Joanna,

If you are pregnant, congrats! It's exciting but also scary given TOS and your recent fall.

You can still medicate during pregnancy but let the doctor(s) guide you. If the pain isn't controlled, then your blood pressure will shoot up which can impact the pregnancy so if the need is there to medicate, the ob-gyn will balance medications with the risk to the baby. I re-tore my ACL during the 1st week of my 1st pregnancy and pinched a nerve in my neck about 2 months later. Between the knee and the nerves, I think the knee was worse. At least the nerves would respond to the pain meds. All I could do was wait for exhaustion to overtake the pain which was usually around 5 or 6 AM and then I only got a few hours of sleep if I was lucky. My son is excelling in school so there was no impact to him for the pain meds they gave me during the pregnancy.