Third trimester excruciating pains

[Ladyorange1]

Hi I wonder if anyone can make me feel a bit better/less alone. I’m currently 30 + 3 weeks pregnant with my first. I’ve been in excruciating pain for over a week. It started as sciatica but has since moved and now is a burning, stinging, stabbing sensation in my lower right abdomen. I have been to Triage twice and they have prescribed me with Dihyrdacodeine which unfortunately makes me sick so I have to stick with paracetamol. The pain has got so bad I can barely stand straight or walk. My partner has to help me move and go to the toilet etc. I’ve had my bloods checked as well as urine and baby been monitored whilst I was at hospital and everything is fine. There’s nothing that can be done they think it’s muscular and baby growing etc. has anyone else ever had this or been in that much pain? Please tell me it gets better

This sounds awful, OP.

I had severe pain a few weeks ago and was told first of all it was round ligament pain and to take paracetamol (which I already was and it wasn’t touching it), then pelvic girdle pain and was prescribed Dihydracodeine which did help. However, I was really confused as I didn’t think either condition they’d mentioned would come out of the blue and cause such severe pain overnight (struggling to go to loo, move etc). I had a private scan booked a few days later and they identified a large fibroid and said I should have it checked out, third visit to hospital they said the pain may have been the fibroid degenerating.

Have you had a scan recently and anything like fibroids showing up? Just in case it’s a similar thing?

At my last visit, the hospital said women sometimes need to be admitted to have intravenous paracetamol as they can give much stronger pain relief that way.

I really think you should go back and explain the debilitating level of pain.
Also, that you are unable to take Dihydracodeine.

They should be able to offer a different pain relief and hopefully investigate again?

Thank you so much for replying! That sounds very painful what you have been going through too. The hospital basically said they’re too short staffed to admit me because my bloods are fine, baby seems to be fine and urine is fine. They could see I could barely walk. Every time I’ve called them back they just said all they could give me is what I already have at home. Paracetamol and Dehydrocodeine. Basically have to put up with it. they didn’t get me an ultrasound though so I may just book another private one in. Whenever I have had scans (I had a 4D scan pretty recently) everything looked in good order. They did mention at the verrryyyy beginning of my pregnancy I had a cyst (possibly 2) on one of my ovaries. The doctor did say it could be this…

The good news is that since Friday the pain is (very slowly) improving. I still can’t walk or stand properly but can rest on the sofa with legs up in less pain and when I do move, I’m not screaming in agony, only wincing with the occasional moan.

I will see what tomorrow brings and book a private scan to be sure.

thanks again 😊