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it’s been happening for 2 days now. i’ve took tylenol and motrin but nothing help. icy hot doesnt help either. any ideas on what it could be?
just got finished with my period.
kidney problems from diabetes? Avoid sugar. get the a1c test.
i have been laying down for a while now, and when i try to adjust my position i get a short stabing pain in my lower back why?
recent injury or past injury ? i have the same thing and my lumbur sticking out go to the doctors and they will give you meds ( didnt work for me but they might work for you ) and will also get you to take x-rays and then if you still have pain they will make you do these exercises that make it worse for me anyways for 6 weeks and if that still doesn’t work then they will make you take a catscan
hi i have been getting lower back pain on the left side which is affecting my buttocks and the back of my legs i wake up every morning throbbing in the back and cant get comfortable (wake up really aching) i cant stay in bed longer then 6 – 8hrs as i start to really ache and wake up in the night needing to urinate and also i have been suffering with bloatedness and pains in left lower abdomen i have been getting really irregular periods as i am bleeding for 15-20 days at a time every month and i feel tired and weak all the time have no energy sometimes to even walk, feeling like i am unwell. I have also been getting pains in my left side of my breast and my left sided ribs feel bruised, when taking deep breathes it hurts my chest, i also have been having a itchy back and dry skin and chest pain and everytime i exercise i get really bad heartburn also my appetite isnt as good as before im not feeling like i want to eat some days im ok and most of the time i dont fancy anything been having these problems for the past 4-5 months now, dont no whats going on is there anybody that can help or who has experienced the same problems please help!!
thanks
Sounds as though u may have an ovarian cyst
go to ur gp who can help
I have pain in my lower back about mid way down and only on one side. I don’t drink or take meds, although i don’t drink enough water but eat well and not overly dehydrated. this pain just started and only felt when i lean a certain way were i feel that im stretching my left side that’s when it hurts or when I sleep on my left side. the pain is a dull pain that i know is there but not excruciating.
It may be a kidney infection or a kidney stone. In any case, you should get it checked.
i am a 16 year old girl and i have a few medical questions. i have a pain in the upper abdomen, which goes into my lower left side and back. the pain is also in my chest and right breast. i have a moderate headache over my right eyes which comes and goes. i am achy, and tired, and currently have a fever of 99.5. what could this be?
also, now the pain is moving to my right side, but still causing pain to my left. the pain in my back is now at my shoulder blades. i took a blood test friday and the results havent come in yet so i am trying to hold off on going to the hospital. diabetes does not run in our family and i do not obtain that medical condition so i dont think that has anything to do with this.
Sounds like a trip to the emergency room is in order. Have your parents take you.
Okay, I know I’m not getting a doctors diagnoses here but I’ve already complained to my doctors and they are not saying much.. My lower left side of my back has been hurting a little over a week now. At first I thought I slept wrong but it got so bad over the weekend, whenever I laughed, walked, ran or moved around. The next day was a little better and the day after that was a lot better. I still went to urgent care because people said it could be kidney stones or and infection. The doctor did a urine test and said everything looked fine. Now I do have ovarian cysts on my left side so she just said the pain could be caused by the cyst and sent me off with painkillers. Now the pain is back and it woke me up in the middle of the night. On top of that I’ve had 3 cold sores and am on my second term of being sick with a cold in less than a month. Not to mention I’ve been extremely tired and week, more than I ever felt in my life. I finished off a whole series of antibiotics and am still sick. What’s the deal? I’m half tempted to go the ER but I don’t want to go if it’s nothing.
Go to the ER, get a second opinion. Ruptured Cysts and kidney infection, etc.. will give you a fever of sorts and need to be treated appropriately. Pain killers may ease the pain for a bit but they won’t solve the problem. Better safe than sorry. Your sciatic nerve is on your left side. Once that is impinged on or strained you will get tremendous pain on your left side, starting with the soft part of your lower back (where your kidneys are), down the middle of your butt and to the outside of your leg and will eventually move down your left leg in a kind of winding way.
If you have been coughing you could easily have thrown your back out.
The pain is in my lower left side, above my waist. Its on my back, but very far to the left side. I was wondering it if might be dangerous?
thats where your kidney is.
you may have a kidney stone, i would see a doctor.
ok i have some pain on my lower left back and my left side. i been gasy lately and on my left side it feels like something inside is hurting maybe an organ or something? and i have been drinking coke and also some food like chicken and tacos and poptarts. is this serious? also it hurst when i use the bathroom. well when i do #2.
can anyone tell me what it is and what i should do?
kinda sounds like you have kidney stones or gallstones. my cousin had gallstones for eating junk food for about two weeks straight and one day she just couldnent handle the pain and it turned out to be gallstones so if it hurts a lot on a scale of 1-10 and its about a 6 or up then you should get it checked if it doesnt then try eating less junk food and youll be okay
hey i have severe chest pains and pain in the lower areas of my back- almost on the side. both sides hurt but the left side is agonizing. i’m afraid to visit the doctor- even after being advised that i should- i feel as if i don’t have an emergency and like doctors will be wasting their time. and somehow i feel embarrassed… do u know where the pains come from?
i hear that it’s indigestion.. from what may i ask—- i don’t even eat- i barely have an appetite and i have dropped 18 pounds in the last 6 months… i look anorexic and i’m 5′3′ at only 100 pounds
Okay – let’s have a think about the possibilities.
From the outside in, your pains could come from:
Skin – classically from shingles but other skin rashes or skin conditions can be painful. Shingles is often associated with blisters and a classic rash. You would need to see a doctor about this to get the special antiviral medication you would need.
Chest wall – ribs, intercostal muscles – these could be sore if you have been struck on the chest (eg been in a fight or in a car accident). Viral illnesses can cause inflammation of the ribs typically where they join on to the sternum (breast bone). The pain here is often worse when you breath or with movement of the chest wall (coughing, laughing … movement of the trunk).
Chest wall – spinal muscles – these can be sore if you have strained them (in activities, particularly lifting heavy objects) or again with trauma to the chest. If you also have a fever and are unwell in an infected kind of way (sweats, shivers, poor appetite, feeling like you have a bad flu) then you could possibly have some sort of abscess or infection there – rare, but possible.
Spine – you are too young to have much arthritis in your spine. However you can still have a variety of ailments that cause "chest pain" which arise from your spine. Disc protrusion and disc bulges can compress nerve roots and give rise to a shooting electrical nerve pain that goes around the side and around to the front. Infections of the spine or areas around the spine would give you pain in the back, associated with fevers/chills/loss of appetite etc. Cancer of the spine – very uncommon at your age.
Lungs
(1) pleurisy – viral illnesses and autoimmune diseases can give rise to inflammation of the lining of the lung (pleura) classically a pain that hurts most when breathing or coughing (ie when the lungs are moving)
(2) pneumonia – gives a similar pleurisy pain, associated with the infective signs – fever/chills/loss of appetite. PNEUMONIA CAN KILL YOU (I found out today an elderly patient I arranged an admission for a fortnight ago struggled on with a severe pneumonia and eventually died 5 days later) particularly if you are old/extremely young (like less than 1 yo)/or especially infirm with medical illnesses
(3) pulmonary embolism – the "economy class syndrome" ie. clot in the lung – can be very insidious with minimal complaints or can give this pleurisy pain again as the lining of the lung is inflamed when the lung has no oxygen to a portion. The clot (usually comes from the legs) travels in the veins to the heart with the de-oxygenated blood and then travels out to the lungs where the blood is re-oxygenated. But the clot sticks somewhere and blocks the circulation to that part of the lung. Very tricky to diagnose. May require a blood test to exclude, or perhaps one (or more) of a variety of special scans. PULMONARY EMBOLISM CAN KILL YOU – all it takes is a sizeable clot to block off both pulmonary arteries and you fall down dead before you can call the ambulance.
(4) pneumothorax – air between the lung lining and the chest wall – can occur with trauma (esp with rib fracture), penetrating trauma, or spontaneously (esp in young tall skinny people, esp in asthmatics) – again with the pleurisy type pain, shortness of breath – need a Chest X-ray to diagnose this. PNEUMOTHORAX CAN KILL YOU – some types cause a one-way-valve effect with more and more air accumulating in the chest, compressing the heart and great vessels and eventually blocking bloodflow out of the chest
Not convinced to go to the doctor yet? Read on!
Heart
(1) Ischaemic heart disease – very unlikely in a person in your age group and gender. The "heart attacks" we see in young people are usually associated with amphetamine or cocaine use. There is a small group that are caused by vasculitis. Any drug that closes up your blood vessels can close up blood vessels in your heart and cause lack of oxygen to the heart muscle. This in turn leads to chest pain and cardiac muscle cell death. Different pain to the lung pains. ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE CAN KILL YOU
(2) Pericarditis/myocarditis – usually viral or autoimmune – can sometimes have a pleuritic type chest pain, or can be constant and mimic a heart attack. This is usually diagnosed on ECG (EKG if you’re in the States) and/or by a process of excluding other causes
Great Vessels
Dissecting aneurysm classically causes a tearing back pain. AORTIC ANEURYSM CAN KILL YOU if it ruptures and pours blood into your chest. This is quite a rare condition
Oesophagus
Gastro-oesophageal Reflux (GORD) (oh yes, GERD if you must) can cause a burning pain usually central and up and down in the front of the chest. This is occasionally worsened with posture being better on standing up and worse on bending over or lying down.
Kidney Stones
These typically cause a pain on one side of the back or the other – and the pain can radiate down into your groin. The pain is classically described as extremely severe – worse than childbirth (is what the men say) or as bad as childbirth (or sometimes not quite as bad).
Other things I’m not going to reference. Look them up yourself if you think this is what is going on: gastritis, pancreatitis, biliary colic, (hepatitis – liver is on your right)
Now – what should you do about all this? I think you need to go see a doctor who can ask the proper questions and examine you properly before moving on to some special tests.
Enough of these things can kill you that you should give thought to attending an emergency department rather than seeing your usual doctor.
When i pee i get this achy pain in my in the left side of my lower back, the pain then continues for about an hour after wards before subsiding until i need to pee again, there is no burning pain when I am urinating nor is there any pain anywhere else, just in my lower back. What could this be? I am 16 by the way and male.
I am not a doctor, but I would say you have a left kidney problem, hopefully just an infection that can be cured with antibiotics. You only have 2 kidneys and kidney failure means you have to take dialysist treatments or die. But you can live fine on one kidney, just no backup.
Have I convinced you to see a doctor right away? That is my answer; see a doctor or go directly to a urology specialist.
