Back Pain

I haven’t been doing so well lately, in my previous post I said that I thought I had a better relationship with the pain. When the nerve pain flares up or there is any medium plus change in where the pain is located I lose it. The doctors and the physical therapist tell me that this pain and these flare ups are just the normal part of rehabilitation of the sciatic nerve, and I know it’s true. But, I spend all day everyday thinking about it and I know that’s not normal. When I try to sleep I sometimes think I’m in a good place and then wake up an hour or two later with rising anxiety and I sit with general anxiety all day which I know isn’t good for my health. It might be time to try something different, I don’t know whether to try gabapentin or Zoloft. My therapist says Gabapentin and my family says Zoloft.
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I'm getting picked up in just under an hour. My caregiver is coming with me. I'm getting cortisone injections in both hips. I have to schedule another appointment for injection into my jaw. Both of my hips are really bad right now. Pain is shooting down my right leg. I showered and didn't sweat after. I'm not anxious or worried. I've had this done plenty of times. It'll be nice to see my doctor. He's also my caregivers doctor.

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Last night after stretching, I was laying in bed and the side my sciatica is on flared up and my back and glute were pinchy stingy. I tried to perform some mindfulness techniques and remind myself I can deal with it tomorrow morning and I shouldn’t judge right away. Well the tingling went through out my foot and partially up my calf making all the muscles fire and sting. I knew I had just probably irritated the nerve but I couldn’t let it go.

I got up this morning and went to the ER, I waited 4+ hours to be seen by a doctor all the while my anxiety raging through me. The doctor was nice, but just told me it’s what sciatica injuries do and it’s a normal flare up. I went home feeling like I wasted my morning and failed at my mental recovery since the two are so closely tied together. I don’t want to feel like any kind of pain is going to result in the worst case scenario, but I struggle so much relaxing and realizing that not everything is going to go wrong. So now I’m at home having used up all my “battery” today and feeling like I have to nap but can’t and wondering if I’ll be able to get out of bed and go for a small walk this afternoon. I hate this, keep fighting everyone, I hope you get there.

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2020... I had an IUD taken out thinking my severe sharp cramps were because of the IUD. Doctor put me on estrogen birth control and my menstrual cycle took a turn for the worst. I had a plague of symptoms that all were so severe. From severe lower back pain(I could not sleep on my back, had to sleep on my side, I couldn't just roll over, it hurt to even sit on the toilet. When I drove I had to sit on a circle pillows to keep my tailbome off the seat) I also had heavy peirods(clots, severe cramps then went into my inner thighs and would hurt my already painful back, light spotting carried on after peirods and in between periods, it was as if I only had a week off of bleeding a month) I had the worse bum cramps, peeing hurt all the time(burning, having to urinate often) Sometimes if I didn't pee I'd get sharp pains. Id have either constipation, diarrhea sometimes, depressive episodes. I couldn't wear a tampon(I ALWAYS wore them with no problem) but suddenly they didn't sit up there anymore, they'd get lodged sideways and fall out. I was forced to wear large pads. I couldn't physically go anywhere. It was a big deal to leave the house. Anyways fast forward. 2021-2022 I found a lady doctor who put me on Visanne, said if it worked it is likely Endometriosis. It worked. 98% symptoms gone. But I began getting severe left sided pain(and lower abdomen pain) She told me I needed the diagnostic surgery. Met the gyno. Specialist (who doubted it was Endo, thinks its IBS which I'm not against but that doesn't answer my menstrual issues) she put me on Myfembree. Which worked like gold! Fast forward again(after arguing with a gynecologist, I thought, "I just want to make sure it is endo and if we can get ahead of it") I had my surgery last week, they didn't find anything. She said it was just painful periods. (Btw, she BARELY read any of my history the lady doctor wrote down for me over the years, this specialist didn't read barely anything.) She isn't looking into my issues anymore. She said we will do a six week follow up on your surgery incisions and that's it. It sits so wrong with me. The medication is working, but I discussed with her before the surgery that the last med stopped working and I'm concerned about that happening again and she agreed. But now it's not a concern? I'll probably go visit the woman doctor again but I feel like I'm being ridiculous now. I feel like I'm overboard or I shouldn't be worried. Is there not other conditions this could be? Because I looked up the confusing word(painful periods) and that does not tick off my symptoms. Anyways, that's my very shortened story. Sorry about that.

I injured my back and developed nerve damage and have been in physio for a while, one of the things I deal with is that small pains make me feel like they are going to lead back to where I was, and I feel like I couldn’t do that again. I’m always so worried that any small new pain even if it was one I had a day or even two days ago is a bad thing and is going to lead to the worse case scenario my back locking up. I don’t know how to get out of this cycle most of the time and mindfulness techniques don’t seem to work although they probably do sometimes.
Back stiffness after exercise- it’s gonna get worse and your back is going to lock up.
Pain in your hip- it’s going to get worse affect your back and it’s going to lock up.
A sharp pain on the other side of the back- it’s going to mean you’ll have sciatic damage on the other side!
This is how my brain thinks, and not always having some pain doesn’t let my mind rest, how do the rest of you deal?
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Hi, my name is TGback. I have anxiety due to chronic back pain from an injury I suffered this summer. I can’t get out of my own mind whenever I feel a slight pain or discomfort in my lower back, I have tried many mindfulness methods to distance myself from these ideas but I’m struggling. Can anyone help?

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I woke up crying. I don't know why. But I feel deeply sad and worthless. I decided not to go to the cocoa crawl. My hip hurts like hell. There's no way I'd handle it anyway. It's at least 2 hours of walking.

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Hi, my name is Concerned9. I'm here because I am experiencing extreme back pain. I’ve been to my Primary Care Physician and to the ER.3 times in 3 weeks with no diagnosis and nothing but prescriptions for useless muscle relaxers and OTC pain meds which are laughable. I don’t know what to do.