straighten my leg - not ideal especially when sleep deprived at 4am.

I've had a difficult pregnancy so far (miscarriage before this one, finding a rare birth defect at the anomaly scan, having an amino and having to wait for those results and a few more complications) and it's just starting to feel like it's one thing after another, it's making me feel so down and depressed and the lack of sleep defiantly is helping!

I will speak to my midwife at my next appointment although she isn't the nicest, she usually just fobs me off and I'm out the room within a couple of minutes. Someone close to me had SPD during pregnancy and she's pretty convinced I have that too, and the symptoms defiantly match up. I was just wondering if anyone had advice or any way to try and ease the pain apart from warm baths & paracetamol? It scares me to think I have another 12 weeks of this to go Sad

Sorry for the long rambling post, I haven't slept at all so I'm abit all over the place 😂

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BammBamm · 25/04/2020 11:17

Acupuncture helped me greatly. The NHS did a large tubi grip support but a friend gave me a stronger one she had been given from a different Trust which was much better. I went to physio, not sure how much it helped, but as I was still struggling they gave me acupuncture after it, which was truly amazing.

123456kent · 25/04/2020 11:45

Sadly you are hugely disadvantaged at this time because manual therapy (physio/osteo) is strongly advised for spd/pgp.
Ive also missed out on this because of a horrible midwife and the covid situation.
You cant do anything about the latter but you can the former, speak up and say you want to talk to someone else. Not that theres much anyone can do at the moment, but someone taking it seriously is a good start

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