Any Suggestions

[Abla Kabarla]

First did my back in 1990, lying on the setee one night and had a sharp stabbing pain in the base of my spine. Two to three weeks later everything back to normal. Then over the next sixteen years lots of up and downs with my back, back locking in the base and going into spasms-good for sometimes 18 months then spasms, so off to the chiro for manipulation.

Then in Feb I started waking up in the morning with a very stiff lower back, no pain just a bit achy. As there was no pain I just soldiered on waiting for it to go away. In May I went to a chiro who managed to rid the ache and stiffness but I then started to get a sharp pain in lower back, this pain got worse untill it was painfull to sit and stand up, lying down gave me the best relief.I hav'nt been back to the chiro. The pain has now become quite severe, yesterday I hit the deck with bad stabbing pains. The pain is very central in the lower back, I thought it may be a disc problem, but, I have NO leg pain what so ever. My back feels very, very weak, like it's just done a marathon and in between the describes pain it continuesly aches. I am now on the first run of the NHS - back pain clinic, this will hopefully lead onto an MRI.

I am 40 years old. In 95 I was x rayed for Ank Spondylitis, the results were clear then. Dicofenac used to help but no effect now.

Any suggestions,cheers............

 

[ygracyud]

Hi bluenose66
sounds painfull and very common. It is said that 95% of us will suffer with a bad back inour life time. I suffered after a accident at work. I bought a tempur mattress and had chinese massage. Both helped a lot but the most beneficial i've found has to be Reiki. I was told by a back specialist that my spine was crumbeling and i would always suffer and infact would get worse, However after becoming a Reiki practioner i have not had back ache for nearly a year. Highly reccommended

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Thanks for that reply sugarpie, reiki is something I will give some thought and research. Was wondering if anyone could answer the fact that I have no leg/buttock pain, could this still be a disc problem ?. It's just that after so many years of a bad backs and 'just getting on with life', this pain is so much different.

Cheers..........

 

[Pete]

Theoretically - yes, there could be an underlying disc injury.

It sounds like you've done some research and realise that the tyipcal or classic disc injury/herniation/bulge/prolapse results in symptoms in one or both lower limbs.

There are other types of disc injuries i.e. internal derrangement, schmorl's nodes (where the nucleous of the disc bulgesinto the vertebralbody of thevertebrae above or below).

Over 90 % of us have some form ofvertebral disc injury before we curl up our toes, so it'spossibility. Reality is that there are few pain receptor type nerves in the discs themselves and these typeof nerves are relatively spread out in the low back area. So it may well be that is is to one side more than the other.

In short - an MRI if you get onemay give further information as to the condition of your low back, but won't necessarily tell you which tissues are causing the pain.

This Thread may be helpful - [link=http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=351699]http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=351699[/link]

Andrew.

 

[denise t]

Update

I paid for my own MRI and was hoping some one could help me interpretate it and to offer any type of advice into the most appropiate treatment. I am awaiting Physio but was wondering could an osteopath assist. Anyway the report is:

"The lower three lumbar discs are desiccated and degenerate. The L5/S1 disc height is narrowed. There is no focal disc herniation at any level of the lumbar spine. The spinal canal, conus and distal cord are normal. The marrow signal is normal."

The pain is not as sharp as it was but there still a constant ache, this ache has now spread to the left of my upper spine almost below the shoulder blade.My lower back is still very, very weak, I can walk for about 45mins before I have to stop because of sharp pain.