Hello,
I’d be really grateful if anyone has experienced what I’m going through and help calm my nerves a bit. Sorry this is a bit long!
I am 32 weeks pregnant with 1st baby. Two nights ago I randomly started to get some left sided upper back/shoulder blade pain which gradually got worse. I woke up in the night and it was bad enough for me to think I should go to A&E as was radiating into my left chest when I took a deep breath. Seen by various doctors, given a ECG, chest X-ray (clear), Ultrasounds of both legs to check for DVT (clear). D dimer test for blood clots was high but normally is in pregnancy so not a helpful result. Consultant gave me the option to have a CT/VQ scan to confirm if there was a PE (clot in lung) but said he was pretty confident it was musculoskeletal linked to pregnancy so based off of that I decided not to go with the scan due to the radiation. I then ended up back in A&E last night due to waking up in the night with excruciating pain and I didn’t know what to do with myself. I’ve been tachycardic the whole time. Did end up having a CT scan today which was clear so no clots, which is great. However, the pain is absolutely unbearable and I genuinely don’t know how I’m going to sleep as any position is so painful and any movement hurts. I’ve had about 4 hours sleep since Sunday night. I feel like I’ve tried everything. Paracetamol isn’t touching it, I do have some codeine to take now but this didn’t really do anything in hospital either. I feel like I’m at my wits end.
I can’t seem to find much about other women experiencing this in pregnancy. Anyone else have any ideas or experienced this and can tell me it does go away? I’m terrified this is going to continue throughout the rest of pregnancy.