A Mummy-To-Be…

I’m starting to feel like I live in the doctors. I feel like I am ALWAYS there.

Before getting pregnant, I rarely went to the doctors. This time last year I was a bit poorly with a stomach complaint (and a lump in my abdomen which worried the hell out of me) which saw me lose over a stone in weight in just over a week. That was scary and I was even sent to hospital to have a scan on my aorta just to be on the safe side in order to rule out an aneurysm. SCARY! All was fine though…. The lump is still there and I am still alive. Apparantley it is a muscle. Weird.

I feel like I have weekly visits there at the moment for one thing or another. The last one was my ante-natal appointment and the on before that was because I was worried about some pains I was getting in my belly and wanted to make sure Flump was ok. Which he was and is.

This time, I was there because I have been experiencing some quite bad pains in my back, hips, groin and thighs – kind of stabbing pains sometimes. So much so that I was unable to get myself off of the sofa in my sisters on Bonfire Night. (Yes, we ended up having fireworks after all, LOL).

Anyway, I decided to make an appointment to get it checked out as it’s been making me feel so sore and useless over the past few days that I have been in tears twice.

Funnily enough, I felt okay when I went in to see her. She made me touch my toes, bend backwards, bend to the left, then to the right and turn to the wall moving just my torso. All felt fine. Then she got me to lay on the couch and raise each leg, then bend them and she then pulled each leg out to the side and back in. The only pain I felt at that time was in my left hip.

She wasn’t sure what it was and then looked up SPD (Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction) and started explaining it to me. I told her I knew all about it as my sister had suffered with it too. What she read out matched my symptoms so she has referred me to physio. I asked if it was worth waiting a while before making such a referral (I like minimum fuss) but she said it could take weeks to come through anyway and that if I felt I didn;t need the appointment at that time then it was better to have it and cancel it then end up suffering and not have anything at all. Matt jumped in and said “take the referral now!” I think he is worried that I’d decline and in 5 weeks be bed-ridden LOL. So, I’m to call them on Monday and see what they say.

When we left the surgery, as soon as I stood up, I could feel that I was sore again after the bending, stretching and manipulating. By the time we got back to the car I had a pain soaring through my bum cheek and hips. Here we go again…

I also mentioned about acid reflux whilst I was there (well, actually, Matt did), and she said that there’s not really anything that is safe to take in pregnancy for it so I had a big bottle of Gaviscon prescribed. Not that it does anything for reflux but it’s handy to have for heartburn and I am getting through the bottles as we buy them. (At least this one was free).

So all in all, not great. Possible SPD and acid reflux raging but at least little Flump is fine… even if his Mummy is getting a battering!