Please tell me that having a baby hurts less than this...

[geminigirl]

I hurt my back today. Not just the usual twinge sort of thing, but on the ground in tears. With packing and moving boxes around, I probably got careless and moved a heavy box incorrectly, and bang!

I've never done this before. I ended up on my living room floor. The cell phone was in my pocket. I called my mother, hoping she would have some suggestions. I called Cayne. I tried to get up. I called my mother again. Several hours later, I'd managed to scoot over the the futon, and get myself vertical. IN the interim, Cayne had called twice, and IMd me, Mom had also called. Cayne had also called Mom because he was worried.

I have never experienced pain like this ever. I in fact said the title of this post to my mother during one of our phone calls.

The pain...that I can get through. I've got some percocet, some robaxin and some tylenol w/codeine in the house. That will hold me until Cayne gets here tomorrow and can take me to the doctor, if necessary. In the meantime, I'm not moving much. (I'm unlikely to be able to make it down all the stairs tonight even if I wanted to go tonight.)

The worst part of this all is that we were supposed to go to my Mom's this weekend for her birthday. I hate missing Mom's birthday. I was supposed to bring home a carrot cake (which I hadn't baked yet, fortunately.) I'm upset about that more than anything.

But really. Please tell me that having a baby hurts less than what this hurt like earlier.

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

:light hugs:
Oof. Good you have random drugs around.

[fortryll.livejournal.com]

I used to throw my lower back out every year or so...it was *horrible*. I have never felt pain like that, and I've had multiple bone surgeries! The good thing is that if it's something like what I had, it'll get better daily and be almost gone in three to five days (mine was something to do with the sacroiliac thingie).

[fortryll.livejournal.com]

Oh shoot, I forgot to actually post what I intended! If you need anything, call me, ok? I will have the cell near the bed. Don't worry about waking me up.

[geminigirl]

Thanks. Mostly what I need are painkillers/muscle relaxants, just to get through until I feel better. If it's not okay when Cayne gets here, I'll make an appointment with the doctor.

[fj.livejournal.com]

Move as little as possible. Piss in a bottle if you have to. Give it absolute rest as much as you can the first two days.

[geminigirl]

Moving actually isn't bad. That seems to help keep me from getting too stiff, as long as I do it gently and slowly and not too frequently. It's getting up that hurts a lot.

The timing of this is less than ideal. I've got packing to do.

[9thmoon.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I'm so sorry. This couldn't have happened at a worse time, huh? I seem to throw out my back every year and a half or so and end up in physical therapy. I'll hope that all you need is a day or two on a soft couch with good drugs. *gentle hug*

[posthaste.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope you feel better soon *hugs*

(And I'm not touching that having a baby question with a ten foot pole. I still remember clutching the bedrails and screaming...sorry)

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Make sure you get to the doctor's and have that checked out!!!!

[lala2.livejournal.com]

I think you should get checked at the doctors....just in case. Sounds miserable and I agree with the advice you've received thus far. Rest. Rest. Then....you should rest.

[kellfire.livejournal.com]

Blowing the disk in my back hurt much much more than having either of my children did, (and i had drugs with the back, none with the kids) breaking my cocxxyx bone was somewhere in between.

i think you, and everyone here is on the right track ~ however if it does continue and the docs give you any shit, insist on a mylogram ~ not fun, but it get's a much much better pic than an xray or MRI.

*hugsss*

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

*gentle hugs* Okay, voice of experience on the back pain front... do not fuck around with it. If it hurts when Cayne gets there, go to a doctor. period. Even if you're thinking, "Well, it doesn't hurt as much as it did yesterday." Because I know how easy it is to say, "I'll just wait it out." And if they tell you that you just strained it, and give you muscle relaxers and pain killers and it feels better after a couple of weeks and then it acts up again later, do not let them brush you off.

I can't speak on the childbirth front, but I do know that I never ever ever ever ever want to go through again what I've gone through in the last six months so if there's even the remotest chance that childbirth is like it, I'm really out of that game.

[nadeera.livejournal.com]

Ditto on what everyone else says - and see a doctor even if it feels a little better. I think its best to track these things because they do get better and worse.

The pain sucks and I really am sorry you are going through this *hugs*.

[wait.livejournal.com]

Babies are supposed to come out.

Sounds horribly painful. Is the pain just in your back, or is it effecting the mobility of your arms and legs as well?

*hugs*

[geminigirl]

My arms are fine...when I first did this, my arms hurt. Coughing, and trying to breathe too deeply hurt a lot at the moment, as do my legs a bit-but it's more that when I move certain ways the pain shoots down my legs, or when I move my legs certain ways, the pain shoots up my back.

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

That happened to me once. It was horrible. With what I did, the pain came on somewhat slowly, but by the morning after it happened, it took me ages just to crawl to the bathroom. (It happened to me when I took 2 bottles of soda out of the trunk of the car, and just felt like a momentary weakness at the time.)

The worst part about it was that my doctor just told me to take Aleve for it, and my father couldn't prescribe anything stronger across state lines. I didn't notice any difference whether or not I took the Aleve, and was so mad that I bothered to drag myself to the doctor's office in such horrible pain just to be told something so useless.

I'm sure your mother understands that this is going to make you miss her birthday. I know you feel bad about it, but there's nothing you can do about it. She'll be fine.

[geminigirl]

She was the one who suggested that we not go out there.

I'm not sure I could manage driving, or I'd try and get an appointment for today-I think I'll wait until Cayne gets here. I'd be dangerously slow at moving from one pedal to the other.

Since you will understand the amusingness of this next part...I ended up on the floor near the kitchen and dining room table. I realized that the best place to try and stand up was probably near the futon, because it was low enough in height that I could get my upper body on it and rest it there while I waited for it to stop hurting enough to try and move more. So I sort of slithered across the floor very slowly in that general direction. Beta couldn't seem to figure out why I was on the floor and kept coming over to try and play or get petted. Finally, he decided that I was in his way-he wanted to go to the kitchen, and I was still trying to turn the corner to get to the futon. So he decided that he'd use his amazing leaping powers and jump over me. It was sort of...Odd and very Beta like. At least he didn't land on me.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Youch!

Everyone else has given you good advice, so I'll just add my gentle hugs and good vibes!

[minikin.livejournal.com]

I've heard from many mothers who have also had back pain, that the back pain is much worse.

My partner, Knight, ruptured a disk over a year ago, and his doctor anticipates two more years before complete recovery, although his daily pain is gone.

Treat this seriously. Get to a doctor; follow the instructions; take the meds; don't assume you're healed just because the pain goes away.

I've had gas from stomach virii that caused more painful cramping than my labors, but I'd have to say none of my fistings have ever left me with the amazing soreness after the vaginal delivery. Should've taken the perineal massage homework much more seriously, before delivery.

[onlyblossom.livejournal.com]

Back pain and tooth pain are the worst your hole body just kills you. yeah even if you get better still go see the doc sugar. i had given my grand daughter bone marrow and it hurt but not as bad as back pain as it didn't last that long. *soft hugs*

[katishna.livejournal.com]

ouch, you poor thing :( I did that once lifting a tower-cpu-sized UPS, twisted wrong and i thought i was going to die. I really really recommend accepting all the painkillers and muscle relaxants they'll give you, doing as little as possible for at least a week, and overall just relaxing. And be aware that it's likely that you can overstrain that part of your body more easily in the future, so be careful, ok?

Oh and I'd rather give birth again, pitocin and all, than hurt my back like that again. Although you do get more sleep after a back injury, the pain was so much worse than childbirth.

So sorry

[maxdwolf.livejournal.com]

I used to have back pains on a semi-annual basis that were only slightly less debilitating. If childbirth hurt that much our species would have died out.

*hugs*

[cmariewt.livejournal.com]

Ooooh God. There is almost NOTHING worse than hurting your back like that. Almost nothing. Ever had a REALLY bad toothache? Yeah, those take the cake.