SPD/PGP Support thread

I think thats partly why they wouldnt give me anything untill i got further along?

Could well be why they are trying to hold off anything too strong. Have u tried acupuncture. We have a local mw who does it. My mw is lookin into it for me. Maybe worth having a look.

I didn't know it was addictive? Hmmm, well not sue how I'm gonna cope when on co-drydamol already!
To be fair I prob take 1 every 2 days just later afternoon when it's so hard to keep moving and the reason being is cos I'm desp to stay at work and finish my course, I love my job! I don't get spaced out or sleepy on codeine, co-codamol or co-drydamol it doesn;t seem to affect me that way but I'm not sure how it affects the baby. I mean I've not felt movement yet so hard to compare it tbh. I don't think it's the medictation maing the baby sleepy either as a) i'm not taking it four-six hourly and b) I was 17 weeks before they prescibed it and still hadn't felt movement when I had by 15-16 weeks with my others.

Physio on tues, I'm actually looking forward to it so desp to stay mobile and keep going, but am also worried I'll get there and be disapointed cos they don't actually help?

Hope evryone ele is ok/ hugs

my Dr is such an arse. I went to see him yesterday and told him my symptoms in the order that they most affect me....a sore achey pain in both my hips(more in my left than right)pains down my inner thighs, if i move too quickly a sharp pain in my lady bits, slight soreness in my lower back and when i lift my right knee my right hip clicks. And he told me ive got lumbago,I dont understand how he came to that conclusion seeing as when he asked me to bend over I could touch my toes without my back hurting at all, my back doesnt hurt when i bend, twist or lift things so how can it be lumbago?? I asked him if he was sure it was nothing pregnancy related and he said "oh, are you pregnant?" (he was the dr that confirmed my pregnancy and who i saw twice when i was bleeding early on!) he asked how many weeks i am so i told him i will be 16 weeks on friday but he told me that at 16 weeks its far too early for the baby to have any affect on my body and that if i was 28 weeks plus then my symptoms might of been pregnancy related Im at my mw on monday, do you think with my symptoms, its worth talking to her about it?
sorry for the long post x

Happygal - im pretty sure there are ladies on here who were diagnosed with SPD earlier than you? so your doctor is wrong about it being too early... but im sure someone else will be along soon to confirm it

Im seeing my doctor this morning so will wait & see whether I get fobbed off as well xx

yeah happygal id go for a 2nd oppinion if i was you, you sound pretty much exactly the same as i am and iv had it confirmed now from a physio, Midwife and Gp that its SPD My symptoms started pretty much as soon as i got pregnant, it has nothing too do with the size of the baby (altho that does affect it) its to do with the ligaments and muscels loosening in pregnancy weather ur 17 weeks or 37 weeks it can still happen! Ur GP sounds useless i would definatly ask to be seen by someone else x


On a diffrent note from me...Why didnt anyone tell me i was gunna wake up one day and the pain would be 100x worse!!!! Ok maybe that doesnt happen to every one but i woke up in the middle of the night in such bad pain, i couldnt move coz it hurt but staying still made it hurt too! i had too get up and stand up in the end! Now this morning its soooo painfull! OH suggested maybe little mans moved down in too my pelvis a bit more, I told him nah it cant be not at 33 weeks with 2nd baby! But the more i walk around the more i think he might be right! get out of my pelivs baby plenty of time for that!!!

Baby could have moved Zara. I always find I roll over onto my during the night in my sleep, 'cos I can't roll over on to my side I think cos of my hips. It then wakes me up, 'cos my R hip hurts, then have to go for wee, then takes ages to drop off, then when I get up R hip hurts, then goes off (so long as us crutches).

Hope the lil man moves for you hun.

I really find the crutches help, feel fine, then try & walk without them round the house then it hurts again

I hate using the crutches around the house i seem too bump in too everything But i guess that might help, Im having bed rest today :-) took my pain killers which seem too have worked a little, i dunno if its cause im in bed not moving like! but im just gunna sit here untill i feel ready too get up! Charlies at nursery and OH is gunna pick him up soon n entertain him untill nap time for me! bless him! x

Zara - big that sounds awful hun xx

My doctor happily signed me off for the next 8wks with SPD & is referring me for physio so thats defo a turn up for the books!! (I was fully expecting to be fobbed off) xx