I have exactly the same issue. For now,when I get the pain in lower left side of the back,i stand with my feet a foot apart and pointing straight ahead. Then keeping my legs straight,i lean forward keeping my arms straight and grab my knees with both hands and hold this position for about 12 seconds. When I stand up,the pain is considerably better but only lasts for about 8-10 minutes before I have do do it again.So u can imagine when I'm out shopping how I have to cope. Doctors just give me ibuprofen. Also i find if I sleep on my right side with my right hand placed under my right cheek and left hand between both my knees,this helps me get through the night. Stretching exercises help but for limited time and pain is back again. Sitting down also lessens the pain but I'm a goer not a sitter.
I have exactly the same issue. For now,when I get the pain in lower left side of the back,i stand with my feet a foot apart and pointing straight ahead. Then keeping my legs straight,i lean forward keeping my arms straight and grab my knees with both hands and hold this position for about 12 seconds. When I stand up,the pain is considerably better but only lasts for about 8-10 minutes before I have do do it again.So u can imagine when I'm out shopping how I have to cope. Doctors just give me ibuprofen. Also i find if I sleep on my right side with my right hand placed under my right cheek and left hand between both my knees,this helps me get through the night. Stretching exercises help but for limited time and pain is back again. Sitting down also lessens the pain but I'm a goer not a sitter.
I am thankful to have found that I am not alone in the pain I have been suffering for months now. My problem is very similar to other posts here minus one exception. My pain starts this way: I'm a side sleeper but for months I have woken and find myself on my stomach and my lower back is killing me. It takes me a few minutes to roll to my side and get out of bed. Once out of bed and walking around the pain is much reduced, almost gone. My morning routine before work is a quick one and I don't spend too much time standing, except while I prepare my lunch at the counter where the pain in my lower back creeps back in. This is such a short period of time and once I'm moving around the house again it again subsides. Then it's. 30 minute drive to work, no pain, a little stiffness but nothing to bothersome. Once at work if I have to stand still for more than a few minutes the pain comes back, and the longer I have to stand the worse it gets, unbearable really, and I have to force myself to sit. Initially this hurts as well. After sitting for a bit I am able to get back up but I have to be moving-no standing still. This is easily accomplished due to my job requirements. And then it's done for the day. No more pain. Standing in one a lot doesn't bother me for the rest of the day. And then it starts all over again the next day. It's like I have to work up to being able to stand in one spot. Yesterday at the grocery I ran into a friend who was long winded in a story, I couldn't get away from the conversation, or the fact that I had to stand the whole time to listen to her go on. The pain came, shifting my weight from leg to leg did nothing to help the problem, I didn't want to be rude and walk away so I stood there, better than 30 minutes. It was excruciating! Finally when we parted, the walking helped but I could barely lift grocery items into my cart. It took much longer to work out the pain with walking. Probably because I did not have the benefit of being able to sit. I almost left the store and went home. I know I am overweight, I'm 5'4", 200lbs, age 44. I did have a Lowe back sprain when I was 20, and occasionally have problems with sciatica. I have yet to see the dr, after reading everyone's posts here I don't know that it would do much good. I think my first and best bet would be to lose some weight, this makes sense to me since I have other lower joints starting to bother me.
Hi I no this is a long time after you posted this, I was wondering how you were with it now ? Did you have any treatment? My life is utterly awful with this I'm so fed up and very depressed with it x
Haven't posted my story here but it is much the same as all others. Mine began about 10 years ago. I HAVE TRIED (not necessarily in this order): diagnosis and treatments by innumerable physicians -- all disciplines; acupuncture; spending a lot of $$$ on a holistic quack; PT; resting; exercising; heating; icing; endless diagnostic injections -- some steroid, some not; many, many x-rays and scans; every medication the doctors could think of; back-to-back surgeries... 1 for spinal stenosis and 1 for scoliosis... which installed 2 titanium rods and 6 stainless steel screws in my spine. OUTCOME: Surgeries ended my most severe pain and allowed me to walk. DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE, for months following surgery, straightened out the muscles my muscles and tendons and released them from the misalignment caused by having held my body in unnatural positions while trying to cope with the pain that was taken away by the surgeries. I believe the DTM was a very important component of recovery. HOWEVER, the one pain I began with, my MYSTERY PAIN (low, deep point in pelvic area which shoots up to point in rear, middle, upper hip -- radiates along that line) REMAINS. It is brought on by standing in one spot or walking/moving very slowly (as in washing dishes or shopping.) It is slowly increasing. Still no medical professional has an answer for this and it continues to erode the quality of my life. If I EVER find an answer for it I promise to post it all over the web because, as much as I have searched for the cause, all I have EVER found on the internet are questions from those made desperate by their pain and the lives that are passing them by. NEVER ANSWERS!!!!
I am only 56 and I can't stand or walk for more than a couple of minutes before that lower back pain starts. When I'm sitting the pain is gone. I have had x rays (showed up nothing) a spinal injection osteo and physio and none of them worked. No one can tell me why this has happened and what can be done about it. I can't go shopping with my friends or walk anywhere it's so frustrating.....