Ughh!!

So, last week, I had to walk across campus for a meeting. Normally, it's not a big deal. But lately, I haven't been too active, so apparently, I went a bit too fast for my body. Beginning that night, I was a bit sore. I took it easy but it's still gotten worse. I bought a pregnancy belt on Friday and wore it all day on Saturday while at Port Discovery. But I still had to sit the entire time and was really hurting by the time we got home. Then yesterday, I spent most of the day on the couch with the heating pad on but had to get up to make dinner while Chris went to the gym. By the time he got home, I was literally in tears. He banished me to the couch for the rest of the night. I decided last night that I would not go to work today and try to get to the doctor.

The pain is in the lower left side of my back and spreads up my back and down my leg. My knee which is already weak has been hurting as well. I had sciatic pain with Carter but this was far worse than I ever felt with him. So, I was a bit concerned just because it hurt so much.

The doctor said that the walk that I did last week must have triggered the sciatica to flare up and I'm now very inflammed. She said basically the only two courses of action were to try 400mg of Motrin every six hours for 24 hours. If that works, we could stick with that until about 36 weeks. If not, she will write me a script for a few sessions of physical therapy. So, hopefully the stronger medicine will help more than the Tylenol was. And hopefully once the main inflammation goes down, it will be bearable.

But I can tell you now, if this pain lasts for the next few months, I'm going to go crazy! But at least Allie seems to be doing just fine. Her heartbeat was great and she's still swimming around. So, here's hoping that things die down soon and I can go back to work tomorrow.