SPD ????

Just wondering a few things about SPD if anyone has had it.
Symptoms are feeling like someone kicked me in the touche :lol: (funny but not!)
Alot of pain when i roll over in bed (same region)
Pain when i stand on one leg when putting on pants etc.

Is it ok to keep excercising (water aerobics, lots a walking and golf) will it make it worse i guess is the main thing? It does ache when i walk espicially up hills but i wondered if its a ligment thing if it will help strengthen it if i keep excercising.
It looks like a may have a CS for other reasons but if i decide to have natural birth does it effect that, does it make it more painful?
Will it get worse or does the pain level generally stay at how it starts off (i am nearly 7 monthes)?

Sorry for all the questions but would love some info and i guess to know if it is SPD or something else. I read that SPD is most painful when you open your legs but i dont seem to have that problem.
Thanks

If it just happens on the right side it could be sciatic pain. I have had it on and off for many years and it flared up again during my pregnancy and it was exactly as you described it. Mine didn't get any worse as I got further along, but I do still do get pain from it from time to time. If it's both sides or on the left it's probably something else related to the pregnancy, but that would be a good thing cos at least when you are no longer pregnant you wouldn't get it again (unlike sciatica).

Satya
Thanks for the reply, i have had sciatica as i have scolosis which seems to trigger it, should have been abit clearer its actually between my legs in my pubic bone region :redface: So im pretty sure its not sciatica. I do agree though hopefully whatever this is relates to pregnancy, sciatica is agony !

It definitely sounds like SPD to me

Go to the physio now before it gets worse.

I didn't realise what it was - and everything you say you are experiencing I had.

After Miss m was born I couldn't even walk. My SPD was so bad that my hip had slipped out of joint and rotated the wrong way - took a lot of physio to get me to a stage now that I can walk without holding on to walls for support, or swearing my head off cos it hurt so much, and I can roll over in bed now without supporting my hips first, AND I can bend over and touch my toes without pain!!!!!

You don't want it getting to the stage that you can't do anything for yourself - so go get checked out now.

Oh and I have sciatic pain too - and its SOO not the same feeling as SPD.

Hey Scooby

I am feeling similar to you! It started about a week ago - it feels like my pubic bone/groin is aching. Hurts when I walk, but not agonising, although it slows me down. I'm sitting now, and it's not hurting, just when I move about. Is that what yours is like?

Dammit, going to have to go and google SPD now.

I hope it gets better for you hun.

27 weeks - yay!

Devon
xxxx

I had it and still have the effects of it - OSTEOPATH!!! Her interest is in weaning me from her treatment. So, this week I"m starting yoga :)

Yes, it definitely sounds like SPD.

I suffered the same for the last 4-5 months of my pregnancy. I did go to physio but all they could suggest was wearing a maternity support belt. They also gave me a list of activities to avoid and tips on how to move without experiencing pain. I spent the last three months of my pregnancy not doing ANY housework at all (even bending forward to vaccuum was painful) but I'm lucky I have a very caring, supportive partner who took up the slack.

I was booked for a c/s so didn't have to go thought labour with it. As soon as I was up from my c/s the pain was gone and I was free to move about, dress myself and roll around in bed as much as I wanted. It was absolute relief and bliss!! (despite having just had a c/s).

Good luck and I hope the rest of yur pregnancy goes quickly for you.

There IS more that can be done for you than a belt, and move on to another practitioner if they say you have to accept it. I had physios tell me I just had to live with it until I got fed up and decided there was better quality of life for me!
Some might try to tell you, after the birth, that SPD will go away when you wean from breastfeeding - and it's not true, not based on evidence.
My advice is to question anything that sounds like they're giving up on you - they just don't know how to make you better, doesn't mean someone else can't :)

I agree with Maya - the first physio gave me a belt and told me to work on my pelvic floor exercises :rolleyes:

I went to my GP got a referral to another one - who is brilliant - and also gave me a belt - but also did massage and pressured my hips to return to where they are supposed to go. I see her monthly now. She is brilliant - the first one wasn't.

Hi Scooby

I had SPD with DD2 and the physio told me that I am likely to experience it again, so I am already taking preventative measures.

My physio was wonderful. She gave me a support belt, used ultrasound before bub's head engaged, advised me to use cold packs to reduce the inflammation, and when the inflamation was down she told me to exercise as much as possible to keep the fluid moving and reduce the inflamation. She also gave me some streches to help support the area, including pelvic floor exercises, but no only them.

My MW measured how far I could spread my legs JIC I wanted an epidural and also made sure I was moving a symetrically as possible in labour.

Occasionally when I am very tired I still get symptoms, but I could hardly move when it all started. Generally when it is well managed during the pg it should resove itslef once bub is born

Sleep with a pillow between your knees, to help keep it a little bit more stable. Before you go for a walk, use an icepack, and then keep moving. Low impact exercises will be a huge help so swimming is definitely fine. HTH

Thanks so much for the advise, i would much rather nip it in the bud than let it get worse and if helps available then thats even better! Do you have to get a referral to a physio or can you just ring up? See my ob next monday so i might get her to give me the refferral if its necessary.
Have had the piloow between my knees as its the only way i can get comfortable enough to actually get any sleep :rolleyes:
Devon: yeehaa i know 27 weeks its a bit of a spin out. Sorry your getting those feelings too. I tried also googling SPD as id read about it in a magazine after i realised it was what i had spoke to my ob about last time i was there but she just said to get the strap as it was probably just loose ligaments being my 2nd pregnancy, but to be honest i couldnt get much info, or should i say not the info i wanted. Thank goodness once again for BB otherwisw i probably would have let it go and it does seem to gradually be getting worse!

I had a referral to the womens health physio at my hospital. womens health physios tend to be a bt more qualified to deal with SPD because they have been trained in how to deal with it, considering women are the only ones that get it. My MW had never heard of it before me so I showed her the article and she was quite happy with my self diagnosis :laugh: because I actually had my research there she could see the management options and just wrote a referral

Sorry about the confusion, when you mentioned it feeling like being kicked in the tush I presumed you meant your rear end which sounded like sciatic pain. If it's in the pubic bone that's different altogether. I did have some pain like that probably around about the stage you are at now but only for about a week or two and then it went away. I thought SPD but it can't have been for me as it went away. I hope yours does too, but I guess we can't all be that lucky.

I feel your pain.

You should get some physio, avoid things that put uneven pressure on your pelvis (like standing on one leg, pushing something with one foot, etc) and don't be afraid of heat packs and the like.

I swear, SPD made me the most miserable I have ever been at the end of last pregnancy and I am so dreading it this time around. And I find that after pregnancy it takes months before everything feels like it is sitting together properly.

I had it with my last pregnancy, my GP was hopeless and told me there was nothing anyone could do and that it would only get worse with each pregnancy! The worst was rolling over in bed, I could actually hear the bone grate together! By the end I was so sick of it I went to see a physio anyway (even tho my GP said it wouldn't help) She did help although didn't do much I found that the pelvic floor excercises really helped me, I think that I'll look somewhere else next time it seems others have found great physio's.

To give you a little hope - the instant I gave birth it went away I couldn't believe it! It didn't just get better over a few days, for me it was instant. Also I didn't notice it at all during labour.

Tam- I didn't notice it during labour, either! It disappeared and came back again by Sept/Oct (born June), and that's when the physios took 3 months to give up on it. By the April of the following year I was seeing an Osteo, who was recommended through another osteo on the ABA forum.
I've also just had a timely email that might interest you SPD sufferers. Google oo.com and it's an Australian site selling overstocked items from major retailers. They have a thigh pillow, memory foam thing, selling for $12.95...I have one and it's BRILLIANT. You don't lose it through the night and it doesn't get in the way, because it just fits between the thighs :)
Osteo has given me stretches, but also strengthening exercises - you need both, not just stretches. A lot of the pain you start to develop comes from the muscles working hard to stabilise the joint, so if the muscles are conditioned properly, they'll support that instability so much better and will make a real difference to your quality of life.
Put it this way: I'm riding my horse again with no ill-effect, no 'sledgehammer up my crotch' feeling.