Is this the SPD I've been hearing so much about?

[nova22]

Late Monday night/early Tuesday morning the baby woke me with her crying. When I got up to comfort her, I felt a sharp pain in my pubic bone that was so painful that I felt right back down into the bed. DH got up to help the baby so I could roll over and go back to sleep, but even the rolling over part caused more pain. It was so bad that I could not move without it hurting.

I had a midwife appointment on Tuesday and after my painful night, DH got permission to work from home so I could go straight from the midwife to the chiropractor without having to tow the other kids along. He was able to do an adjustment from behind and when he was done he said I really needed that fixation and asked me to come back again today. I can tell things are bad when he tells me to come back within the same week...usually he says he'll see me in two or three weeks. It was hurting again last night when I got up out of my chair and when I rolled over in bed.

So is this SPD? Because I kinda hate it...and I hope the chiro will help. What else have you found that eases the pain, anything?

[ILovePie]

It sounds like it to me.

The tell-tale signs for me are pain rolling over and pain pushing my feet (like into shoes or pushing a drawer closed).

Things that help:
-strengthen your abs as much as you can (as they stretch and don't support your hips as well, the SPD gets worse)
-roll over with a pillow squeezed between your knees.
-ALWAYS have a pillow between your knees when you lay down - pillows from knees to ankles keeping everything parallel really really helps.
-stretching your hamstrings/low back
-warm baths (or heating pads, but a bath works best for me)
-I, personally, find it least painful to roll onto all fours and get up from there. Getting up from my side by pushing with my hands makes me SCREAM in pain. I also lay down from that position (I literally crawl into bed and get on my side).
-Being on all fours or in supported child's pose has felt really good to me both pregnancies (I had SPD much longer and much worse last time). Every time I expect it to hurt because of the weight right into my hips...but every time it feels SO GOOD! I guess because it's putting weight into my hips from a different angle, and also getting the baby's weight off my pelvis a bit?
-keep moving. Get up and walk around the house every hour at least. No major activity, but a moderate puttering will help.

[Lyndzies]

UGH, I hate to agree w/ ILovePie on this one but it does sounds like SPD to me.

Only thing that has helped me at all is regular chiropractic treatment (2-3 times a week for the first few weeks, then weekly) including sacrum adjustments, pelvic adjustments, and the Webster technique; and (recently, since it's come back in full force at 36 weeks) sleeping in a recliner. Sleeping flat in a bed on my side, regardless of number or placement of pillows, is my own personal hell, and rolling over & getting in and out of bed is pure torture.

I really hope chiro works for you; it helped me immensely, and my pain was almost completely gone from weeks 30-36 (my SPD symptoms first appeared around week 24, and I began being treated for them at 28 weeks, when the pain was at it's peak and I had gone so far as to take Percocet prescribed by my midwife, of all people).