Maybe yoy should get a MRI to see if you have a blockage. My mom has had these systoms three times and three times she has had blocked artiers.
Seems I'm in the same boat as a lot of other people. My back started hurting over 6 years ago but I kept on working as a plumber. One day 4 years ago I was driving home and the pain hit me so hard I lost control of my van. It was like a white flash of pain then the weeks following my hips started hurting then shooting pains in my into my feet. I'd been to the doctors I had to try 6 weeks of painkillers antidepressants and another meds. nothing helped the pain so it was time for physiotherapy. First thing they found out is my left hip had dropped so my leg became shorter. After 6weeks of that I use no better so then it was time for an MRI scan the report came saying L2 had a bulge but the rest looked fine. So I had another hospital appointment and the doctor said it not enough to do surgery and I need more physio. So back to beginning the treatment stopped after 6 weeks and I was just left on painkillers. So I changed doctors and all the steps started again same thing. The 2nd MRI scan showed few small bulges L2 was now fine but L1 S1 and s2 had bugles a and could be touching the nerve that was the radiologist report. So now back to the hospital to make a plan of action doctor says they don't think surgery is the answer I need physio and pain management clinic. So now the new plan is to have 4 injections in the facet joins. At this point I'd try anything about 3 years had pasted since this started. They were a great fail and since then I develop a shaking that comes and goes in my hands and legs. Anyway I moved and changed doctors again so back to the beginning again meds for 6weeks physiotherapy 6 weeks and core classes 7weeks in the core classes I past out due to pain and they total stopped treating me until we found out what was going on. So now 3rd MRI scan at this point my legs hardly work left leg had a lack of power I need 2 walking sticks and sometimes a wheelchair. I get the results the radiologist says few bugles and slight degeneration. So I go back to hospital get told it looks like trauma or a teenage spinal degenerative disease. So I got no answers from that but on the disc above L1 had a chip on it this time but they said that shouldn't be a problem. Then I got an appointment with neurologist due to pains shaking and at one point I was tested for mild strokes, ms and a few other things. Neurologist said she couldn't see the problem I need physio and high dose of gabapentin to try reset my nerves as this could have turned into chronic pain syndrome. So done the meds done the physio and now I have liver damage on top of all these other problems. Now have to use a stairlift I can't drive I can take about 7 steps without sticks before dizzy and fall over or blackout. Also I'm new to this site hope this I posted this in the right place. If anyone has any idea's or had the same problems be nice to hear about the out come. thank you for reading this.
I am in the same boat. Low back pain, but I have chronic pain from degenerative disk problem, I have 5L S1 and do not surgery. My back down it just very painful. I have done all the injections. Physical Therapy chiropractor
I know I am vitamin D deficit. I want to know what is wrong with me! If something is not done I am going to amputate my feet and ankles
Well reading all of these problems is loo looking in a mirror! I have a combination of many posts. But after reading them and realising that there are other people out there with the same problems as me, at least made me feel better before I attempted to get some sleep, in a short release from my pain. A fit and healthy paramedic who after a rear shunt from some stupid white van man that wash't paying attention to the road, has rendered me useless! February 2009 till now has been the biggest and most painful roller coaster journey I have ever made o.O
2 years of physical therapy and consultants appointments, caudal injections x 2 and 2 MRI scans and none can tell me what is wrong. Constant pain in my lower back, left hip and shooting sciatic pain in my left leg. I'm now taking more tablets than the whole of the doctors surgery :'(
If anyone has any miracle cures for me I would love to hear from you. But meanwhile it was nice hearing from all my fellow sufferers as I reckon that reading this is the only thing that that has brought a smile to my face in realising that I am not the only one :-)
Thanks friends XD
Hi there I am a 40 year old mother of 4 and have exactly the same problem, sometimes I can't even walk when I get out of bed in the morning, it is only the one side (right) and my whole leg hurts sometimes even my foot and walk with a limp a lot of the time. I'm convinced it is from carrying babies as I suffered badly from sciatica and 3 out of 4 of my children were over 4.3 kg
Have you guys seen Orthopedics specialized HIP,this is hot topic their field ,especially young folks.
Everyone...research occult tethered cord syndrome and occult tight filum terminale. Find a tethered cord screening tool/checklist. See a neurosurgeon. If it is occult, you will not see it on the MRI, but it is quite painful. You may need a urodynamics test to help confirm it. Doctors are woefully misinformed about this condition, but will insist they know all about it. They don't. I had tethered cord release, and felt instantly better, as soon as I awakened from surgery. I had suffered for YEARS.
ive had lower back pain, right hip and buttock pain and sciatica going down right leg. like you i have been taking lots of tablets, which eased pain but not getting me better. i also started suffering with severe migraines, which were caused from taking too many painkillers. a kind doctor recently told me i was taking too many tablets, where as other doctors just handed me prescriptions to get rid of me. from that day i stopped my strong painkiller, which was codydramol. ive had bad days but on the whole, my pain has decreased. i can feel my muscles working better and im coping better. it was a shock to me that the tablets had been hindering my healing. physio and walking a lot helps. im not saying im cured but best thing i ever did was stop the tablets. give it a try, you got nothing to lose and everything to gain. hope you feeling better soon, all the best and you are never alone, there is always someone who can understand what you are going through, take care.
try some stretching and swimming it will work trust me
I am having the same issue. I had two back surgery for L4 AND L5 over a year ago less than a month apart. My pain is horrible and I dont know what else to do.
I have the same exact symptoms as you, i have been to the doctor for it once and i was prescribed Naproxen, an anti inflammatory. It use to help me on most days it seems like until it wore off. Ive been noticing for the past couple of weeks now that this pain isn't going away i have it all morning, all day and all night. It's mostly worse in the morning and at night when i am laying down. I sometimes cant walk or move certain ways. Im actually sick right now with a cold and the cough i have is making the pain so much worse. When i drive i get bad pains in my lower back and tingles down my legs. It only use to hurt me on one side but now it's both, at the same time. I don't know what to do & stretching like everyone tells me to do only seems to make it worse like you were saying with Therapy. Im curious as to how yours is going after all of your treatments, is anything better? and did you ever experience weigh loss?
hi, I just went thru the same thing my self for a year and a half. Today they just diagnosed me with pelvic pain syndrom. You might wabt to read about your self. finally this doc hit the nail on the head.
Hello, You have described exactly what I have been experiencing for the last 4-5 months, especially the pain in bed at night. It seems to have started sometime after I fell off a stability ball at the gym and landed on my coccyx . I am seeing an osteopath who has done some leg manipulations (to correct leg/hip being out of alignment) and steroid shots. That provides relief for a week or so, but then I teach fitness classes, so I can't really stay off my feet for any length of time. I will have one more treatment before I take a 3 month break from my classes so I can rest. I will see how I feel then. So far my doctor has diagnosed my problem as sciatic and rules out any type of surgery. Have you seen an osteopath?
I have experienced weight loss and am concerned about cancer since I am a breast cancer survivor.