Hello,
I have a 7 week old girl and 2 weeks ago I
started to get a pain in my shoulders, now
it is in a big numder of joints, foot,
knee, hands, shoulders, fingers etc... it
is like arthritis but we do not have it in
the family and I do not have all
sympthoms, hair loss, tiredness etc...
Have anyone heard of this that it comes
postnatal and disspears after a while?
Then how lonh? should I change my food in
any direction????
Really relly looking for advice
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mominashoe
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Posted: 04-04-08 10:49am
Congrats on the new baby!
I don't think you have arthritis...I mean
I guess you could, but for the pain to
come suddenly like this, it rather
indicates that it is not arthritis. I
think you have what most moms get: a
general post-partum fatigue. Your joints
are trying to go back to normal as your
hormones are switching over to the
non-pregnant hormones, and you won't be
as flexible as you were during pregnancy.
Plus there's the fact that you are holding
the baby quite a bit and picking her up
and putting her down is going to make
everything ache, not matter how light she
is.
As far as I know, arthritis does not cause
hair loss or tiredness.
Warm baths while the baby is sleeping,
plus a supplement of Calcium and Magnesium
should help with your tired and aching
joints and muscles.
I don't know what your diet is like, so I
don't know what you would need to add or
take away besides the supplements I
mentioned above.
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Nileprincess
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Posted: 04-07-08 16:25pm
Thanks for your answer!!
I really hop it is not - but all sympthoms
seems to be, but it behaves a bit strange
to meet all the criteria for arthritis...
I can have a horrible pain in my knees for
a week of which I can hardly walk for two
days and the other days I walk like a 90
years old then one day after
that I weak up with stiff arms and the
knees are better and so it goes round.
Maybe it is post-partum fatigue and all
the stress a delivery involves? When does
the hormones in teh body setlle? 3 months
after giving birth?
My diet is a mix of everything- low on fat
otherwise quite a mix of everything. I do
take supplements of Calcium and Omega and
a multivitiamin
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mominashoe
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Posted: 04-07-08 17:46pm
Nileprincess
wrote:
Maybe it is post-partum fatigue and all
the stress a delivery involves? When does
the hormones in teh body setlle? 3 months
after giving birth?
Yes that sounds right! Just give yourself
time, especially if your baby needs extra
care. Your hormones will settle when they
want...it's different for everyone lol,
but three months is a good time to expect
things to get back to more reasonable.
When your cycles start back up is
completely back to "normal". Just think
about how much extra weight you carried
around while you were pregnant and how
much you had to do, plus what you have to
do now: it's tough on your body.
I hope you feel better soon. If you still
are afraid that it's arthritis, of course
you can call your doctor.
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Nileprincess
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Posted: 04-08-08 09:44am
Thanks!!
Yes I have been to the doctor- and first
he thought it was nothing. But the
analysis showed that I do have an
inflamation in my body so he want me to
come back for more analysis. I am just
afraid that he will say that I have
arthritis - so I was looking if one could
have "post natal arthritis" that has
exacly the same sympthoms but dissapeard
after the body goes back to normal.
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mominashoe
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Posted: 04-08-08 13:17pm
Yup, it probably is just water retention,
which can hurt just as badly! You can be
retaining more water, especially if you
had your baby at the hospital and had IVs,
which are salt based....and we all know
lots of salt makes for lots of water
retention!
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then one day after
that I weak up with stiff arms and the
knees are better and so it goes round.
