I'm 24 weeks pregnant and all is peachy EXCEPT since about 18 weeks I've had pain in my upper back on the right side. Kind of like my back ribs. It has slowly spread around the side and is now in the back, side and front ribs. I'm doing pregancy fitness classes (focussing on cardio and core strength using fit balls), walking every day, stretching, heat packs, ice packs, panadol osteo, weekly chiro visits, massage, pregnancy safe dencorub stuff and it just won't go away!!! Stretches that involve raising my hands above my head seem to give the most relief. It's like I've got an extra rib or something except it has never ever bothered me before.

Sitting makes it worse, sitting in the car for any longer than 10 minutes is awful but sometimes even standing hurts it. Today at work the pain started around an hour into my day!! And NOTHING relieved it, not even laying down. I ended up going home at lunch time bawling my eyes out because I'm just so over it. I find the weekends are better because I can lay down for 5 minutes here and there but I've still got 7 weeks left of work and still another 16 weeks till baby is due.

I feel so blessed to have a healthy pregnancy and really really want to enjoy it but my whole life is starting to revolve around my back. As in I have to plan if I want to go out somewhere so I can get time to rest my back beforehand, take heat packs and painkillers and leave early if need be. It is really getting me down. I'm sick of lying on my bed (which I love!) as even laying on the couch doesn't relieve it and after a day at work I need at least half an hour on my back if not more before I can bear doing anything.

My chiro is trying her best to figure out what is going on. Yesterday she found that my diaphragm was super tight so massaged under my ribs to try release it (OMG! Ouch!!) and that felt good last night but today my front ribs just feel bruised and sore and my back is worse. Doctor just says it is one of "those" things and says to keep doing what I'm doing, it is okay to take Panadol Osteo (which does very little TBH) and that when the baby's born things should settle down.......that is 4 months away and baby isn't even reaching my ribs properly yet!!!

Has ANYBODY got ANYTHING else I can try....or at the very least perhaps this can be a vent thread and I can get some "there, there, it will all be worth it in a few months time" (hoping for a miracle cure though ladies, pleeeeeeaaaassseeee). Did any of you have bad back pain and what did you do to relieve it, cope with it, manage it?

Poor DH is trying so hard to make me feel better, back rubs, foot rubs, heating up heat packs, doing extra jobs around the house etc. I feel so lousy.