Constant Braxron Hicks?

[mnmum]

Hi there,

I'm new to this forum and thought I might ask a question

I am 33 weeks and I get what the doctors seem to think are Braxton Hicks...thing is they are all day every day, regular as clockwork and oh so painful. One day they will be 10 minutes apart for the whole day, next day 8 minutes...sometimes down to 5 minutes apart for the whole day. They stay at the same level of pain...and dont get closer together for that day are rather intense and give me backache as well.

Everything I have read seems to indicate that Braxton Hicks shouldn't go for more than a few hours and you shouldn't be able to set your clock by them. This has been going on since 26 weeks but have got even worse in the last few days. I went to the hospital last week and they did an internal and said that my cervix was still long and hard so I am not in pre labour.

I was wondering if anyone else has had or is having this? I had the same thing with my first born, but they were no where near as painful as this and he was born at 39 weeks. I am scared that I will have to put up with this for this next 7 weeks and dont think that I can. How early can I demand an induction...can you even do that or will they just tell me to deal with it? Panadol, panadine, hot showers, resting, walking, yoga, meditation, shoping, pedicures nothing seems to help alieviate it! My husband ended our marriage when I was 12 weeks pregnant, so I cant sit around and put my feet up...especially with an active 18 mth old boy. Any advice would be appreciated