lower back pain

I have had lower back pain on the right side for about a week and a half now.  I thought maybe I pulled a muscle because that's what it feels like.  But it's not going away  Could it be a kidney or bladder infection?  I don't have any pain when I urinate but I also have pain right next to my belly button on my right side that comes and goes and I also get sharp pains inside sometimes on the right side down lower too near my right leg.  If that makes any sense.  It's kind of hard to describe.  Thanks for any help!!

Do you have gallstones?

You could have biliary colic due to your gallstones; the pain in that case is typically wrenching in nature and comes in waves underneath your right ribcage and radiates to the back. Usually there's some sort of nausea or vomiting associated with it. Alternatively, you could have pulled a muscle; the psoas muscle is a common one to pull and could cause back and leg pain (as could many other strained muscles). In the absence of any pain during urination, bloody urine, or fever, it's unlikely to be a kidney infection. Still, it would be good to get it checked out! Let us know how it goes.

well, the GI says the back pain is probably just related to my crohns right now.  Everything healing and all.  He says if once my inflamation is gone if I am still having pain in my back he wants me to see a rheumatologist, but he thinks it's just because I'm probably still inflamed. 

On another note...I'm tapering my pred again...down to 15 mg for the next 7 days...wish me luck.  This is when I started to have pain again last time and had to go back up to 30!!   Keeping my fingers crossed...I started the taper yesterday and so far I'm doing okay, although I ate some salad yesterday and feeling a little crampy today, but nothing major.  I am hoping to be able to taper off this time, but we'll see.  If I can't taper off this time my GI wants me to do remicade and I'm not sure I want to jump to that right away.  I've only been diagnosed since January and pred and pentasa are the only things I've been on.  I'd like to try something else first I think...any thoughts?  Wow, this sure turned into a ramble when I just wanted to update my status on my back pain!! Haha!