I wake up with pain in my right hip and lower back, the pain is so bad it wakes me up at night. Help!?

Question

I wake up at night with horrible pain in my right hip, lower back. What can I do to relieve the pain? I get the pain out of the blue. Right now, I've had it for 2 weeks and I'm so exhausted. I'm unable to function this way since it hurts to move. The doctor can't find anything wrong but something has to be wrong since it hurts so bad. He gave me Lyrica but I'm without relief. It didn't even help one bit. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and my doctor couldn't find anything either. My boss is a strong advocate of chiropractic and suggested I go (I'd never seen one before and believed the nasty stories I'd heard).

Well, I put it off for a long time until I was so sleep deprived and in pain, I finally went. The chiropractor was amazing! First, he insisted that I get an x-ray, and after going over it, explained that I had a subluxation (nerve pinch) between vertebrae and then he gently adjusted my hip and lower back. I slept through the night for the first time! After that, I went two times a week for a while, then once a week, and now I go when I feel the first twinges of discomfort. As a bonus, I haven't had a migraine since I began going (I used to have to take time off work due to them, and I was on Fiorinal with 1/2 gram of codeine!).

Definitely ask your co-workers, family or friends if they use a chiropractor or check the internet for a list of them in your city and get adjusted! It made all the difference for me!

Wishing you good health!

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Answer 3

My mother has had SEVERAL surgeries on her back and neck due to doctors saying she had herniated disk and deteriorating disk BLAH BLAH BLAH... Well she was hurting really bad in her lower back, hip, and down her leg so bad that she couldn't walk one night.. My dad took her to the ER where they admitted her in the hospital.. The next day her back surgen came in and told her that they were gonna have to operate again on her lower back.. As the nurses was prepping her for surgery, she noticed that moms right foot was slightly cooler than her left to the touch, so she called another doctor in.. As a result, the vein that comes straight from her heart and Y's off at the abdomen was 100% blocked on the right side and 98% on the left.. They also found a blod clot in her lower leg.. Doc said if that had broke loose, she would have died... They done emergency bypass surgery on her to restore bloodflow to her legs.. Doc says that was her problem all along, and not her back... That was over 2 years ago, and she's been pain free and can even jog now... Sad part of story is, my Dad died this past January from a blood clot that was in his leg that did break loose. He had been having pains for a while, but they never told me, and he NEVER went to doctors... Well now he's gone, and it could have been prevented... The doctor said that circulation problems are the number one reason for lower back, hip, and leg pains, and is overlooked more than any other diagnosis.. You just have to ask your doc to check it, or they will automatically assume you need to see a back specialist...

Answer 4

You can go to, whatever we're calling them.. your general / family doctor, for ANYTHING. You don't have to think about which specialist you need to see, etc., because your regular doctor will do that for you. So, make an appointment and go see your doctor, unless it's an emergency or you're totally incapacitated... which it doesn't sound like. You probably strained your back. This is not as hard as it sounds to do. You can sit in an odd position for a couple of hours and strain your back. Your doctor will probably prescribe muscle relaxants and anti-inflammatories. This clears up a lot of cases. If you continue to have chronic problems they may send you to physical therapy a couple of times a week. You're a little young to have to worry about your discs, but your doctor may take a couple of x-rays to make sure. Feel better soon.

Answer 5

as all the people above mentioned it could be any of them problems, or you could have a very tight muscle from where you been sleeping a certain way and it tightened up so much it cant do nothing and therefore it pulls your hip out of alignment thus makin the pain worse..

My advice would be go see a chiropractor first and if he cant find nothing at all, aside from muscle issues, ask him to refer you to a massage therapist..it will take more than 1 visit if you see a MT but it will help you in the long run if you do not have any of the problems as mentioned above.

Answer 6

Do you sleep on your side? That might be a cause.

When my back is giving me a problem I put a thin bed pillow on the mattress across where my back goes and stay flat on my back to sleep. Two Excedrin before bed and this works great.

Have someone massage asparcream into your back or a menthol rub cream to relieve the pain. It works wonders.

Answer 7

My mom had the same pain you described and she had a herniated disk. Did they check for that? It takes an MRI to see it. If so, then maybe the answer is simply to get a new mattress, one that takes stress off the pressure points, like a temper pedic

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