Ever since I was 13 years old, I've always woken up with a stiff back and aching muscles through out the day. I have a rather large busom and I know that contributes to the pain along with the fact that I fell on my tail bone when I was younger and my back has never been the same. I've never thought about going to the doctor for back pain before, because I just thought it was normal... Then I talked to my friend about it who takes Muscle Relaxers and vicodin for her back, and I tried one, and I woke up in the morning with NO back pain what so ever... I NEVER realized just how good my back could feel! Now, I want to talk to my doctor about it, how would I go about it? I want to try something along the lines of phyisical therapy and pain management... How do I bring it up? Oh, by the way, I'm only 20...
2007-12-07 15:42:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
Also, I'm not very savvy on medications, my family has always been anti doctors anti medication growing up, so its all kinda new to me... and to the guy who said I'm a junkie, grow the hell up.
2007-12-07 16:25:41 · update #1
You're absolutely correct about your bosom contributing to your back pain. The fact that you constantly have to hold your chest up constantly strains your thoracic and lumbar paravertebral muscles (imagine flexing your elbow to make a bicep muscle bulge, but holding that muscle ALL DAY). After a while, your muscles will tense up, cramp up and cause you pain. Now, the severity of that muscle cramping is so intense so that even after you lie down to sleep, it still stays tensed up and aching. Taking the muscle relaxer while you slept gave your body that extra "umph" to help it overcome that muscle tension and finally relax; reducing or eliminating your back pain. Falling on your tailbone, no doubt, is also contributing to your low back pain now, but is probably due to a pelvic malalignment caused by the fall. That brunt trauma probably threw off the biomechanics of your pelvis, which in turn is unevenly pulling on the huge low back and hip muscles attached to it. Again, going back to muscle being tense and under pressure because it's holding together an imbalanced pelvis, taking the muscle relaxer helped it finally relax and reduced your pain.
Please don't think, though, that medicine alone will permanently eliminate your pain. All it does is temporarily take it away. Ultimately, you still have the structural problems that are at the root cause of your pain problems (heavy bosom and malaligned pelvis). This is where going to the doctor to be referred for physical therapy comes into play.
See your primary care physician and tell him/her that you've had back pain and feel that the strain your back is going through is probably at the root cause. Ask for a referral for physical therapy (to learn low back/core strengthening exercises/stretches, and to get manual PT to help re-align your back and pelvis), and then ask him/her if they can give you a prescription for a medicine to help with the back pain. No doubt, the combination of PT and the muscle relaxers should help you completely eliminate your back pain for good :-). Good luck!
2007-12-07 16:06:55 · answer #1 · answered by Francis R 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So you want Vicodin and don't know how to ask because a doctor will see right away you are a junkie? Is this a question?
If not, just go to a doctor and tell him or her you have back pain. Is this too complicated for you?
2007-12-07 15:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vicadin is a HIGHLY ADDICTIVE medication!!
There are other things you can do. Go to a chiropractor and have him adjust your back and neck. If your spine is out of alignement, the regular medical doctors can't do anything about it. Acupressure/acupunture, are also an option. Also doing stretching and back streghtening exercises can help.
Medication should be the last option. Once you start on pain relivers, you won't try anything else and you don't want to be on a lifetime of pain meds!!!
2007-12-07 16:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by serene e 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ask friends or family about a chiropractioner that they would recommend and go see them. A regular DR won't do anythign but subscribe pain meds and tell ya to go home. At eh chiro they will look at your spine and check what the reg DR can't check.
2007-12-07 16:09:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
go to the doctor and say i have been experiencing back pain since i was 13 what is going on.
2007-12-07 15:46:28 · answer #5 · answered by ltonyasfun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way your talked to him about your Wellbutrin prescription. Good Luck
2007-12-08 07:46:45 · answer #6 · answered by gillianprowe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just read what you wrote here....................
2007-12-07 15:50:03 · answer #7 · answered by richard t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋