Would really appreciate some advice if anyone's been through this. I've been suffering from really bad rib pain mainly at nights. I broke my one of my left hand side ribs nearly 2 years ago (and have a slightly bumpy raised rib now - very sexy). This hasn't bothered me since it healed but now at 25 weeks it's become horrible.
I know that you can get rib pain in pregancy especially if you're a shortie (I'm 5 foot).
It comes and goes through the day but is really bad when I go to bed to the point that I haven't been able to sleep very well at all for a week now and am getting soooo tired and worn out. I've tried a parcetamol but that only helped for a little bit but then I woke up 45 minutes later still in pain (and I know that you can only take parcetamol sparingly).
I had my midwife appointment this morning and she is referring me for physio but is there anything else I can do whilst waiting for the appointment to come though? I'm now trying to pop myself up with pillows and use a wheat bag.
I normally don't regard myself as a wuss but it's now really getting me down - does anyone have any helpful suggestions?
Thanks so much!