Ouchies

My back has had issues since I was preggers. I had horrible back pain right through the last trimester. Now it's back but it's worse.

I'm not sure what I've done to it..

If I divide my back into quarters the whole bottom right hand side is just so sore. When I bend to pick Daniel up out of his cot (especially in the morning) I feel like I'm going to snap.

I don't think I've put anything out, it's probably a pulled muscle or something??

Any ideas on how I can help it? I've lived with it being this bad for about 10 days now but I've had enough. DH massages it for me which helps for like an hour but then its horrible again. I can't sleep properly because it hurts and I can't get comfy, so I'm a tired grump. And looking after Daniel is hard because he's a heavy lil fulla.

I found an Osteopath to be much more beneficial when I damaged my back ( prolapsed disc & sciatica). They're covered by ACC also, well $30 instead of $60.

Find yourself a good sports massage person to go to too.

And deffo tell the doc it was picking up Daniel for the ACC as it really stinks that pregnancy related injuries aren't covered.

I would try for an anti-inflammatory type of pain killer if the normal ones don't work. Voltarin and Mersyndol were my saviours.

Also either a hot or cold pack, depending on which gives you more relief. I much preferred the heat pack.

Ive always had probs with my back to, and always go see osteopath when it gets to bad.
good luck

Heard good things about Osteos

Not that I have anything against the medical fraternity, but they seem to frown upon chiro/osteo (the physios tend to aswell). I sort of feel like you need to go with what works for you. I tried physio but it didn't help me at all and the physio poo-pooed going to the chiro, but thats the only time I get relief . When you go to the chiro, try to be as relaxed as possible to help with the adjustments...it tends to be harder for the chiro to adjust you when your muscles are all tense! Hopefully it will work for you, but if not, try the next thing.

And BTW, meds are only a quick fix, and don't treat the real problem

I stuffed mine up recently putting Jack in his cot, I ended up at physio who gave me some great exercises and took some muscle relaxents just to help me through the day at work and to help me sleep as I was waking up just to roll over.

Many women post pregnancy end up with some form of back injury, and we tend not to do anything about it and suffer through it, but is much better to get sorted early!

Gentle exercise. It's free, and it's made my back pain completely disappear since losing my weight. I know it's the least thing that you want to do when your back aches, but it seriously helps.

Stacey most of the physios in Palmy give free treatments for ACC you need to pin it down to a certain date to claim.

Chiro wont work without massage/physio ditto what Emma said if you don't work the muscles the joints are going to move.

Exercises in the pool are good for your back.

kebakat wrote: and besides I don't actually know what my problem is, whether its muscle, joint, nerve, or whatever. Therefore I'm going to see what the chiro says, I'm gonna ask mark the physio what he recommends and go from there.

That's what the physio is trained to do. If exercises and stretches don't help they'll probably refer you for a scan and/or xray to see if it joint.

Maya wrote: Aimeejoy is a physio.

I know, but she's also busy being very preggers hehe.

My friends man is a well sort after physio so I don't mind waiting for him to get back from lecturing.