Hi, I'm new to this place.
On Wed, Aug 10th, I pulled something in my lower back while lifting furniture. I got a searing hot pain and immediately stood up. In the next 45 seconds, besides the profuse sweating and inability to move because of pain, both my legs went numb, then both my arms, then both my ears (didn't go deaf, but it sounded as if someone was holding their hands over them). I grabbed my water and started gulping it down and the numbness went away.
However, I could not move. Lucky me I work in a furniture store and someone helped me on a bed wear I laid for about 5 min. I then sat down for about and hour, until someone drove me to a chiropractor.
I've seen the chiropractor 3 times since. Due to the spine not being tender, he said it's most likely not a herniated disc, but not ruling it out 100%. With heat, massage, and e-stim, I've loosed up a bit. Besides the hellish first day and night, I've been able to move around, albeit with pain.
Here's why I'm writing. As long as I don't over bend I can avoid that stabbing pain in my lower back, but, I have a constant, 24 hr, deep dull pain that runs from inside my right butt cheek, down inside my hamstring, and then around the outside of my knee. The pain also sometimes, mildly, runs down my calf and into my ankle. This has been going on since the 2nd day, and everything has been on the right side of my body.
Fast forward to yesterday, Aug. 15th, and I wake up with a very stiff neck on the left side of my body. It's annoying, and it feels like any other stiff neck, and I'd like to believe that it has nothing to do with my back. Until I woke up this morning and the pain in my neck, while has become a little milder, has now radiated down into my shoulder and my upper arm.
Sorry for the long post, but I feel like the chiropractor is just going to keep heating and massaging me. I mentioned an MRI and he shrugged it off for now. With these symptoms what type of doctor should I go see? Neurologist? I'm not sure.