How do you deal with the back pain caused from an epidural?

Could y extreme back pain been caused by my pregnancy?

• Im 20 weeks pregnant tomoro and have been having slight back pain throughout my whole pregnancy so far. However last night i woke up at about 2am with an extremely sore back, not just one part of my back either, the whole thing. Mainly my shoulder blades and then down both sides. I was in so much pain, i couldnt lye down in bed. I tried to lye on the ground but that was too sore. I asked my fiance to take me to hospital but he was too asleep to even know what was going on. I couldnt find any pain killers to take so i battled through the pain crying and stuff. I was also having really bad pain if i tried to take a deep breath and right below my ribs. I was also having hot flushes too. After 3 hours i was able to go back to bed and finally fell asleep. When i woke up this morning i had no pain or anything, its all gone. So could it have been my baby on a nerve? No im not going to bother going to the dr. I feel it would be a waste of money as they usually cant tell you whats going on unless its still happening while you are at the dr

• Answer:

  your baby may be pressing on a nerve causing this pain