Thanks for all your kind words, I am just frustrated and the night before last was googling all sorts of things and found lots of forum type things with women with SPD, some saying it went away immediately after giving birth and they felt marvellous! And others saying it was still there umpteen yrs later, and stopping bf made no difference at all, and that hormones played no part and that was all an old wives tale, so I got rather miserable.
CC thanks for reassuring words, that you got better. I just find it so odd that it is still bad, if not worse now, compared to a good 5 months ago, esp across the front of the pubis. I am presuming in an MRI of the pelvis and lower back they will have looked at my pubic symphysis. It isn’t mentioned on the report, so I am assuming that means all is ok there and there's nothing to see, rather than they didn’t scan it in the first place. A few wks ago when I did my parkrun PB the front had stopped hurting altogether. Funnily enough I had just been looking at glute recruiting exercises before reading your post. So I have discovered I can switch on my right glutes fine, but the left are hard to do. I can just about do a wobbly single leg squat on the left but I feel it more in my ankle as I am struggling with balance, more than my glute. I am doing lots of diff glute exercises, and in all of them the right is definitely much more obvious and feels to be getting more of a workout – so should I ignore the right for a bit and just do the left? Or keep doing both?
Ang the osteopath has clunked me, as did the chiropracter before her, and they both could get a good click out of the left SI joint (the good side) but neither could clunk the right, as it is so impacted/stiff/whatever you want to call it.
Recently my right piriformis/glute area has been feeling really tight so I have been stretching and foam rolling like mad. I don’t know if I am going to be able to explain this, but when you push a buggy, those of you that still do it, do you push with your arms or your legs? I find if I'm just walking normally then it is my upper body that does the work, but if I consciously relax my upper body, esp when going up hill, then I can make my legs do the work – is that the right thing to be doing?
JT sounds so horrid, I know when I have my periods of wks of coughing it is awful. They were discussing whooping cough on the today programme this morning and apparently in Chinese it is known as the hundred day cough........you probably didn’t want to hear that!
