my damn back

You might want to get MRI. Magnesium might help relax the muscles. Sometimes weather change will trigger episodes.

Do you work out?

Not working out on your core can do that. Your vertebrate disk may be thinning out as a result.

Yeah and vitamin D3. Both that most do not get enough.

Warning on magnesium citrate... too much at once can be a powerful laxative... Be careful...

I do some working out. I have been limited due to back pain however.

Buy an Inversion Table.

Sciatica. Very painful.

Skinny people do not have back or knee problems. Just saying.

And you ever notice how you never see any fat old people?

Not true .. I have scoliosis and a pinched nerve .. or a mental distortion of my size

A muscle spasm would be a sudden intense gripping where you cannot breath while it is happening.

You would know if you had one and I pray that you do not get one in the back. VERY painful.

BS.

You should try an inversion table... no kidding, they make your back feel amazing!

cut the shit, i saw my fat 90 year old grandfather smoking a cig talking about the good old days in the wehrmacht.

the eh f ....again feelings

No you didn't.

my advice for your back OP ... go to a dr of Kinesiology
and let your body tell him what is "wrong" with you ... and fix it

here are your other choices

if you go to a family dr, he will send you to a specialist that will drug you until you agree to surgery - that will only make your life worse

or go to a chiropractor, who specializes in back pain - for the rest of your life for "treatments"

I'll tell what I do. First, some back stuff. Your spine has inverse curves.The lower back curves inward, thoracic has outward and neck inward. This means that the movements required to adjust are not applied from the same side of your body.One is not usually adjusting the discs but the 'facet' joints located on the ventral side of the spine.These become misaligned and need putting back. The sacrum is the largish bone at the base of the spine and that has sliding joints with the two pelvic bones, the Illia. This is the one the sciatic nerves pass through.

For instance,since you seem to be having lumbar and sacral issues,as most back sufferers do,I'll address those. When my lower back goes out I have to adjust from the front of my body. I lie down on my stomach, turn my head have one knee bent and put my fists together under my lower belly. Moving that around I quickly locate the spot where it hurts the most and apply steady pressure upward, maybe with slight circular motion. It hurts when I have the spot just right and a bit of breathing and telling my muscles to relax results in a gentle pop or slide and instant relief from the pinch. There will be some residual pain as the pain you have been feeling is actual tissue damage which causes swelling and inflamation, which goes away in a few days. The SI joint(sacral- Illiac) is tricky. That joint is a sliding one and mis alignment is very painful and affects the whole back. For that,I have found throwing one leg over a fence like to climb over (how I discovered this one)or pickup truck side and hanging the other leg can put that one right back. The sooner the better. It's what I do. Must always use core for lifting.

Maybe your making way to much money on that mattress and need to stop for awhile.

Not sure if you fell on your bottom which can cause back pain to radiate all throughout the hip, buttock and leg.
These are 4 or 5 very simple exercises. They provide relief within hours if your pain is coming from the SI joint. If no relief comes, then it's probably not that joint causing your problems.
Worth a few minutes try.
I sympathise, back pain can be very debilitating.
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Uhmmmm....doctor?

Herniated Disk. Will need surgery and 6 weeks recovery. Worst pain I've ever felt in my life. Good luck.

My husband has back pain. We bought a soft sided water bed, no problems since then.
He also ditched his Nikes and wears Spira running shoes too.

Doing 45* back extension seems to be the best for me but you'd still have to do abs exercises esp hanging leg raise.

Also do this...



Hurts like hell at first. I use tennis ball for that.

Also foam roller for ITB (outer part of thigh).

Basically focus on posterior chain (lower back, glutes and hamstrings) and abs to take stress off vertebrae disks... you want to have 2 rods of muscles along the vertebrae...

Depends on which nike shoes... I love Nike Free 3.0... rest of them... not so much...

Back be healed in the name of Jesus.

Spirit of pain I command you out of the back in Jesus name

I repent of unforgiveness and may the back pain go in Jesus name.

Amen.

I have severe back pain from a few different issues. One of the things that I couldn't believe helped was getting a "cloud pillow." I think it is called "Sobikawa. I picked one up at Walmart for about $25 a couple of years ago and the morning after I used it for the first time, I woke up with zero pain. I am usually driven out of bed each morning by spinal pain at around 4 a.m. each day. I don't need an alarm clock, even. But this time, I woke up and it was after 6:30 a.m. I remember just laying there feeling like I was floating and not feeling any pain in my back or the rest of my joints.

I have to replace it about once a year or so. And I have two different sizes that I switch out every couple of weeks.

It has helped me a lot. At least where getting good sleep is concerned.

Obvs. I would recommend seeing a doctor to make sure you're okay. I had back probs and tried all kinds of stretches to deal with it over the years. Sounds nuts, but do but clenching exercises and hold for a few seconds tightening all the way through your thighs till the muscles warm a little. It's the only stretch that ever helped me and made things better, rather than worse, over time.

try some of the suggestions here.

if nothing helps, see a doc.

Best of luck to you.

Those inversion tables ain't for everybody. Last time I got off one, I thought I was gonna die! Never again. I think many people risk further injury self-treating that way.

But then, I have a lot wrong with my back... Surgeon says he can't fuse my whole spine. Spent 8 months of the past year unable to walk, and another 4 months getting my legs back.

If you get relief lying on one side with knees drawn toward the chest, try sleeping that way and see how you do. Sometimes, rest is the only thing that helps.

The waterbed was good for me too, can't sleep on the pillowtop at all, so now I sleep on the couch.

I've been on pain meds, which only keep you going for a while then you are addicted and immune to the meds. Steroid injections, more quackery. Electro-stimlators, quack-quack.

I've seen too many failed back surgeries to let them take a stab at mine.

One:
My friend, begged a long time to get a doc to operate on his back. Doc keeps saying say it really isn't that bad, but eventually agrees to do it. After the surgery, doc says it was the worst he's ever seen. They ended up slicing him in the back and the front. Now he still has big problems with pain and takes pain meds. So the doc got a surprise in the surgery, and still couldn't do him any good.

You are really stupid, you know that?