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Posted 3/28/2010 3:20 PM (GMT 0)
Hey everyone! For the past couple of weeks I have had REAL achy lower back pain but only on my right side.. It comes and goes throughout the day and starts like an achy feeling and gets progressively worse throughout the day.. The longer I sit the worse it gets. It's gotten to the point where I can't hold my 1 year for too long without being in bad pain. I have to get up and stretch at work about every hour to keep the pain away. I am not taking anything for it because I am getting blood work soon and I am also having a Colonoscopy on the 2nd of April. Does anyone experience this back pain on either side? What could this be??? I get so irritated with the pain that it puts me in a bad mood confused
Posted 3/28/2010 7:34 PM (GMT 0)
I've had pains like that forever, since I was a kid and long before UC. I'd say it's more of a mechanical issue...holding a one year old can exacerbate it.

Have you had x-rays done?

Have you seen even a chiropractor? I see one regularly, and it's amazing how much it helps.

Also, muscle relaxants can help...such as robaxacet.

quincy
Posted 3/28/2010 8:59 PM (GMT 0)
It's so weird.. It comes and goes but it progressively gets worse.. Are Kidney problems associated with UC or Crohn's??
Posted 3/29/2010 12:10 AM (GMT 0)
I have been told by my GI that lower back pain can be caused by inflamation of the colon....I suffer from it off and on and have very similar symptoms as you...it gets worse the longer I sit. The other day I could barely walk it was so bad and painful but the next day it was virtually gone.
Posted 3/29/2010 12:31 AM (GMT 0)
It might just be from holding your little one, that your hip is out of whack. I would try a chiropractor, or physical therapy. I learned an easy move that would put my hip back where it should be and relieve my back pain. It's very subtle but after so many years I can tell when it is starting to slip and it sounds like you describe. I never found the drugs helped me much.

Try laying on your back and bringing your knees up to your chest. If you feel stiffness but then it subsides, it's probably muscular and not your gut.
Posted 3/29/2010 12:50 AM (GMT 0)
But that's the thing... I hardly hold him because I work 40 hour shifts at work. So when I come home I give him hugs and kisses and sit with him but I dont carry him much since the pain started. The pain where it hurts is around my right kidney area, that's why I was wondering if that could be it ??
Posted 3/29/2010 4:27 PM (GMT 0)
I also worried at first that the back pains were my kidneys, but tests showed no problems. It was joints causing muscles to react, deep in where massage couldn't reach! Physical therapy helped a lot.
Posted 3/29/2010 7:55 PM (GMT 0)
I used to have similar pains, it was unbearable! (Intense sharp pain, lower right side - in the afternoons) It might be the combinations of meds youre taking. I WAS taking Salofalk and Iron pills when i had this pain. different brands of meds ahve different side effects. I told my doc, and he switched me to mezavant, and now no more pain! :)
Posted 3/30/2010 12:09 PM (GMT 0)
I am on 0 meds, never have taken anything for what I have been going through besides Immodium.. I havent been diagnosed yet. I am going in for my colonoscopy on Friday morning. I am so scared for the results..
Posted 3/30/2010 12:14 PM (GMT 0)
Frome my understanding unless it's a UTI, most kidney diseases don't cause pain unless it's highly advanced. To me, it also sounds like it's either muscle or spine/hip related. You can try using ice packs to help ease the pain. 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off several times a day. And it's perfectly ok to take Tylonel before a colonscopy - of course you can't take it the day of the scope though.
Posted 3/30/2010 12:17 PM (GMT 0)
I havent had the pain for about 1 day now.. Instead now I have this INTENSE pressure right behind my anus.. I dont know what it is but it's very uncomfortable... Ugh.. I can't wait to get this test over with so i can finally know what I have.
Posted 3/30/2010 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
I concur, ICE helps a lot. Not heat...I made that mistake for a while before I figured it out.
Posted 4/22/2013 5:54 PM (GMT 0)
Lower right back pain can be resulted from various reasons
check this site out about Lower right back pain . Lower back pain be anything started from muscle strain ended with kidney stones,etc.

Post Edited (personx910) : 10/16/2014 11:51:10 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/22/2013 8:30 PM (GMT 0)
I wish I had advice, but I thought I'd jus t tell you that I'm having something very similar. I literally feel your pain. Hope you get relief soon.

Chinamom
Posted 4/23/2013 3:01 AM (GMT 0)
Are you on any meds? When I was taking Imuran, I would wake up in the mornings with bad lower back pain on both sides of my spine. Once I started moving around it would ease up. I have not taken Imuran for more than a week now and I have not had that pain since I stopped it.
Posted 5/9/2013 7:10 PM (GMT 0)
I had the same thing happening to me. I also have crohn's disease but at first I didn't make the correlation. Just having lower right back pain seemed bizarre to me. But I guess it is pretty common. Eventually I got rid of the pain from the help of doctors and LOTS of stretching. haha. I also found this site (which is pretty much the only out there with good info from what I could find) http://lowerrightbackpainhq.net. It has tons of info and videos. I also had my chiropractor check it out to make sure I wasn't being dumb by believing things I read on the internet.

Oh, and I did try pain killers and while they helped kill the pain, they didn't nothing to treat the condition. So don't fall into that trap.

Post Edited (KyleFranklin) : 7/21/2013 11:55:17 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 7/9/2013 10:56 PM (GMT 0)
I am having back pains right now as we speak. Mine is not lower right, it's really the whole lower back. I have been dealing with C-diff on top of a month long flare up. When I went to my GI doc before being diagnosed with UC, she asked if I had lower back pain. At that time I don't believe I was on any meds. This leads me to believe it has to do with the inflammation. I like using a heating pad. I feel like it's comforting. It also helps with the abdominal pains. I read on a previous post where someone said to use ice. This might be a stupid question, but which one is the right one to use hot or cold?

Emily
Posted 7/10/2013 6:28 PM (GMT 0)
Mine was due to inflammation and sacroiliac joint dysfunction as a result. My intestines were adhered to my pelvis due to all the inflammation. Stretching never helped, it actually brought more inflammation. Chiro 2x a week did very little.. Once my intestinal inflammation was addressed I got complete relief. Hopefully your tests will bring you some answers.
Posted 7/26/2014 4:44 AM (GMT 0)
I found this post in hope to find some answers myself. I have had pain in my lower right back and side for months, that comes and goes. At times it hurts so bad I tear up. I've been to several doctors and still no answer. From the CT scan I have a small tumor on my right kidney, but told that would not be causing my pain. I worry not knowing what is wrong. You hear of people having some rupture when not diagnosed properly and I don't want to be one of them. I have searched online over and over hoping to find what is going on. I have even had a MRI of my spine and was told it looked ok. At my wits end looking for answers. Any suggestions is appreciated.
Posted 7/26/2014 1:52 PM (GMT 0)
do you have uc ?

you can stick around even if you don't -
Posted 7/26/2014 2:02 PM (GMT 0)
I had similar pain that gradually became worse until one day I literally could not get out of my chair. I found a chiropractor on the internet who cleared it up very quickly. I return to her every 3-4 months for a quick adjustment whenever the pain begins to return.

However I moved out of the area and tried to find a new chiro. I tried almost a dozen and none of them were effective. Most said I needed a package of 10 visits etc. for any relief and then I would just walk out of the office.

Now I am forced to travel hundreds of miles every 3-5 months just to visit with my old chiro for relief. Of course I might as well visit old friends and relatives while I am there. :-)
Posted 7/26/2014 2:09 PM (GMT 0)
I have had pain in my lower right back and side for months, that comes and goes. At times it hurts so bad I tear up. I've been to several doctors and still no answer.

My current back pain is caused by degenerate discs in my lower spine. My chiropractor relieves that pain with an adjustment.

But 40 years ago, in my early 20's, I had back pain even before my discs began to deteriorate. It turned out to be from solanine poisoning.

Solanine is a natural pesticide that is encouraged in nightshade plants: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, chocolate, etc. (My solanine came mostly from chocolate lol).

Solanine doesn't require zero tolerance like gluten. Just cutting back a little on those foods really helps a lot with back pain.
Posted 8/5/2014 12:57 AM (GMT 0)
I'm 15, not on any medication of any kind and I have lower back pain. I'm a boy. The pain is only on my right side and it only occurs when I run or if in soccer practice. Any Ideas of what it could be?
Posted 6/8/2016 12:18 AM (GMT 0)

RoseAnnette said...
I havent had the pain for about 1 day now.. Instead now I have this INTENSE pressure right behind my anus.. I dont know what it is but it's very uncomfortable... Ugh.. I can't wait to get this test over with so i can finally know what I have.

It's six years later but I wanted to know if you ever found out that your pressure was a kidney stone? When a Kidney stone moves around in your kidney, the pain doesn't show up in the kidney but produces the sensation you described. Eating rich ice cream always increased my risk of such pain so I stopped that. I must've passed my last and final stone painlessly because I haven't had a symptom in quite a while. The first stone I passed was extremely painful and only dilauded administered at the ER took the pain away that day. A day I'll never forget.
Posted 12/27/2018 2:34 PM (GMT 0)
Intoo was getting this back pain lower right side mainly in the mornings. I started going to acupuncture and it started going away! I also do stretching everyday specifically for my back.
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