I need some reminders on how to manage SPD. I only had it for the final week before Sam was born (yet another reason I'm kind of glad he came early) and have forgotten a lot.

No, I'm not pregnant!

I'm having an arthritis flare and this sodding disease has chosen a new and exciting place to attack - my pelvis!

For days I've thought it was my hip joints, and then I managed to move in a way that reminded me of the final week of pregnancy and the agony I was in then and it twigged - RA doesn't just attack the mobile joints! But the pelvis is new - I've had it in my rib cage before, but not the pelvis.

With the new medication, I should get relief in a week or so, but need to remember how to move to help manage it until I get to my next dose so that I can hopefully not spend the week as a drugged out zombie! I'm also praying that next dose will kill this flare good and well and it won't just come back a few days later.

So right now I'm feeling like I have SPD without the squishy newborn cuddles to look forward to! And the enormous pregnant belly to remind me to move differently!

BW