Does drinking alcohol cause lower back pain.

Hi, I am a 30 year old female who has been drinking for over 10 years. Actually it has gotten bad the past 2 years. I started to feel a lower back pain recently. It usually hurts more when I drink. It still hurts more if I drink only a couple of drinks. It hurts constanly after I drink, but when I don't drink it only hurts when I sit or stand for long periods of time. What can this be? Is the drinking causing it?

mickey16 wrote:

Hi, I am a 30 year old female who has been drinking for over 10 years. Actually it has gotten bad the past 2 years. I started to feel a lower back pain recently. It usually hurts more when I drink. It still hurts more if I drink only a couple of drinks. It hurts constanly after I drink, but when I don't drink it only hurts when I sit or stand for long periods of time. What can this be? Is the drinking causing it?

I have been getting real bad lower back pain too just like you say and i do drink allot i think this might be true well time for the pop instead:((

Hello, I have been reading about this problem and although many people report having back pains while drinking alcohol or having back pains and drinking a lot of alcohol, none of the studies support this statement.

There have been studies on the topic and in one of them, 142 participants were questioned and their blood samples taken to check for alcohol consumption and the levels of their back pain. All of the participants had lower back pain. The results showed that 11% of the participants were alcohol abusers. The problem with the study results was that the alcohol consumption did not match the severity of backaches, so the links were dismissed. It is said, however, that alcohol could be contributing to back pain.

Another source said that while alcohol may act as an muscle relaxant in some people, it could be also cause muscle spasms in others and that these muscle spasms could be causing the pain.

Not to scare you, but this can be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease (i.e., cancer), and you are in the age group where Hodgkin's is most common. See a doctor NOW if at all possible.

Well, my own experiences would tell me different to the three posters above.

I get back pain ONLY after a weekend of heavy drinking. If I don't drink for two weeks I won't get any pain. Then I go on a bender for three days and the second morning the pain is there. The third morning the pain is unbearable and makes it hard to even bend over. Fourth morning, that is the morning after the day I stop drinking, the pain has subsided. Tell me the studies above correspond to this?

It hasn't only started either, it's been about two years of the same....

Take 2 tums and you should be fine... I avoided dark alchohol from 16-21 because i thought I was allergic. I felt like my lungs were collapsing, and once i started with back pain, I had excruciating pain in the back when I drank anything dark. Take a tums, im not doc, but for me it lets up in under 10 min. Good luck.

i just googled this cause i have been on vacation and drinking for 5 days and my lower back pain is so bad it hurts to walk at all, or sit in most positions, or lye in any position other than on my back. ive experienced it before after drinking alot.

p.s. what does hodgkins have to do with it? i think that person is trying to scare you.

I had hurt my back a long time ago, now I'm 31 and notice that when I drink/ get dehidrated i get back pain to where i can barely crawl (litteraly). I notice that a nerve gets pinched when I dehydrate due to drinking. I took skelaxin and that made me be able to function, then by circumstance i chose to go jogging (yeah with the back pain) after I half assed a jog for 1/4 mile, the pain went away. I have been trying to jog and be more outdoor active and the pain has gone away. Took a drink and my back acted up again. Sitting for a long time affects it.
Try something this simple it might work. off the booze and be active. Surgery for last extreme resource.

I have had the same problem off and on for years. Finally found out I have an obstructed UPJ. This is the tube connecting your kidney to your ureter. I was born that way. I will have to have surgery to correct it. You should demand a CT scan to determine if you have the same.

If anyone is still reading this discussion, the poster is correct regarding lymphoma, I was recently diagnosed and lower back pain after drinking alcohol was one of my symptoms.