Sore Fingers :/

[DebbieM]

OK, this is going to sound really odd.... BUT... do any of you breastfeeders out there suffer from sore fingers or other sore joints?

The reason I ask is because my fingers hurt SOOOOOO much that I feel like I have arthritis in them or something. I struggle to grab things with my fingers and don't have a lot of strength in them at the moment. The joints really hurt all the time and are worse in the night and morning. I even had to ask Matt to open a bottle of water for me last night

We looked it up and apparently, the "Relaxin" hormone that you produce in pregnancy, stays with you for as long as you breastfeed and because that softens everything, it can affect your fingers and such like too. It can literally make you feel like you are suffering from arthritis as I said above. Not nice!

Does anyone else have anything like this or am I a singleton on this one? LOL

 

[pilkers]

ooh just spotted this and I have the same...it was terrible after the birth and still hasn't gone.

my doctor diagnosed a form of arthiritis...I'll hunt out the original post I made.x

 

[pilkers]

here you go...

http://www.pregnancyforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=68249

my doctor called it polyarthropathy... I didn't BF by the way

Hope you gets over it quickly...mine are still as bad though almost 6 months on. I've had every test possible and no treatment or cure

 

[DebbieM]

oh no... it won't be going soon then, lol