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Reply: pain only when lying down

OH also I'm 38 yrs old! Sorry.. probably should have mentioned that.

Posted by wendyrx

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The symptoms you mention in this post that you were getting an MRI about 9 mos ago... the...

Posted by wendyrx

The symptoms you mention in this post that you were getting an MRI about 9 mos ago... the low back pain after lying on your back for even 5 mins.. I have that. Same with my hips... sometimes I'll wake up to our 1 yr old son who co-sleeps with us.. and it'll hurt SO bad I can't turn to him or sit up.. I end up having to wake my husband to pull me up.. and then it takes at least a half an hour for it to subside enough to even lift our son onto my lap..
ANYHOW... did you get your MRI? And what did they say... I can't find anything about this particular problem anywhere as of yet.. You're the first I've found to describe my problem so closely..
I pray you get this and answer me.. its been going on for 2-3 yrs but its been particularly bad since over the last yr & a half..(while I was pregnant, then kept getting worse after...) my dr only did an xray bcs I also had foot drop when I went to see him.. (which turned out to be unrelated to my back, and went away after about 6 wks)... and according to him, my vertebra all looked fine.. except my L5 seems to think its part of my sacrum.. ie: it isn't mobile apparently... but he didn't really explain what this meant.. and kind of blew off the whole back issue since the foot drop i went in for ended up being from pressure on a nerve in my lower leg from the way I sit at my computer for extended periods.
Sorry to go on & on... just trying to think of everything involved, so I can see just how similar your pain & mine are.

Mostly it sounds like the severe pain on lying down, particularly on my back, for even short periods.. also i when i bend even slightly, like leaning over to change our son.. by halfway thru the changing- my lower back, (and sometimes what i call my dishwashing muscles in my back-right around bottom of shoulderblades/bra strap area) will be so intense & unbearable that I have to squat or sit down to finish his diaper change. And even then the pain is pretty severe.

I hope I've described this adequately.. also if anyone else sees this and has the same pain.. PLEASE reply, or post!!! ALSO, I am far from overweight- exactly the opposite.. I'm currently more than 20 lbs below my normal weight.. EVEN though I had a baby just over a year ago... and I have next to no appetite either. If I think of anything else, I'll post again..

Also depression and anxiety with panic attacks & agoraphobia are major, though, I think unrelated, issues.

Thank you to anyone who can give me ANY input!
~WendyView Thread

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