On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:42:53 -0500, Ignoramus29059
wrote:

Just a little update.

This is definitely a spine pain, not a kidney stone or anything.

I tried hanging on a pullup bar. (I do pullups) This really helps.

Just hanging on it helped me a great deal, I go there once in a while,
life does not look quite bleak, but it still hurts and I cannot do
anything.

i

I've got back spasms several times, last two from balancing kayaks
overhead and throwing them up on top the suburban. About a week
later, pow! Muscle relaxers unknot the situation, then stretching and
exercise. You need a doctor to diagnose whether you've got more
serious problems like a blown disc or something.

Assuming it's muscular, the muscles I was neglecting are inside the
spine (if I was butchering a deer, it'd be the tenderloin). I wasn't
stretching back, only forward. I found I need to be careful
stretching back, overdid it, and back was sore for two days. I was
laying on my stomach, raised up on not quite straight arms, let pelvis
sag too near floor. Now more on knees, hold for count of 10, 10
times. Also on back exercises lifting butt with calves on chair 100
times, doing Larry's stretch of knees to either side, leg stretches,
etc. My doc recommended a heating pad before stretching, warm muscles
stretch better.

Also, in addition to my 3 mi. walk with the dogs in the morning, I'm
going to add some weights for upper body and lose some weight.

Good luck with your back. Take care of it, you can't do much when
it's out as you just found out.

Pete Keillor

On 2011-04-17, Doug White wrote:
Ignoramus29059 wrote in
:

This morning started out really great. I did not lift anything
heavy. Drove somewhere in my pickup to pick a tool box. When I got out
of the truck, just after 30 minutes of driving, I had sudden back pain
and could not stand up straight without some pain.

For the next 2 hours, I could function, move around and carry things,
but with substantial discomfort.

Then I tried to turn a toolbox around, kind of pushed with one hand in
one direction. Then the pain suddenly became so severe that I could
barely walk. Barely made it to the couch, where I am right now,
totally out of commission.

WTF is wrong and does anyone have any idea if this will ever go away.

In addition to the suggestions about muscles & the like, if it's mostly
on one side, it could be a kidney stone.

The pain can be excruciating. It can come & go pretty much randomly,
with no other symptoms. More often, there may be blood in the urine, or
cloudiness from a UTI.

Good luck, whatever it is.

Doug White