i had a wonderful normal pregnancy. i have horses and was doing chores and very active with them up until the very end. i was even cleaning horse stalls the day before i gave birth with no problem at all!
i had a very difficult labor and pushed for about two hours. the baby's head would start to come out and then go back in. the doctor asked me how big i was as a baby and said that we should be okay since my mom is small also. looking back at this i should have known...
at the end of the two hours the doctor assisted me with the vaccum. at the same time that i delivered my son's head there was a POP and excrutiating pain. i just kept thinking to myself that had to be the worst of it and i just wanted him out. but the shoulders and bum were super painful also. i was in so much shock from the pain that when they told me it was a boy i didn't care. it's not that i didn't care it is just hard to explain. i told the doctor that something was wrong and he said nothing. i looked at the nurse standing next to him and told her that i heard a pop. she said that it was probably my tailbone. i said no way it feels like my pelvis. she said "doctor she heard a pop" no response.
i didn't know what was going on. this was my first baby. is it supposed to be like this?
the pain was terrible i couldn't walk without total help. my pubic bone area was hurt so bad and was swollen and my SI pain on my left side i couldn't even move my leg i had to drag it along.
no one seemed to know what happened and they tried to ignore the situation. in the morning all the doctor did was stick his head in the door and said how are you? i said i didn't know. he said another doctor would be in later to see me. and he left. never came back. it wasn't until the next day that a doctor came to see me and told me that he thought that my pubic bone was seperated and it would take time to heal. he said if it didn't get better that i could have xrays.
i couldn't dress myself, get in or out of bed, i couldn't even answer the phone that was next to my bed because i couldn't turn to the side without severe pain. i kept trying though because the doctor told me to try and keep moving!
i had my son on a wednesday and they sent me home on friday. i thank God for my husband. he dressed me and took care of me and our brand new son and not to mention my nine horses. i was so upset to be so helpless.
i called back to the ob/gyn office a few days later and told them that i wanted xrays. the nurse talked to the doctor that delivered my son for an order and he said he didn't want me to have xrays! just to examine me. he sent me home telling me it would just take time and gave me darvocet and to call in a week. i called and was still in severe pain i demanded xrays and wanted the nurse to speak to a different doctor. she said she would but didn't. again he refused to give me xrays and referred my to an orthopedic.
the first thing he asked was if i had xrays!! so he took some and my pubic bone was much further apart than it should be. he set me up with a pelvic trauma specailist.
the specialist said that it had completely ruptured and hoped that scar tissue would form. and wanted to wait a year to see what happened before we talked surgery. which would be bone grafting and a metal plate to hold me together.
i see him every few months the last time i saw him was six months ago. things have gotten a little better but not great. the pain over the symphysis isn't as great but i feel the bones move. and my SI pain got better at first and now is getting worse and worse. i tell the doctor about the SI pain everytime i see him and ignores it. as the year date got closer he told me he wanted to wait two years for surgery.
i used to show horses on a national level. have national champions and loads of other awards. i can't hardly walk a horse now without worry. i would like to avoid surgery but i also want to get on with my life.
i talked to my family doctor and she has set me up with a pain specailist to address my sacroiliac pain. and better yet set me up with an appt. to go to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for a second opinion.
i feel as though nobody has really helped me. or that they really care. they just give me pain pills and send me on my way. after taking ibprofren for so long i started developing canker sores. it was so terrible. new studies show that ibprofren can cause them. i stopped taking it an no more sores. but that isn't good for my other pain
so i am still waiting to see what will happen.
i'm sorry that this is so long but i wanted to share.
if anyone has had this happen i would be interested in hearing about it.
love to you all
