Fed up of aches and pains...

[Nic36]

It's almost 15 weeks since I gave birth and I am wondering if I am ever going to feel like my old self again. I just seem to have constant aches and pains that I never had before. Honestly, I feel like giving birth has aged me by a good twenty or thirty years.

Tonight I just feel like crying. I spent the first couple of months with really bad piles, so could barely sit down with my baby. For the last couple of weeks my wrists have been agony - it's getting harder and harder to pick up and carry my LO as my wrists are so painful.
I am still leaking 'down there', which can't be right after almost 15 weeks.. . And it's painful too. . I'm scared to go to the GP cos I feel sure they'll tell me I am permanently damaged. I feel like such a mess - my body is ruined. . Oh and hair is falling out by the handful.

I just want my old body back...

 

[TORino]

Aw hun

It can take a good while to get yourself feeling ok again. Are you doing your pelvic floor exercises? I swear that these helped my bits go back to normal, though I did have a strange falling out feeling for quite a while.

I'm with you on the hair thing though, mines falling out too

 

[Mrs. KM]

Ah my hair has just started falling out! My knees are what kill me... So sore, I think from always getting up and down from the floor, and when I get up for middle of the night feeds, I am sooo stiff all over. I don't know about the leaking though. Have you spoken to anyone about that?

 

[Nic36]

Haven't spoken to anyone... Scared they will tell me I'm ruined forever. Haven't been doing my pelvic floors as much as I should. . Going t start doing them religiously and hope it's nt too late.

 

[Mrs. KM]

I am sure you're not ruined! Pelvic floors should help

 

[TORino]

Not too late hun. How about doing them each time you feed baby?

 

[Nic36]

Not too late hun. How about doing them each time you feed baby?

That's a good idea. I need to build them into my routine otherwise I just forget to do them. I'm terrible! God I hope it's not too late!

 

[mum2b410]

Don't ever think its too late to start pelvic floor hun! Sorry u feel this way but I honestly think ur body probably needs a bit more time to recover- did u have a difficult birth? Piles r horrible to have so can understand how that hasn't helped. I think aches and pains r partly to do with body adjusting to not having baby inside anymore, plus being so tired and having to carry on looking after LO all the time! ......Try to b brave and c ur GP coz it may well put ur mind at rest completely! And if not then u will have taken the first step to get things sorted- both positive outcomes!....It took me ages to feel any sense of normality physically, but it took 9months to make my little man, so my body can have 9 months to recover iykwim xxx