Lower back pain?? Please Help!!!!?

Question

I have had very uncomfortable lower back pain for almost a week now. The only relief I get is when I am bent at the waist or sitting. When I stand, or bend my back the other way at all, there is so much pressure and pain. It is very uncomfortable. I have been putting a heating pad on it, and taking aleve, but it's not helping.
Any idea what this could be and how to fix it?????

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Answer 2

In my experience that type of pain is usually just cramps. But pain in your lower back like you explained could be anything from your kidneys to pregnancy. I would probably make an appointment with your family doctor. I hope you feel better!

Answer 3

sounds like sciatica luv. I have had it for months now and i got it by working out the wrong way . Believe it or not actual back exercises done the correct way can help[ ease it. Take anti inflammatorys but make sure you have eaten something at least half an hour before you do otherwise this will seriously irritate your tummy causing more pain , good luck !

Answer 4

If i were you i would get to a doc right away!! Your back is something you don't want to mess around with, i should know.......i had 2 major back surgeries last yr. and had to end up having my lumber fused. I have severe scoliosis and still in alot of pain. I lost 2 inches in height and i believe this caused my body to get all out of whack and now i have to have a total hip replacement. It's been an ongoing nightmare.........and the longer you wait the worse it will get so get to a doctor right away!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

sounds like you might have pulled a muscle...maybe try some sports creme...'hot ice', or theralgesic, and then maybe take 3-200mg ibuprofen and 1 extra strength 500mg tylenol to reduce any inflammation. That combo is what my dentist says to take for dental pain and is equivalent to taking 2 Vicodin for pain....I take it, and it really does work well for pain. Try alternating ice and heating pad to stimulate healing...but not only just heat because that will make it more inflamed...

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Answer 7

Consult your doctor since this pain is almost a week!

Answer 8

Sleep on floor and dont use pillow,

Answer 9

An Injury, Not A Condition
The majority of back pain comes from bad standing, sitting, and bending habits. The strain and pressure of letting your body weight grind on your joints over years of bad mechanical habits causes pain, and leads to arthritis, curvatures, impingements, and bad discs. Just as smoking one cigarette at a time eventually can cause trouble, back pain almost always develops from years of simple bad habits. Back pain that comes on suddenly is like a heart attack that developed over years.

Chronic Bad Standing and Reaching Overhead
You know you're not supposed to stand slouched so that your low back arches, but you do it. Most people arch their back every time they reach overhead, or look up, or try to "stand straight" by pulling their shoulders back. Then they go to the gym and the trainers tell them to arch their back and stick their behind out when exercising. This is a major cause of back pain. Test yourself now. Reach overhead. Does your back arch? When you pull your shoulders back to "fix" your posture, do you arch your back to do it? Instead tuck your hip without bending forward or leaning back, to take the large arch out of your back when you do other things like lift overhead or stand up. When you get your upper body weight off your low back by reducing the arch, you will immediately feel reduction in low back pain and pressure. Exercise magazines say "use neutral spine" but then they show exercises done with the low back arched to an unhealthy degree. It is not sexy, it is a sloppy posture. It is as bad a habit as smoking. More on this follows.

Chronic Bad Bending and Lifting
You know not to lift things by bending over at the waist. But you do it - all day -picking up socks, petting the dog, for laundry, trash, making the bed, looking in the refrigerator, and all the dozens of times you bend over things. Then you go to the gym and lift weights bent over, then stretch by bending forward, do yoga bending over, then lift and carry things bent forward. No wonder your back hurts.


All this forward bending (flexion) weakens back muscles, strains soft tissue, and pushes your discs to the back (posteriorly). Over years the disc moves back until it is sticking out (herniated, or "slipped"). The resulting herniation can press on nearby nerves. This is how you get a "pinched nerve," also called "impingement." If it presses on your sciatic nerve, you get sciatic pain down your leg. If you slouch your head forward all the time, you can push discs backward in your neck, sending pain down the nerves in your arm.


Tight muscles can also press on the same nerves mimicking sciatica. A degenerating disc is not a disease, but a simple, mechanical injury that can heal, if you just stop grinding it and physically pushing it out of place with terrible habits.


What To Do
Back pain often comes and goes. People desperate for relief during acute episodes try strange things. Don't fall for pills, gadgets, and potions. Most back pain is easily remedied if you change the constant, injurious process of bad body mechanics.

Remember that "doing back exercises," or getting a shot, but not changing the bad habits that hurt in your back in the first place, is like eating cake and ice cream morning, noon, and night, then doing your "exercises." You are not balancing the harm.


Bad Posture 1- Arching When Standing and Carrying Things
Look in any fitness or health magazine and you will see people standing and exercising with their behind stuck out in back. Although trainers and aerobics instructors often tell people to stand this way, it is a major source of back pain.

Allowing your low back to sway, exaggerating the normal inward curve when standing, walking, and reaching allows the weight of your upper body to grind down on your low back. "Sway back" (excessive lordosis) is not a structural condition, but bad posture.

Don't arch under the weight of your handbag, or other things you carry. Don't hunch forward or to the sides. Reduce lordosis by tucking your hip, as if starting to do a crunch but without bending forward. This will straighten your body. Use this technique all the time, particularly when reaching and lifting overhead. Your packages can be a built-in ab exercise. For more, read the article about using abs to help your back on this web site.

Bad Posture 2- Forward Head
Jutting your chin forward is a bad posture called a "forward head." It looks old, creates much neck and upper back pain, and is a prime contributor to herniated cervical discs. Are you sitting with your head forward right now reading this?

Pull your chin in, gently, not stiffly. Don't tip your chin up or down. Use "chin-in" as daily posture, not an "exercise" you only do a few times daily. To practice, stand with your heels, hips, upper back, and the back of your head against a wall. If you can't do this comfortably, you are too tight to stand up straight. This is common. One helpful stretch is to hold both arms up, bent at the elbows, like "a stick up." Don't let your back arch. Pull your elbows back, chin in. Do this many times a day.


Bad Posture 3- Round Back
Slouching when you stand, sit and bend so that your back curves, like an "old person," eventually overstretches the long ligament down the back of your spine, weakens your back muscles, and pushes discs outward. Disc herniations usually result from mechanically pushing them posteriorly with chronic flexion - that means sitting rounded and bending over wrong instead of bending your knees. Are you sitting rounded right now reading this?

Bad Bending and Lifting
People go to the gym and pay a trainer to make them do squats and lunges with an upright back and properly bent knees. Then, they bend over at the waist and pick up their gym bag to go home. Bend properly for everything, even the water fountain, to pick things up from the floor, to look in the refrigerator, or take things out of the dishwasher. Keep your torso upright and bend your knees. Keep your knees over your feet, not slumping forward, which is hard on the knees. Don't stretch by bending over at the waist without supporting your body weight on your hands. Many people are surprised to find that they injure their back doing forward yoga stretches. You wouldn't pick up a package that way. It is not really a surprise.

Don't hunch forward under the weight of the things you carry. It is not the pack on your back making you slouch. It is not using your muscles to counter the pull, that is the problem. Check your posture against a wall, described above, each chance you get: in the elevator, against a wall or door jam. When you walk away, keep your great new posture.


Strengthening And Stretching Is Crucial But Not The Whole Answer
Tight, weak muscles cannot do their job and easily cry out in fatigue and stress during motions that in-shape muscles easily support. Strengthening is needed, but will not automatically "give" you good posture or make you bend and move properly. Plenty of slightly people stand properly with no back pain. Plenty of muscular people have terrible posture, gait, and lifting habits, and the back pain that comes with it. You just need to retrain bad habits. Take our fun classes No More Back Pain, Stretch and Feel Better, The Ab Revolution, Lower Body Revolution, and others.