Apparently, a few days of taking Motrin did the trick. My back now is much better. I have cut back on taking them and by Monday, the doctor wants me to stop taking it. Hopefully I can stay on top of it now and if it starts hurting a little bit, I can take Tylenol or something to try to keep the inflammation down.
Other than that, things are going well. Still have the heartburn every now and then. That's always fun. But, I'll take it over the horror stories I've heard of other people's pregnancies!
Watching Little Einsteins yet again with Carter. We have limited his movie watching since he has been acting out at school so we are sticking with some Playhouse Disney stuff. While I like the shows, OnDemand really needs to get more than just four episodes of each show on their listings! After noon, Disney changes to all the tweeny shows and Carter doesn't really care for them. So in the evening, if I don't have any shows on DVR, we have to resort to the OD shows. Yippie!! But he has fun. He's really getting into the participation part of the show. For so long he would just watch it while playing. Now he does the motions and finds the things they are looking for. He's watched Chris play World Tour enough that he pretends to be playing the drums when the music plays. I'll have to take some pictures of it...it's adorable!
So, Chris and I are apparently having some desention of how to spell the baby's name. We always liked Alison with one L. But I like Allie as the shortened version. Chris doesn't like it with the E. So, since Alli is the name of that weight-loss drug thing, I think it's going to be Alison and shortened to Ali. I don't like that shortened way as much, but it will work. That way, it's not as confusing as how I originally was thinking. Alison Victoria...can't believe she will be here soon.
I'm still not ready just yet to be a mommy of two. I know it will come, but I definitely need the next few months to prepare. We hopefully will be starting to change the rooms around here soon. Once I do that and start shopping for her, I'll start getting more into the excitment. For now, I'm just enjoying watching this belly expand.
Well, it's almost bath time. Then it's storytime. I wonder how many books we'll have to read tonight! :)
Showing posts with label back pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back pain. Show all posts
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
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.
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.