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Posted: 14 March 2007 at 10:55pm | IP Logged

ARGH Htafcsbird I am so angry at your doctor!

Demand to see another one and take information with you. Pelvicpartnership are good for that! I was given bloody morphine at the end for christs sake!

When will these doctors realise we dont want to harm our babies but we cannot take the pain this causes!

BTW if any of you with SPD want to see a specialist chiropractor give me a PM with where you live. My chiropractor who has changed my life around has said she will try and point you all in the right direction.

Posted: 14 March 2007 at 11:42pm | IP Logged

JuJu - Chiropractors are not accepted by the NHS. Mine costs £30 a session which although pricey - when weighed against the help she has done - is nothing! Not all chiropractors are the same though so if you are interested let me see if my chiropractor knows of anyone near you who might use her techniques.

Htafcsbird - In that case - stuff um! Get yourself down to the hospital and demand some help. Is your midwife supportive? If so use her to help push for you if not dont worry. Just keep phoning the labour ward or day assessment ward and keep telling them how much pain you are in and that you need help. Eventually someone will listen!

Posted: 24 March 2007 at 11:45am | IP Logged

hello one and all, thanks so much for the support you have given me. i managed to have a problem with the bed side tv/internet systems and so couldn't get back onto the forum. i have had you all in my thoughts though. fifteen days inhospital....not bad considering i thought that i would get help to get off sofa and that would be it! i feel slightly wierd about being home, which i feel very guilty about as surely i should be overjoyed at coming back, shouldn't i?

i had a battle on my hands to get pain relief and had to cope with differing views/attitudes and levels of knowledge. that was so stressful. they ignored the fact that the pain team had to be invvolved and they were happy to have me on the drugs. in fact they said you are scared of these drugs aren't you! i'm now on paracetomol, tramadol (100mg) and oramorph (morphine liquid). at one point i was on fentanyl which is a very strong opiod, but baby got sleepy. the thing is the i constantly left to ask for them and had to try and adhere to a regime so that it could be reviewed by the pain team properly. i was told i was on a piddly dose! i still had to endure a midwife telling me i should go to nicu to see what the nanies go through coming off drugs, and treated and likened me to a junkie mum! yet, the neonatologist said it's all fine.

thanks so much and watch this space, i hope to stay home, but might end up back in and baby out.