delphmoon - Hasn't been done in three weeks and won't get done until next week. Wouldn't be surprised if it was up though - have had big, big very nasty family dramas resulting in a lot of stress. Could that have something to do with it?
UntoldAngel - it feels very much muscular. Sitting up hurts a lot, lying down hurts a little less, movement not restricted and doesn't hurt turning left or right. It feels like it is a muscular pain running down the muscles in my back just a tiny bit to the right of my left shoulder blade and it sort of follows the outline of it if that makes any sense!
Thank you ladies My husband is terrible at massage and hates doing it but last night I started crying and demanded he try to rub it for me. It hurt like hell and I know he didn't have much pressure on there so I'm pretty sure it's muscular. I got maybe a minute of massage before he said his hand hurt too much and he couldn't keep going so I got him to rub some deep heat in (checked it with the pregnancy drug help line linked with my hospital and they said to go for it) and it felt better this morning but now I've been up for a while the pain is starting to kick in again.
Borrowing the money to get it fixed isn't an option. I'm having huge, huge family dramas at the moment that have turned very nasty and given that my family consists entirely of my parents we're stuck. Hopefully some of the other ideas work
Alternate with ice and heat on the spot. If it's muscular, it sounds like it is going to be inflammed and ice will help with that. The heat will help relax the muscles.
Have you got a tennis ball at home? Or cricket ball? Try and position it so it's in the area of the pain. Lean against a wall and use your body to move the ball around - it will help break up any tension in the muscles. You can control the pressure by how hard you lean against it. It can be tricky to coordinate the first few times. If you can get DH to rub it on your back, that would be awesome
Also try some stretches. Although ice and heat are often helpful, you still need to stretch it out. Unfortunately, you need to play around to see what stretch is going to help you. In that area, the two that generally help are
1). Stand in front of a banister or horizontal pole. Hold on with your hands on top of the pole/banister. Bend from the waist and stretch the upper back. Gently pull away from the pole without letting go. Gently come forward and stand up.
2). Stand side on to a horizontal pole. It will need to be around waist or knee height depending on what you feel when you try it. Start with the higher pole. With the arm furthest from the pole, grab the pole from the UNDER side. You should be bent forward from the hips and standing square (with your side to the pole). This might be enough to feel a stretch on it's own. Otherwise, gently tilt your shoulder down to the floor (a slight twist). If you can't feel anything, try a lower pole.
Also keep moving your shoulders. Some simple shoulder shrugs should help.
Stress could be playing a major part in it hun, and if you can you need to be able to try and relax, for your health and bub's!
You need to do some gentle stretching exercises to try and relieve some of the tension in the muscles. Gently turning to one side, and holding for 10secs (go as far as you can without pain and support your position with your arms), do on other side and repeat 2 or 3 times. There are a few others but I'll have to try and remember them.
I had 3 rotated ribs towards the end of pregnancy. Unfortunately, nothing helped, even going to the osteo and getting them pushed back into position. Bub was just in a certain position and mummy's ribs were in the way, so he kept pushing them out of the way. It was near/under my left shoulder blade and it hurt so much all the time. I kept putting heat packs on it. The only time I ever got relief was doing hydrotherapy. In the end, I think I may have been taking panadol or codeine and I hate taking drugs in pregnancy. I'm sorry to say, the only thing that cured the pain was birth.
I hope you find relief. The tennis ball idea seems a good one. I'll remember that for next time.
Do you know what position bub is in? I had the pain when bub was head down as well as breech. I used to think it was cos he was posterior, but we couldn't tell.
No idea what position she's in, Tash. I don't know how to tell and I have never been told at any of my appointments. I'm going to ask next week though - I'm really curious seeing as everyone else in my bellybuddies group seems to know where their bubs are!
i have a little massager with a red light in it that works really well (for me it did anyway).. if you know of anyone who has one, even if its a light on its own.. it maybe worth a try?
My husband is terrible at massage and hates doing it but last night I started crying and demanded he try to rub it for me. It hurt like hell and I know he didn't have much pressure on there so I'm pretty sure it's muscular. I got maybe a minute of massage before he said his hand hurt too much and he couldn't keep going so I got him to rub some deep heat in (checked it with the pregnancy drug help line linked with my hospital and they said to go for it) and it felt better this morning but now I've been up for a while the pain is starting to kick in again.
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