I need pain relief while pregnant | Arthritis Information

 

Sorry to trouble you again.

I have established that i cannot take the sulfasalazine or the diclofenic because i am pregnant.

But my doctor has said i can take the codeine phosphate!..I am unsure because i do not want to harm my unborn baby.

Please please help me, i am in so so so much pain, i can barely walk even as far as the toilet!! alexi2008-07-26 12:13:53Oh, I hope you feel better!  How far along are you?  I thought that symptoms somethimes got better during pregnancy.  I would talk to my doctor, but I have had 2 children and am hoping to have another one/my last one in the near future and in my personal opinion I wouldn't take anything stronger than a tylenol but that's just me.  Hope to hear you are feeling better soon!reegie, i do feel the same about the pain relief side but i just feel like i need something!!  But i just don't know what.
I am only 6 weeks pregnant and i know i can go into partial or full remission by the time i reach my second trimester..Lets just hope thats correct information, huh? Good luck for you, getting pregnant. That part of it is fine for me. Other than sore breasts, i have no symptoms. I was pregnant a few years back.  Unfortunately it ended in a miscarriage (I was 36 at the time and also had been using the hot tub and sauna alot before I knew I was pregnant).  My rheumatologist said that if I had a need for pain relief while pregnant, I could take tylenol, occasional vicodin, and corticosteroids if needed.  Definitely talk to your doctor. Go ahead and take what your doctor has prescribed. I work in the ER, we give pregnant people pain medication all the time. The only time pain meds would have a drastic effect on the baby is if you took it just before delivery, the baby's respiratory drive can be effected then. However, pregnant women get pain meds while laboring (thank God!).Thank you for your advice.

I feel like if i don't take anything tonight it will have a worse affect because the pain is stopping me from sleeping too!!

I think as long as i am not taking it ALL the time, i should be ok.

Of course please check with your doctor but I thought prednisone was okay.  May be worth seeing if your insurance or something will cover accupuncture?  Maybe try those heat wraps they are selling now?  Fingers crossed that you go into remission!!I'm not big on pred but during a pregnancy even I would think about it for a flareHope you feel better soon! Being pregnant should be a happy time-- sorry the RA is complicating things!congratulations!!

I was diagnosed as a teen so I had to come off the ra meds to become pregnant. Of course...flare city. I never had a remisson. I was under a ton of stress during pregnancy (divorce-fun) so I took pred. to manage most of the swelling and pain. There is a side effect of pre-term labor. My son was born 6 weeks early-but he was healthly. We don't know if it was the pred or not since I was a preemie, my sister was a preemie, and her son was also a preemie. We are just really efficient in my family--who needs nine months? Anyway, trust what the dr. told you. Was it you RD who mentioned it? If you are really unsure, check with your OB. Being in pain causes stress and high blood pressure---also not good for the baby. You gotta take care of yourself and that will help your little one.

Congrats on the baby. Keep us posted on how you are doing. Most people do go into remission. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!I first had RA pain after my second child , I was dx and had never felt so much pain.  I can still remember my mother saying to me, that the doctors were stupid as there was no RA in our family.  When I fell pregnant with my 3rd child the pain went, I never thought any more about it until 4years ago my mother died and two weeks after I woke with pain in my neck, which was the start of RA again. So all these years (20) I was in remission.  I will keep my fingers crossed for you!!!! I don't know how you mothers out there do it with RA. you are my hero'sI took prednisone during the first trimester of my pregnancy and it helped me enormously.  My doctors said that taking prednisone early on is generally no problem - they just don't like you to be on it late into the third trimester, although some people have to be.  I went into remission like clockwork when the second trimester hit - I wish the same for you!  Things started flaring again towards the end of the third, but I managed without meds until the birth. First of all, congratulations on your pregnancy!