Pulled Muscles, SI Flares

I have pulled two different abdominal muscles, and lemme tell you that hurts like heck.  For the left one I spent three days hunched over and having to push in on the spot just in order to stand.  It does make me question my c-section decision -- the fact that I've had so much trouble with this recovery, and that, at 3 1/2 weeks out, I still have so much pain.  Percocet doesn't even touch it at this point.

And BOTH my SI's are flaring up now, from time to time.  Even the fused side, which I don't understand.  I have requested the medical release and the new referral for PT, and both docs agreed, but the PT hasn't received them yet.  Being Friday afternoon, I'll have to wait all weekend and try again Monday.  And even once they receive them, it will likely be 2-4 weeks before PT can get me in.  I am in PAIN.  And I just want to enjoy my baby.  Trying to believe this is all temporary, but having lived through extensive chronic pain in the past, of course I'm getting nervous.

It's weird that I had so very little pain late in pregnancy but am fighting like crazy now trying to make it through.

Drugs

Just got out of my 2 week post partum check up. She said I'm taking too much Motrin, since I'm still taking it around the clock. She did offer me one more Rx for Percocet, God bless her. She said most people don't have much pain past the first week, and I have more because of my chronic pain issues. So she was sympathetic but also wants me to wean off the Motrin. How do you do that? I took Motrin around the clock for 3 years before I got pregnant and Tylenol around the clock after that.  But, I can tell I'm getting better every day.  My goal is to arrive at my 6 week check up and show her I still have half my Percocet left.  That's my goal.  Whether I reach it is another story.

She's here!

Sorry it's taken me so long to update the blog. Sarah arrived two weeks ago.  The c-section was beyond difficult, with a terrible reaction to the spinal which bottomed out my blood pressure and raised my heart rate to 145. Once they got that under control and started cutting, I had a 40% blood volume loss. My hemoglobin was down to 7.5.  So I had anemia to deal with, on top of post op pain and a hungry newborn. But she's worth every pain and complication.

On the SI front, my old friends piriformis and gluteus medius spasms are back. I'm sure my inactivity has a lot to do with that. When I'm able to take a percocet, that helps all my issues, but since my OB doesn't believe in giving too many pain meds, she gave me 3 1/2 days' worth of percocet for my 6 week recovery. So I've been rationing those bad boys and choosing to hug ice packs instead whenever I can stand it. I'm hoping to get back into PT soon, but that depends on getting a medical release from the OB, getting a new referral from the PCM, and managing to get a few appointments in before school lets out. Else, I don't know what I'll do with my three kids 2-3 times per week during the summer. Hubs is off work for April, but he won't be able to watch my kids all summer. Somehow it will all work out, just, in my sleep-deprived fog, I don't quite see how yet.

39 weeks today

Just two more days until my scheduled c-section.  My pubic symphysis pain has been way down, and although I'm tired and have aches and pains in my ribs (from Little Girl Feet), I am amazed at how little pain I've endured here at the end.  I've gone off the muscle relaxer completely, and just now use Tylenol once or twice a day.