After eating my cereal, I got up from my chair and BAM! horrible sharp pain in my lower back near my hip. bedridden until it alleviates itself.
I wish my back pain couldn’t ruin my entire day.
I’m going to try to get some sleep and see if it’ll accelrate things. It’s going to be so hard because I sleep near an open window of bright daylight that shines right into my eyes, and I already had a full 8 hours of sleep. this back pain is so aggrivating.
I knew my bed had a very bad structure that was extremely curving my back at night, so I stopped sleeping on my bed. I sleep on a sleeping mat and hadn’t had any problems till today.
I have quite a (thick?) rear and I think that when I lay on my back, my rear presses against my spine. I might get some pillow or something under my lap, to adjust for it. I might consider losing some weight, but I’m quite worried that I’d lose my muscle as well because a lot of my exercises use my body weight quite naturally like pushups, plank, lunges, etc.
painkillers might help, have you tried that?
sorry your backs sore
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Have you seen a physical therapist about your back pain? There are probably stretches you can do to help it, depending on what kind of pain it is. Laying down can be one of the worst things you can do for back pain, because it puts additional pressure on your back.
Hope u will feel good soon…!!!
I can’t fall asleep.
but thanks guys. I would love to see a doctor about it, but this type of back pain usually doesn’t occur much, at least ever since I started sleeping on this mat. I might just go about my day, but I’d have to be very very careful. I don’t want to slightly twist and then revisit the sharp pain again. I guess I’ll just take things slow, today.
I think I’ve been careless with my posture as well as I forgot to stretch yesterday, and that combination is probably what’s causing all this. but if this pain continues unto tomorrow, it might be a bigger issue.
There are some good yoga videos online for dealing with back pain. If you’re interested, look up Erica Vetra. She has a few videos on Prime, and she fully explains each pose.
You have my support.
Wish I could help
thanks. by the way, I googled " stretches for lower back site:edu" and scrolled down the website search results and saw this picture…
I’m going to see if I could put 2 or more lower back stretches into my weekday exercise routine. I only do 2, right now; and I hold each stretch for at least 14 seconds.
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I lift and move heavy stuff all day long, back hardly bothers me, twice I went to pick something off the coffee table and dropped to my knees with back pain, for me it’s the lower disk and I ly with a big rolled up towel under my lower back for 20 minutes and back to normal. It can happen while doing dishes, washing up etc, the disk moves out hitting the nerve. Still wondering how I can do the heavy stuff and nothing, but another guy says the same thing, it’s the small stuff that gets his to.
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I was given a cream to relieve the muscle pain of my back, too.
Depending on how you bent your back, it could take days to fully recover.
Now I like to take calcium supplement as I am a heavy coffee consumer.
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Here’s a song with the word “back” in the title.
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Are you trolling today @everhopeful? 
Trying to be humorous, but it always backfires!
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You gave me a giggle 
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thanks everyone. I’m feeling a little better. woke up early and sore, so found a pillow and rested with it against my back. felt a lot better when I woke. I never used pillows for years. but now I think I know what they are for.
I’m going to walk today. probably risky because my back could theoretically get random sharp extreme pains while I’m walking, but I’ll risk it.
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how was you walk / uneventful hopefully?
walk was okay. I did all my exercise. did feel some small pain, but lucky it wasn’t worse.
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That’s good to hear I only saw this post around now. I hope that you are able to recover without anymore back pain. I don’t know how much advice I could give other than maybe the push ups will help. I know that sit ups are back for your back though. I only messed up my back once a while ago.
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