Lower back pain only in morning

[SJMCRAE]

I wake every morning with horrible pain in lower back (kidney area) that radiates to the front of stomach (rib area).  I have had battery of tests and found nothing.  I am only able to sleep 5-6 hours before pain wakes me, also unable to take a deep breath until I get out of bed (very painful just to roll over), once I stand and get out of bed the pain almost immediately starts to ease.  After about 20 minutes of walking around and after first morning void, pain disappears for remainder of day.
Could this be a pinched nerve or nerve compression?  Had MRI of lower lumbar which showed normal...chiro recommends stretching excersises, something serious has to be wrong with this kind of pain.  If anyone has any ideas it would be GREATLY appreciated!!

[millicentholroyd]

Mine started after I was diagnosed with Graves disease (a problem where the thyroid is overactive)  Before that I never had this awful pain. Like many of you the pain is in the kidney area and is ferocious most mornings. It is hard to inhale or exhale without crying out. My thyroid levels are now back to normal (for now) but I have been left with this awful pain every morning. Never had a back injury and do not have IBS so only rational answer is linked to Graves disease for me. Sick to death of dreading waking up and miss being able to have a lie in. The pain can sometimes last more than an hour and I am still convinced it is kidney-related as going for a wee helps to reduce the chronic pain by some degrees though the ache still continues

[Braveheartdave]

Hi guys n girls.
I'm Dave 42.
I first experienced this problem in my late teens, early twenties. It lasted about 6-7 years then just Disappeared..!
          Myself and my now x-girlfriend had our first child when I was 18 years of age. As most of you guys will know with Children comes a great responsibility!!! I wanted to be all I could be for both my now x-girlfriend and Daughter Stephanie, the true light of my life..... I moved my girlfriend out from her parents house when she'd fallen pregnant with Steph and we moved in to our own two bed flat.. Life was wonderful. I started working 2 jobs to pay for all things we or anyone could ever need. The flat, Car, holiday once a year then the back aches started lower back. The dullest pain you could imagine I'd awake every morning with this serious pain to my lower back. I put it down to being over worked and very under slept. As I previously stated I was working 2 jobs a 9-5 @ Senate Electrical and a 8pm-2am @ Domino's Pizza. So I never seen a GP about this I just assumed it would go. 6 or 7 years after the start of this pain it did subside and I was free from morning pain. (Phew what a relief). Not...!
          At the age of 38 now running my own construction company, on a weekend in Bath with a different x-girlfriend lol.. Outside of a hotel in Bath City centre on a fabulous summers day drinking cocktails after are walk around the "Hot Spa's" my Aorta suddenly decides to split in 2. I later found out that for most people who suffer this there dead before they hit the floor. I was 7 hours in a hospital drifting in and out of Consciousness knowing I was dying. I could hear the nurses telling my x girlfriend to say her goodbyes as they thought I'd only 5-10 minutes left of life. After 7 hours there CT scan showed that I had a Type A, Aortic aneurysm and was in fact dying. I hung on in there how I'll never know. A further 3-4 hours past during this time they had to move me by road ambulance from Bath hospital which was too small to perform the operation I needed to nearby Bristol Hospital.
          Bristol hospital was equipped to perform the operation I needed to save my life. 10hours 23minutes in the operation commenced under senior thoracic surgeon Jonathon Hutter. My body was frozen, yes frozen so they could reduce the blood flow by basically turning it to ice.! The operation was a success. However on one of there scans they couldn't find one of my kidneys and the remaining one I did have was only 30% working lol out of the frying pan and in to the fire. I was then after spending a further 2 weeks in Bristol hospital shipped yet again by road ambulance this time to the Renal care unit of the Royal Free Hospital, London, NW3. After 2 weeks there my kidney recovered well enough for me to return home now Girlfriendless...! Lol, Anyhow if in my late teens early twenties I seen a GP or went to the hospital with the pain, maybe I'd still have both Kidneys.... Who knows.?
Now 4 years have passed in May this year since my life saving operation in May 2011.
          I'm back to full fitness all is well with the exception that over the past 3 weeks that same lower back pain I experienced in my late teens, early twenties is now back.....
I can be contacted directly:- districtbuilders @ hotmail. co.uk
So guys and ladies please try n seek medical advice don't just assume it's muscular as I did
Dave.
      

[Braveheartdave]

Hi guys n girls.
I'm Dave 42.
I first experienced this problem in my late teens, early twenties. It lasted about 6-7 years then just Disappeared..!
          Myself and my now x-girlfriend had our first child when I was 18 years of age. As most of you guys will know with Children comes a great responsibility!!! I wanted to be all I could be for both my now x-girlfriend and Daughter Stephanie, the true light of my life..... I moved my girlfriend out from her parents house when she'd fallen pregnant with Steph and we moved in to our own two bed flat.. Life was wonderful. I started working 2 jobs to pay for all things we or anyone could ever need. The flat, Car, holiday once a year then the back aches started lower back. The dullest pain you could imagine I'd awake every morning with this serious pain to my lower back. I put it down to being over worked and very under slept. As I previously stated I was working 2 jobs a 9-5 @ Senate Electrical and a 8pm-2am @ Domino's Pizza. So I never seen a GP about this I just assumed it would go. 6 or 7 years after the start of this pain it did subside and I was free from morning pain. (Phew what a relief). Not...!
          At the age of 38 now running my own construction company, on a weekend in Bath with a different x-girlfriend lol.. Outside of a hotel in Bath City centre on a fabulous summers day drinking cocktails after are walk around the "Hot Spa's" my Aorta suddenly decides to split in 2. I later found out that for most people who suffer this there dead before they hit the floor. I was 7 hours in a hospital drifting in and out of Consciousness knowing I was dying. I could hear the nurses telling my x girlfriend to say her goodbyes as they thought I'd only 5-10 minutes left of life. After 7 hours there CT scan showed that I had a Type A, Aortic aneurysm and was in fact dying. I hung on in there how I'll never know. A further 3-4 hours past during this time they had to move me by road ambulance from Bath hospital which was too small to perform the operation I needed to nearby Bristol Hospital.
          Bristol hospital was equipped to perform the operation I needed to save my life. 10hours 23minutes in the operation commenced under senior thoracic surgeon Jonathon Hutter. My body was frozen, yes frozen so they could reduce the blood flow by basically turning it to ice.! The operation was a success. However on one of there scans they couldn't find one of my kidneys and the remaining one I did have was only 30% working lol out of the frying pan and in to the fire. I was then after spending a further 2 weeks in Bristol hospital shipped yet again by road ambulance this time to the Renal care unit of the Royal Free Hospital, London, NW3. After 2 weeks there my kidney recovered well enough for me to return home now Girlfriendless...! Lol, Anyhow if in my late teens early twenties I seen a GP or went to the hospital with the pain, maybe I'd still have both Kidneys.... Who knows.?
Now 4 years have passed in May this year since my life saving operation in May 2011.
          I'm back to full fitness all is well with the exception that over the past 3 weeks that same lower back pain I experienced in my late teens, early twenties is now back.....
I can be contacted directly @ ***@****
So guys and ladies please try n seek medical advice don't just assume it's muscular as I did
Dave.
      

[knomie28]

I have been suffering from this problem for 15 years, it was so bad originally that i could not walk it a straight position for a couple of hours after waking which caused me to get bursitis in my thigh so I had pain at night from the back condition & pain on activity from the bursitis. The pain on waking in night and on getting up felt like my lower back, hips & pelvis was paralysed with pain, turning over to a position that eased it was agony & I would cry out but it would help once I had turned. On waking it is hard to sit (even getting on the loo is agony), lean forward or bend to get dressed etc

Had numerous tests, steroid injections & pain management and six years ago the pain just went, no explanation no reason  it just disappeared.

A couple of years ago I started to get the pain at night again, not as bad and manageable, I was really stressed at the time and I could feel I was holding my muscles really tight on waking with the pain, it felt like a tight coil. I found that using my mind to try to relax the muscles really helped but its agony to do, the best way is a little at a time, wait for pain to ease then relax deeper. I started swimming every day, just a length at first but got up to 20 lengths a day within a month & again the pain went.

In December my best friend died from Bowel cancer and within days the pain came back with a vengeance, I know Dr's would jump in to say its psychological but the truth is it is in my case its muscular that has been caused by stress. When we are stressed we hold our muscles really tense & I am 100% sure this is the cause of my problem. The same would happen with bad posture, sitting to long or any other reason for muscle stiffness so there is no 1 reason.

I am controlling mine by taking 2 paracetamol & 2 ibuprofen on waking, waiting 15 mins & then doing muscle relaxing exercises (its 2 painful to do without the tablets). As soon as I am able to relax the muscles the pain goes within 15 mins & I am fine all day.

I think this is a two fold problem, firstly you need to find the reason for the muscle tensing whilst sleeping & work on that, secondly u have to take measures to get those muscles to relax (which is agony but well worth it). I have found that knowing how to get rid of the pain quickly when waking makes it bearable.

Don't spend too long in bed, the longer the muscles are tense the worse the pain. I try to stay in bed for a maximum of 6 hours & then have a power nap for an hour when returning from work to make sure I don't get overtired, this really works as the hour never leads to pain.

Finally I want to say the more you worry about this problem the worse it gets as you will naturally be more tense when u are worried. After living with this for 15 years I know its not serious (although painful) & that it is probably only a small amount of cases caused by mattresses or sleeping positions. Please believe me that it is caused by over tensing of the muscles caused by a huge spectrum of reasons & the only cure is to get those muscles to relax.

I hope this helps. xxx

[pharmacistashraf]

  Hi every body suffer from that
pain

Do you have a congenital twisted spinal column ? And Did you
try to twist your spinal column ?

or

Do you have a normal spinal column ? And you have tried to
twist your spinal column Strongly to be more flexible?

if this is happen

the solution is that

you have to accept your original spine

  try to go back to your congenital design

so

  you have to adjust your mattress to fit with your original
column's design by  slight elevate somewhere under your
back

put slight small tissue layers

I tried this and this pain disappeared

Pray for me God bless you all

Ashraf

[pgtcruiser]

I have had lower back pain every morning for past ten years. 6 months ago my wife suggested I ate to much bread as she had similar problems at times of high bread consumption. I stopped eating beard and 2 or three days later pain had gone totally. been good since with only two relapses of pain due to bread eating . hope this helps . very interesting .