Your Back Pain Cause And Cure Guide

I was involved in a car accident almost 5 years ago. I’ve been to one chiropractor for almost 2 years with no results. Then to 2 different physical therapy, with little relief besides when they pulled my neck away from my body. I’ve had many injections in my back, 1 lasting 3-4 months, another for 1 month or so, and the others maybe a week or so, sometimes nothing at all.
I’ve had 2 Epidurals done, one lasted 3 months the other a month.

I’ve gone to a sports medicine doctor, a few other specialists. Most not recommending surgery because they cannot find the problem. I had a cat scan and a MRI and showed there was something a bit strange in my T 7-8 in my back. I have to take vicodin everyday for pain, and sometimes it doesn’t even work. I’m a healthly 22 year old. Working out at the gym seems to help my back sometimes. It’s a sharp pain in my upper right side of my back, near my spine too. If you push on certain spots on my spine near the pain, its really tender.

I’m running out of help and ideas, please someone, guide me towards someone to see, or some kind of doctor, I will not do surgery as i’ve been recommended not to, so I’m not sure what to do. I just need help, I want to be normal again and not in pain. I still can barely do the things I love and it’s really starting to take effect on how I live my life and my mood. Please someone…. Help..

I live near SF, California if that helps.

What causes my severe pain in my upper neck and above my eye, always on one side or the other?

I have been on hydrocodone 10mg and switched back to percocet thinking it was the hydrocodone. I am also under a lot of stress. Could this be severe? I have taken migraine meds with no help and excedrin. Percocet sometimes helps, but I can’t take them much longer.

you need to go the doctor or maybe the ER

When you have shoulder pain during an ectopic pregnancy does it come and go?

I have a lot of pregnancy symptoms but negative tests. I have shoulder pain that is once and a while but when I get it, it can be pretty severe. It’s between my neck and my arm socket.

I’m not sure, but if you are late, having symptoms and negative tests, I would go to the ER and tell them your suspicions. I thought I was having an ectopic but it turned out the baby was where it needed to be. They will do an ultrasound and everything to be sure!

What causes a throbbing pain in the neck?

My glands are really swollen and on the right side my glands are throbbing. It happened really suddenly. I used to have this sort of pain a lot when I was younger but now not as much. Still this pain comes occasionally and unexpectedly. When I’m sitting still it’s not as bad. But when I move, It starts throbbing again and It really hurts!!!

Flu
Or thonsalitus
will go don’t worry.
Bed rest is best
Have lots of chicken and onion and drink lots of fluids despite the pain it may cause

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Last night after dropping a flashilight, I turned too fast, in the wrong direction, reaching to the floor to pick it up. Something popped, loud enough for me to hear it, as if something broke.

Immediately pain started shooting down my leg to my knee area. When sitting, it is on the underside of my left leg, just below the butt area.
17 hrs later the pain is still there and has not changed.

I am taking Mobic [2 x's daily] for chronic pain and Zanaflex [1 before bedtime] for muscle spasms.

After taking my medicine, I still have had no relief. Is this a pulled muscle or what? My getting up and down is somewhat slow.
Does anyone have a clue what I have done and what I can do for relief?

Thanks,
dyann

I injured my back about a year ago in a dance class. My right leg was extended behind me at about a 90 degree angle when what felt like an explosion on the left side of my lower back occurred. Immediately following the injury, I was unable to bend forward, back, walk, sit, move… This lasted for about a week and mobility slowly increased. I continued dancing as best I could for the remainder of the year and took the summer off. September rolls around and I’m sill in significant pain, especially when dancing (which is my major in school.) Pain is increased when bending forward and backward. Feels like my back is on fire and occasionally runs down my left leg. I had an x-ray and bone scan in September. Bone scan showed nothing and the x-ray showed some narrowing disc space. After fall quarter, I had an MRI done at home. The doctor said that I had a severe disc herniation and put on prednisone for a couple of weeks along with some physical therapy. I’m back at school now and have been referred to another sports medicine doctor here. He says the MRI is pretty standard. Minor bulge, but everyone has it. The pain seems to only get worse. It is definitely affecting how I dance…its hard when you can’t bend over. I’m not quite sure what I can do…or what I should do. Any suggestions? Please help.

I have two herniated discs in my lower back. Right now I take medicine twice a day and I go get epidurals every couple of months for the pain. I just had an epidural done last week and my boyfriend wants me to go to Six Flags this weekend. Is it safe to ride any of the rides with this condition and if so what rides would be okay? I just don’t want to be in pain for a week after.

I am reposting this because I have additional details, and since my other question isn’t "new", I might not get any answers to the new question.

I was wondering if Tylenol PM is okay to take during pregnancy, and I am 2 days short of 13 weeks. That was my original question. My additional details, to answer some questions and clear things up…..

I’m not insomniac, not so much anymore. At the beginning of my pregnancy I was horribly. I’m much more relaxed now. I have problems falling asleep for the most part. My back is always in pain (with my first pregnancy I had back labor at 4 months and still have it and my son is 19 months old). I get headaches frequently. Restless leg syndrome, and anytime I start to fall asleep, when my husband rolls over or moves, I jerk back awake and it takes about another 20-30 minutes to fall back asleep. Milk and exercise doesn’t help. Tea doesn’t. And currently I have no benedryl, so I took one tylenol PM.

So with this additional information, is there any other resource I can use other than a medicine that isn’t recommended in pregnancy?
Forgot to post, I don’t have my first prenatal until the 18th….

My doctor from my first pregnancy (in another state) said it was okay, just don’t make a habit, but she also prescribed me sh*t loads of Ambien and Lortab, and then said Benedryl was bad lol…. so I don’t know if I should trust her word.

In high school I was active in gymnastics…I was pretty good and I spent many hours a week practicing. One day, at the end of my senior year, I had a bad accident, and really hurt my upper back. The pain went away after a few days and I never got it checked out. About a year ago, I started to get horrible pain in my back. It turned out I have a few severely herniated discs that never healed. I’m in physical therapy but I’m also going to a pain management clinic. At first I was taking one 10 mg Percocet every 6 hours but I heard so many horror stories about addiction that I asked for something else when I realized I would be on pain medicine for a few months. Now I take two 50 mg Tramadol every six hours. That’s the background.

My question is…on a milligram by milligram basis how does Tramadol compare to Percocet?

I understand they are different medicines but I want to make sure I’m getting the same pain relief as I was before with a lower risk of addiction. And please, I don’t need any answers like "you need help" I’m going to multiple doctors for a bad injury (I can barely walk) and I want to get off these medicines as fast as possible.
I’m in physical therapy….I’m only using this until I can get healed which is taking a while since it’s such an old injury. Like I said, I want to get off any medicines as soon as possible and start exercising and stuff again.