What does a severe lower back pain suggest?

Answer 1

Most likely a herniated disk or sciatica. I have both and it can be excruciating at time but I've dealt with it this long and the best treatment is muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatory and pain medicines. However, exercise and yoga has helped me more than any of the pain meds.

Answer 2

Back Pain Lower Back Pain Risks and Causes of Lower Back Pain

Causes of Low Back Pain
Lower back pain is generally blamed on poor back-muscle tone, muscle tension or spasms, back sprains, tears in ligaments or muscles, and joint problems. Sometimes nerves, as they leave the spinal cord, can be irritated by slipped disks. Such irritation can cause pain in the buttocks or legs and numbness, tingling, or weakness in the legs.

The causes of lower back pain are not clear, but recent research has provided some valuable insights. Autopsy studies have shown that people who had lower back pain also had characteristic soft tissue injuries. In particular, small tears of the connective tissue membranes that link the outer shell of the disk to the vertebrae appeared to be responsible for the pain experienced. When these membranes tear, bleeding, inflammation, and swelling occur. The chemical by-products of this tissue damage make the normally alkaline disk acidic. The acidity then irritates neighboring nerves and causes the lower back pain.

Because the disks do not have a blood supply of their own, enhanced fluid exchange is the only mechanism for improving cell nutrition and for removing offending chemical agents and excess acidity. Fluid exchange can be accomplished by physically moving extracellular fluid into and out of the disks by moving the spine. If time passes without adequate mobilization, the biochemical and mechanical changes caused by the soft tissue injury become less reversible, and the chances increase that the lower back pain will become chronic.
Very rarely, low back pain is caused by an underlying condition that requires medical attention, such as neurological disease, cancer, or infection. When this happens, back pain appears together with specific additional symptoms. It then becomes necessary to seek medical attention. These symptoms are as follows:
loss of bowel or bladder control
pain so severe that you are unable to move
numbness in the groin or rectal area
extreme weakness in one or both legs
fever just before the pain started
recent serious illness that required treatment
pain that awakens you
If a new episode of back pain involves a loss of bowel or bladder control, call your physician or healthcare professional or visit a clinic immediately. If you experience any of the other warning signs, call your physician or healthcare professional to schedule an appointment.

Unless you have one of these symptoms along with back pain, a medical examination of an aching back will generally not result in a particular diagnosis. Because there is often no relationship between physical damage and pain, diagnostic tests and studies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are of uncertain value, unless there are specific additional symptoms that appeared together with the low back pain.

Answer 3

You might be drinking too much soda. I started developing kidney pain from soda, I started drinking green tea, and water more often and cut the soda back to 2Liter or less a week, and the back pain went away. Try this first, Also take some Naproxin Sodium (Generic for Aileve)

Answer 4

Slipped or ruptured disc, sciatic nerve pain, infection, referred pain from something else, bladder infection.

Answer 5

kidney infection