been up since early AM, 3:00 or so with very bad pain in my lower back that radiated to my lower stomach & crotch and somewhat my thighs. i can not lay down, i have been stranded to the toilet and dining room chair because they are the only two places i can sit that give comfort, otherwise i begin having awful pain in the places described; on a scale of 1/10 i have to say a 6 or 7 when they hit, they are BAD. also been losing a lot of mucus plug today.
thought i was highly constipated and drank prune juice... it worked, but i am still having the pain. when the pain does hit however, my stomach is not tightening/hardening, so this makes me think they aren't really contractions? they also have not come in an overall rhythmical patterns, accept when i used the contraction master sometime around 4:00PM, only 4 times it said i was 6/7 mins apart, all other times were sporadic and just didn't match up. 4 minutes to 10 minutes to 2 minutes to 20 minutes, ect...
the pain hits when i lay down, try to sit anywhere other than the toilet or dining room chair. walking even has me wailing in pain at this point. i have taken 10 showers in less than 24 hours because the soothing water against my back and hot water feel good, it dulls the pain for me...
i have not had any complications thus far until this morning, and now i am miserable. i have not slept, and from the looks of it i won't be able to sleep tonight because i can't lay down without being sprung out of bed in sheer agony. also feels like there is a very tight knot on my lower back/spine. er...
can this still be contractions or does it sound like something else? i called the hospital to inquire about the pain but all they said was, "if your water hasn't broke there is nothing to worry about".... oh really?
thought i was highly constipated and drank prune juice... it worked, but i am still having the pain. when the pain does hit however, my stomach is not tightening/hardening, so this makes me think they aren't really contractions? they also have not come in an overall rhythmical patterns, accept when i used the contraction master sometime around 4:00PM, only 4 times it said i was 6/7 mins apart, all other times were sporadic and just didn't match up. 4 minutes to 10 minutes to 2 minutes to 20 minutes, ect...
the pain hits when i lay down, try to sit anywhere other than the toilet or dining room chair. walking even has me wailing in pain at this point. i have taken 10 showers in less than 24 hours because the soothing water against my back and hot water feel good, it dulls the pain for me...
i have not had any complications thus far until this morning, and now i am miserable. i have not slept, and from the looks of it i won't be able to sleep tonight because i can't lay down without being sprung out of bed in sheer agony. also feels like there is a very tight knot on my lower back/spine. er...
can this still be contractions or does it sound like something else? i called the hospital to inquire about the pain but all they said was, "if your water hasn't broke there is nothing to worry about".... oh really?
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