I just thought I would share this personal experience with you. I hope that it helps someone else out there that may be going through the same thing! When my daughter was 11 months old I went to the emergency room with a strange pain in my right side. (It was just annoying dull pain at first, but then got worse where I could barely stand it through out the day.) Of course it took so long to be seen I was feeling fine by the time I got to see a doctor.
I was told that I most likely had a syst on my ovary that ruptured. I did not feel the pain again until exactly 1 year later. I set up an appointment with at my OBGYN's office and they had me come in for yet another ultra sound. Again, I was told the same thing, that I probably had a syst that ruptured.
I started tracking this over the next couple of years. I really did think that it was happening about every other month. Then in June of 2007 this pain became so great I could barely function, but was determined to anyway because of my career and family. There were moments that the pain was so great I fell on the floor. I describe the pain as labor with no medication.
I finally convinced my doctor's office to get me in when I was in pain for another ultra sound. I ended up having 2 in one month. As I met with my doctor for the results she indicated that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me female wise anyway. She asked if I ever had back problems.
The answer to that was yes. I had a slip and fall accident when I was 23 years old on some ice. I literally broke down into tears begging the doctor for help. After 3 years of this I couldn't take it any more.
She sent me to a pain doctor who did two nerve blocks. The first one is to see if it relieved me from pain. It seemed to so they did it again. If that one would have worked, then they would have hit the nerve and basically burned it so I would not have any more feeling of impulses in that nerve. The 2nd time I did not have the same results.
It was horrible because that doctor basically dropped me on my butt! It was depressing, but I was determined to find out what is going on. It is not exactly like you can ignore the problem when it puts you flat on the floor when you least expect it.
I was set up with the best pain clinic in the area I live. However, it would take 2 weeks to even get in to do paperwork. I decided to call my family doctor.
I went in and saw my family doctor where she said no way to any thing on my ovary. She could not believe any one would have even said that. However, she felt it was a muscle that is as she called it "very tricky." She sent me to a physical therapist so I cancelled my appointment with the other pain clinic.
I ended up having a wonderful therapist who discovered that my "sit bone" on the left side was higher than the right side. He said that my pelvic bones were 3" off and because of that my body was compensating and there is a muscle that comes around the spine and wraps down to the pelvic bone area and that was causing severe muscle spasms.
So you are probably thinking...no biggie take a muscle relaxant and call it a day. The only way I can describe the pain is like being in labor with no medication to help. Even 800 mg of motrin would barely cut the edge off. The muscle spasm is so deep that even muscle relaxants will not help most of the time.
I went through 2 months of therapy and now I have exercises to do at home. However, everything is not hunky dory at this time. I still struggle each and every day with this. (However, I am thankful that it is something that is not serious like having to remove an ovary, have cancer or something like that.)
What happened is since I had a slip and fall accident my pelvic bones were already more mobile than a normal woman. Therefore, when I had my daughter and the chemicals were released so that my pelvic bones would open to have her, it kind of messed me up.
My therapist thought it made sense that this occurred 11 months after I had her, because I am one of those Mom's that would carry my daughter on my hip. So it kind of threw me off.
Just thought I would share since it is 3 years of going through testing and pain. I truly hope this info helps someone out!
