Random question...

[moominmuppet]

(which I'll also ask my doctor next month when I see her)

Does anyone have experience with back pain that starts in the lower back, and spreads all the way around the abdomen, such that one feels nauseated as well, and climbs up the spine to wrap around the lower ribs, making breathing somewhat painful also? Some positions are more uncomfortable than others, but no position seems to alleviate the pain, so when it happens at night (which is when it most commonly does), it makes it almost impossible to sleep.

It's very sucky and very weird, and I have no idea what the hell is going on. It's happened every so often in the past year or two, I don't recall it happening previous to that.

Comments

[eris-esoteric.livejournal.com]

I have that exact same thing, very sporadic, and it's very specific variety of pain that starts at this particular spot in the small of my back. Then it spreads slow, ending a few hours later in that tight, nauseated feeling that absolutely nothing gets rid of. I had also assumed it was just the fibro (being a typical, unexplainable painy kind of thing) and hadn't ever bothered to ask about it.

Maybe we should all ask. I'm so glad you talk about this kind of stuff, so many of us just don't unless it's to the doctor, and then there's so much that sometimes I forget stuff like that, that could be important but I wouldn't know the difference.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you talk about this kind of stuff, so many of us just don't unless it's to the doctor, and then there's so much that sometimes I forget stuff like that, that could be important but I wouldn't know the difference.

I have to say, it's definitely reassuring to know I'm not the only one who's getting this (although in that rueful "I wouldn't wish it on anyone" kind of way)!

Now to find a way to make it go the fuck away! (and I promise I will be sharing anything the docs say about that)

[compostwormbin.livejournal.com]

I haven't asked because most of my doctors just get exasperated by everything I already bring to them. Makes me reluctant to talk about the issues I find less pressing. But if you ask please let me know what answer you get.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Part of my interest in becoming an NP is that they generally do get more face-time with patients, and much more opportunity to do patient-education and such (this is largely a result of them having lower salaries than MDs).