Hi ladies, just popping in from second tri as I reckon I have more chance of you lovely ladies being able to help me. Sorry in advance for the long thread.

Last year I did the Lipotrim diet and during my 8 weeks on the diet, about 15-20 times I would wake up in the middle of the night with what can only be described as a feeling that someone was holding a bunsen burner to the top of my thigh near the crease to my groin. Always on the right hand side.

It stopped as soon as I stopped the diet.

I went back on the diet this year and the pain returned, and it went away again as soon as I stopped the diet.

Googling it came up with meralgia parasthetica which generally occurs with rapid weight gain and occasionally loss. (I lost 30lbs in 8 weeks).

All was ok until about a month ago I had the same pain, not quite as painful but the same nonetheless. Again I had it about 2 weeks ago. And again last night, this time though it was absolute agony. It only lasts about 10 minutes but if you touch the area it hurts even more. It goes away eventually when I turn over and it subsides.

So I googled it again today and it says MP can happen during pregnancy. Now I assume this is because of the fairly rapid weight gain. But at 18 weeks I have only put 3lbs on, so it can't be because of that. So it must be something about the pregnancy itself

Does anyone else have this or had it diagnosed? What did you get told?
It's nothing like cramp or dead leg, it's a totally unique feeling.
Thanks
Chele x

How strange. My hubby & I were talking about this the other day (we're both physios). I believe it can present in pregnancy before significant weight gain because of the increased fluids in your system. This causes a narrowing of the space in your groin where the relevant nerve (lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh) runs through, which compresses the nerve & gives rise to the pain.

The other thing it could be of course is the groin pain indicating the onset of spd (pelvic girdle pain) which often starts in the groin and is worse on one side at first.

Docs with you madam. Xxx

thanks for the answers ladies, much appreciated. It's not something I'd ever heard of before until it happened to me before getting pregnant. And how quickly it went away.

Bluey - thanks so much for your answer. I am guessing there is nothing that can be done about it.

I thought about SPD and will keep that in mind the next few weeks, but having had this exact same pain before, I just figure its MP - but will def found out more about SPD.

Last night in bed I was so scared it was going to come back. I think it tried to start at one point, it went a bit numb, but stopped before the burning pain started thank god!