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Upper-mid Back Pain Only After Sleeping
For about 6 weeks I have been experiencing mid back pain when I wake up in the morning. The pain is so bad, I cannot go back to sleep, and NO position change helps. I must get out of bed and start walking around or sit in a chair for the pain to start going away. After an hour or two, the pain basically disappears. The pain seems to be emanating from my spine, and tensing up the back muscles nearest the spine.
I have been seeing a chiropractor/massage therapist for about 4 weeks now, and it has not helped, because the pain is only after I sleep!
I am 23 years old. I help my dad deliver produce 2 times a week in the morning, and I am also a full time sales associate at Sears selling electronics (which I'm on my feet all day.) That may cause a little lower back pain, but it goes away when I'm not working.
I have used a contour pillow, slept in all different kinds of positions (back and both sides), I always sleep with a full body pillow, and nothing has seemed to help.
I would appreciate any suggestions, thanks!
I have been seeing a chiropractor/massage therapist for about 4 weeks now, and it has not helped, because the pain is only after I sleep!
I am 23 years old. I help my dad deliver produce 2 times a week in the morning, and I am also a full time sales associate at Sears selling electronics (which I'm on my feet all day.) That may cause a little lower back pain, but it goes away when I'm not working.
I have used a contour pillow, slept in all different kinds of positions (back and both sides), I always sleep with a full body pillow, and nothing has seemed to help.
I would appreciate any suggestions, thanks!
I felt back pain at the time of my pregnancy. During pregnancy we need to take special care while sleeping, so it is recommended to use pregnancy pillow. So, it provides me relief.
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I maybe have a solution to the problem that could work for some of you. First of all, I am not any kind of medical expert, but when I have some health problem, I'm trying to find what could be the cause of the pain and, believe it or not, internet helped me many times. Doctors not so much.
A few years ago I started to woke up in the morning with extreme pain and stiffness in the lower back. It lasted for a 2 or 3 years.
It felt awful, like some kind of rod was sticked through my back when I woke up. It was hard even to get up from the bed and I needed sometimes even an hour to become completely mobile and for the pain to go away.
I had better and worse nights. I was walking every day for many hours hoping it will go away. It did help, but not so much.
When it started to become really very painful every morning I knew I must find some solution or I'll become disabled.
So, after my research on internet I realized that most probably I have an inflammation in my back. I don't remember exactly the exact words from the article I found, but when we sleep, simply because we don't move, bodily fluids starts to go away from inflamed tissue and that's why it hurts like hell after sleeping. After we get up and start to walk, bodily fluids returns to tissue, so after a while we feel normal again.
I found a natural cure that worked for me. At first I wasn't sure will it work, but it did and even I couldn't believe it.
I read a lot about turmeric (curcumin) and it's a spice that fights cancer and curcumin is also the strongest natural anti-inflammatory substance. Unlike pharmaceutical drugs there are no any known side-effects and it can actually cure permanently such conditions.
This are ingredients I put in a little dish:
1. half of teaspoon of turmeric powder
2. 1/4 or 1/5 (smaller amount) of black pepper
3. small amount of olive oil only to cover turmeric and pepper.
I mixed it then with a spoon.
I was dipping bread into it and that's how I ate it. I took it twice a day - in the morning and in the evening.
Why black pepper? Because turmeric is not easily absorbed into body, so black pepper helps your body to absorb it and it helps a lot. Those are all scientifically proven facts and you can find on internet many researches that proves it.
Olive oil was only there so I can simply have a solution from which I can easily eat it. Olive oil is also healthy.
After only one week I started to notice that my pain started to change... it went for a while only to one side of the lower back and even if it was strong it wasn't severe anymore like it used to be. Pain felt like it's much more local than before.
After only 2 weeks of taking turmeric I woke up one morning without any pain and I couldn't believe it. I knew that it was gone and I couldn't describe how happy I was.
Weeks and months after that there were nights when the pain returned but it was nowhere near to the severity of the pain I've had before taking turmeric. After some time I stopped taking turmeric and the pain didn't return anymore.
All that happened some 2 years ago.
This week, similar things started to appear to me during sleeping, but in the middle part of the back and I never had that before. Once again, I'm starting to take turmeric with black pepper, so we will see in a week or two.
I'm writing all this, because I know how awful and how painful it is, so I would be really happy if this post will be helpful to some of you and even cure you.
It's really not expensive to buy those ingredients and you should try it. Take it for a few months if it is needed. Do not exaggerate with doses. It's not dangerous at all, but too big amount could be dangerous just like everything else.
Pregnant women should be more careful while taking it, because, in theory, great amounts of turmeric would not be good for you, so always be careful.
But don't forget, it's not a drug... it's only a spice... a food.
Good luck!
A few years ago I started to woke up in the morning with extreme pain and stiffness in the lower back. It lasted for a 2 or 3 years.
It felt awful, like some kind of rod was sticked through my back when I woke up. It was hard even to get up from the bed and I needed sometimes even an hour to become completely mobile and for the pain to go away.
I had better and worse nights. I was walking every day for many hours hoping it will go away. It did help, but not so much.
When it started to become really very painful every morning I knew I must find some solution or I'll become disabled.
So, after my research on internet I realized that most probably I have an inflammation in my back. I don't remember exactly the exact words from the article I found, but when we sleep, simply because we don't move, bodily fluids starts to go away from inflamed tissue and that's why it hurts like hell after sleeping. After we get up and start to walk, bodily fluids returns to tissue, so after a while we feel normal again.
I found a natural cure that worked for me. At first I wasn't sure will it work, but it did and even I couldn't believe it.
I read a lot about turmeric (curcumin) and it's a spice that fights cancer and curcumin is also the strongest natural anti-inflammatory substance. Unlike pharmaceutical drugs there are no any known side-effects and it can actually cure permanently such conditions.
This are ingredients I put in a little dish:
1. half of teaspoon of turmeric powder
2. 1/4 or 1/5 (smaller amount) of black pepper
3. small amount of olive oil only to cover turmeric and pepper.
I mixed it then with a spoon.
I was dipping bread into it and that's how I ate it. I took it twice a day - in the morning and in the evening.
Why black pepper? Because turmeric is not easily absorbed into body, so black pepper helps your body to absorb it and it helps a lot. Those are all scientifically proven facts and you can find on internet many researches that proves it.
Olive oil was only there so I can simply have a solution from which I can easily eat it. Olive oil is also healthy.
After only one week I started to notice that my pain started to change... it went for a while only to one side of the lower back and even if it was strong it wasn't severe anymore like it used to be. Pain felt like it's much more local than before.
After only 2 weeks of taking turmeric I woke up one morning without any pain and I couldn't believe it. I knew that it was gone and I couldn't describe how happy I was.
Weeks and months after that there were nights when the pain returned but it was nowhere near to the severity of the pain I've had before taking turmeric. After some time I stopped taking turmeric and the pain didn't return anymore.
All that happened some 2 years ago.
This week, similar things started to appear to me during sleeping, but in the middle part of the back and I never had that before. Once again, I'm starting to take turmeric with black pepper, so we will see in a week or two.
I'm writing all this, because I know how awful and how painful it is, so I would be really happy if this post will be helpful to some of you and even cure you.
It's really not expensive to buy those ingredients and you should try it. Take it for a few months if it is needed. Do not exaggerate with doses. It's not dangerous at all, but too big amount could be dangerous just like everything else.
Pregnant women should be more careful while taking it, because, in theory, great amounts of turmeric would not be good for you, so always be careful.
But don't forget, it's not a drug... it's only a spice... a food.
Good luck!
TRY THIS SIMPLE SOLUTION. IT WORKED FOR ME....
I am writing this in June 2016. I remember reading through these pages in sheer panic back in 2010 when I began to have the same problems described by most people posting here. I solved my problem with a very simple solution. I feel guilty and selfish about not having bothered to post back. But better late than never.
So here is the simple solution that worked for me. It was recommended to me by my yoga-instructor who did the diagnosis and recommendation simply over an email. START SLEEPING WITHOUT A PILLOW. After about 4 days I no longer woke up after a few hours of sleeping flat. The lingering pain in the upper back took 6-12 months to complete go away. But by the end of 2011 my problem was history. The yoga instructor who gave me the simple solution said it was simply because of bad slouching posture when working at a computer, which I do. For the past 7 years I have been using a standing desk. I try hard to not slouch and I don't read heavy books while holding them in my hands and standing. Try this and let me know how it turns out.
I am writing this in June 2016. I remember reading through these pages in sheer panic back in 2010 when I began to have the same problems described by most people posting here. I solved my problem with a very simple solution. I feel guilty and selfish about not having bothered to post back. But better late than never.
So here is the simple solution that worked for me. It was recommended to me by my yoga-instructor who did the diagnosis and recommendation simply over an email. START SLEEPING WITHOUT A PILLOW. After about 4 days I no longer woke up after a few hours of sleeping flat. The lingering pain in the upper back took 6-12 months to complete go away. But by the end of 2011 my problem was history. The yoga instructor who gave me the simple solution said it was simply because of bad slouching posture when working at a computer, which I do. For the past 7 years I have been using a standing desk. I try hard to not slouch and I don't read heavy books while holding them in my hands and standing. Try this and let me know how it turns out.
I am so grateful for this forum. Out of nowhere, 5 nights ago I started experiencing many of the same symptoms listed above: horrible mid/upper back pain, can't roll over, can barely move, can't take a full breath (a very panic-inducing feeling). And like many of the people here, after less than an hour of getting up and walking around, I would feel fine. The first 2 mornings of pain were more like aches so I attributed to possibly sleeping in a bad position (not true). The 3rd and 4th mornings I was awakened at 4am-5am to debilitating pain, so I changed beds. Did not help!
Yesterday I came across this forum and right away I did a few rounds of cobra stretches on the floor (lumbar extensions). Also, I tried out sleeping on my back with a pillow under my knees. Note that I am a life-long side sleeper, so this is very different for me. I did also take 1 ibuprofen because I was still feeling a little achey from the night before.
This morning I was able to sleep until the alarm went off, 95% pain free! I will keep doing these things and may also look into adding vitamin D supplements – my last checkup indicated I was on the low end. Hope these notes help someone else, and thanks again for all the info thus far!
About me: female, 40s, normal weight, moderately active, no health issues
Yesterday I came across this forum and right away I did a few rounds of cobra stretches on the floor (lumbar extensions). Also, I tried out sleeping on my back with a pillow under my knees. Note that I am a life-long side sleeper, so this is very different for me. I did also take 1 ibuprofen because I was still feeling a little achey from the night before.
This morning I was able to sleep until the alarm went off, 95% pain free! I will keep doing these things and may also look into adding vitamin D supplements – my last checkup indicated I was on the low end. Hope these notes help someone else, and thanks again for all the info thus far!
About me: female, 40s, normal weight, moderately active, no health issues
I am so grateful for this forum. Out of nowhere, 5 nights ago I started experiencing many of the same symptoms listed above: horrible mid/upper back pain, can't roll over, can barely move, can't take a full breath (a very panic-inducing feeling). And like many of the people here, after less than an hour of getting up and walking around, I would feel fine. The first 2 mornings of pain were more like aches so I attributed to possibly sleeping in a bad position (not true). The 3rd and 4th mornings I was awakened at 4am-5am to debilitating pain, so I changed beds. Did not help!
Yesterday I came across this forum and right away I did a few rounds of cobra stretches on the floor (lumbar extensions). Also, I tried out sleeping on my back with a pillow under my knees. Note that I am a life-long side sleeper, so this is very different for me. I did also take 1 ibuprofen because I was still feeling a little achey from the night before.
This morning I was able to sleep until the alarm went off, 95% pain free! I will keep doing these things and may also look into adding vitamin D supplements – my last checkup indicated I was on the low end. Hope these notes help someone else, and thanks again for all the info thus far!
About me: female, 40s, normal weight, moderately active, no health issues
Yesterday I came across this forum and right away I did a few rounds of cobra stretches on the floor (lumbar extensions). Also, I tried out sleeping on my back with a pillow under my knees. Note that I am a life-long side sleeper, so this is very different for me. I did also take 1 ibuprofen because I was still feeling a little achey from the night before.
This morning I was able to sleep until the alarm went off, 95% pain free! I will keep doing these things and may also look into adding vitamin D supplements – my last checkup indicated I was on the low end. Hope these notes help someone else, and thanks again for all the info thus far!
About me: female, 40s, normal weight, moderately active, no health issues
Hello everybody. I researched this same topic probably two years ago now, as I was having the same pain in my mid back every morning before I got up. Would wake me up and persist no matter which position I tried. Then I would get up and walk around and it would be gone. So either here or somewhere else I read that somebody else had tried doing flexibility exercises on an swiss ball. So I started doing backwards stretches over a swiss ball at the gym, three times a week after my free weight workouts. The result: a few weeks later the pain was completely gone and never returned (I work out three times a week religiously and likewise did these stretches three times a week over this period). Then, about four weeks ago I had to have an emergency appendectomy and was in the hospital for a week. It has now been about a month since the surgery and I have not been able to go back to the gym or do anything in the past month. The result: about two weeks ago the back pain returned and is once again waking me up every morning. I'm hoping to be able to go back to the gym in the next week or so, and will begin a modified version of these stretches (not touching the floor completely) as soon as I do.
Here is a youtube link of the type of stretches that I am referring to. Of course, when I first started, it took a week or two before I could touch the floor completely (palms flat on the floor) and I still position myself near a wall or something that can assist me if I fatigue, as I have worked my way up to about four sets (5-6 minutes each). That said, I think these stretches can work for anybody if you position your mid-back properly over the ball, even if you can only do an assisted version with 50% range of motion or something. Anyway, with the recurrence of my back pain, just saw this msg board again and figured I would share my experience. The link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdaYIBr27I
fyi - I'm 35, male, quite fit
Here is a youtube link of the type of stretches that I am referring to. Of course, when I first started, it took a week or two before I could touch the floor completely (palms flat on the floor) and I still position myself near a wall or something that can assist me if I fatigue, as I have worked my way up to about four sets (5-6 minutes each). That said, I think these stretches can work for anybody if you position your mid-back properly over the ball, even if you can only do an assisted version with 50% range of motion or something. Anyway, with the recurrence of my back pain, just saw this msg board again and figured I would share my experience. The link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdaYIBr27I
fyi - I'm 35, male, quite fit
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Hi there,
Thank you so much for your post. I'm a 28 yr old female, fit and healthy and my pain came on immediately after an appendectomy over 18 months ago now. I've not had a night where my back does hurt after 4-5 hours asleep. Good to know it's not just me! Have had multiple MRIs, physio sessions, acupuncture and nothing seems to work.
Did you do anything else to help the back pain post surgery?
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your post. I'm a 28 yr old female, fit and healthy and my pain came on immediately after an appendectomy over 18 months ago now. I've not had a night where my back does hurt after 4-5 hours asleep. Good to know it's not just me! Have had multiple MRIs, physio sessions, acupuncture and nothing seems to work.
Did you do anything else to help the back pain post surgery?
Thanks!
MY SOLUTION! I also had pain in my upper left back after sleeping, and it wouldn't go away until I got up, walked around, or sat in a chair. Nothing I read on here worked, I found my own solution. To stop this from happening, I just lay on my side (either side) with my arm out, and elbow bent. Do not lay on your arm, you will still have the pain. If I lay on my back or stomach, I still wake up with these terrible pains, but as long as I lay on my side with my arm out and elbow bent, the pain is not there at all when I wake up. This was a very simple yet life changing discovery for me, and I hope it will help someone else.
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