Hi, I'm new 🙂
After 5 years of fertility/gynae investigations and not expecting to be able to fall pregnant without help, I'm delighted to be nurturing a little bean.
I'm quite early on but even before pregnancy I was prone to backache, I've had troubles since I was 15 and it was part of the reason I left my ward based nursing post and returned to district nursing.
Over the past couple of weeks, I am starting to have pains in my hip joints and the backache has returned. I understand that everything is starting to relax and stretch. The hip pain wakes me during the night and I really feel it doing the 2 and a half mile walk around my block.
I become really fatigued in the afternoons, if I'm off work I will get into bed at 3-4 and can sleep through to 7-8. It saps all my energy even coming upstairs.
I travel 90-100miles per 7.5 hour shift in the car, 5 days a week and being a community nurse, I have a lot of leg bandaging to do in patients own homes where they don't have profiling beds etc.
I do feel that I get more travel than other members of my team who find the time to go home for a couple of hours during the day because they're based in a 7 mile radius of the office whereas I'm having lunch while doing documenting in my car at the side of the road...
I havent told my boss yet but I'm going to have to within the next couple of weeks because I can't continue doing so much travel. I'm in a rural area and finding suitably hidden lay bys along the A1 for me to discreetly have a wee (because I'm in a nurses uniform) is difficult as I don't always make it to service stations.
The fatigue I hope will improve with time, but I feel close to tears with the discomfort which is made so much more worse by driving so much and bending down for legs. I dont want them to think im being a princess because I'm only a couple of months along, but I feel so stuck and upset. I'm rubbish at making myself heard, and I fear that saying something is just going to seem like I'm throwing my dummy out of the pram because I've only been back on the team since January.