A pregnant Zoe Foster-Blake. Source: News Corp Australia

In a post on her blog zotheysay.com, the wife of comedian Hamish Blake said Osteitis Pubis is still affecting her and despite significant treatment has meant she is only able to walk for an hour and still cannot run.

With her trademark wit and humour, Foster-Blake explained that she was limping non-stop and put on crutches for the last five weeks of her pregnancy.

Zoe Foster-Blake and Hamish Blake’s gorgeous son, Sonny. Source: Instagram

“I assumed once my baby was out the issue would rack off, (like my gestational diabetes did – magic!) but it didn’t, it became inflamed again within a couple of weeks. I noticed I was limping again after something as nothingy as a walk around the block to get some fresh air, I got very shirty indeed, and my husband and I asked everyone in the world we knew who could help. “I dearly wished to roam the streets with Sonny for sanity and exercise and to buy more cake.”

Foster-Blake explains that Osteitis Pubis, is “a chronic pubic condition caused by inflammation of the pubic symphysis (the joint between the left and right pubic bones), erosion of the joints, and calcification of the muscles joined to it.”

On top of that she had also had fracture of the left pubis and tendinitis of the adductors and glutes.

She said the condition sometimes left her in a “dark place”.

Hamish, Zoe and baby Sonny on a recent trip. Source: Instagram

Gorgeous Sonny Blake, who was born in May this year. Source: Instagram

“People with OP get very, very down about it, because it can take a very, very long time to heal, and may never heal, in fact. I was in a bit of a dark place one day, suffering cabin fever and unable to walk without pain even upstairs to put Sonny down for his naps, (holding his delicious, pudgy frame was “unadvisable” in general because it inflamed things … I’m all like, yo, have you seen him? He’s impossible not to hold and squish) so I went into Nuclear Google Mode, which is like normal Googling, but with desperation, caffeine and no set time limit on finding what you want.”

It was then she sought treatment from Garry Miritis, who was Cathy Freeman’s masseuse her entire career and known for “curing” OP.

Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster in November this year. Source: Getty Images

The pain got far worse as the weeks went on, it was now in my groin and back, and once I realised I was limping non-stop (around 34 weeks) I saw a third physio, who immediately put me on crutches for the last five weeks of my pregnancy, which sucked a doz. (Some women are given wheelchairs, so I got off lightly.) (Also: Imagine being on crutches plus pregnancy plus having other children! Christ on a cracker!)

Foster-Blake now sees an osteo 2-3 times a week and has weekly Myotherapy sessions.

So how is she now?

“Despite a much better sacroiliac joint (lower back) and stronger glutes I still have pain each day around my iliac crest, hips and groin, and the inflammation worsens with bad weather (really!) period pain (unfair!) and overuse (IKEA visits!) but it is much, much better. I have some hip bone stuff I’ll need to keep an eye on but with strength I should be able avoid that worsening.”

Zoe Foster Blake on holiday in a picture posted on her Instagram. Source: Instagram