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Hip, pelvic,lower back pain on left side with pain down left leg at times.
by stardust195, May 07, 2007 12:00AM
I have pain in lower back on left side, left hip pain, left pelvic pain and pain down the left leg at times. It comes and goes. Gets real bad,(when I put weight on left leg) then can ease up within minutes with changing position. I had similar trouble when I was about 30 but it went away. Any ideas? I am 47 now.
Big Orange Fayray
Here is the pain that I have been feeling for a little over a week; the pain seems to be within my left hip but I cant really pinpoint it, and it is constint. I havent fell or anything and my girl friend is having the same but on her right side.
Alot of the posts I read were from like 2004 but itf this something affect alot of people and no one has an answer somethings wrong and needs to be done becuase I cant imagine having this pain for the rest of my life or as long as some members --- lets help each other.
The only thing I found that helps is Yoga. But, you have to be very careful not to overdo it. Be aware of your condition and your limits. I thought because I could do a certain stretch that I should and ended up overdoing it and pulled my hip out further. It does help to do a few minutes several times a day.
Hope this works for you as it has for me.
Low back pain, the most common musculoskeletal condition, is responsible for the loss of 17 million work days per year in the United States and ~$60 billion of the annual U.S. health care budget. (*)
How old are you? What is your name? Are you a male?
70 to 80% of adults experience severe back pain at some time during their lives. Pathologic back pain can originate within the spine (spondylogenic or neurogenic) or outside the spine (viscerogenic, vascular, or psychogenic).
Back pain is more common in males than in females because of their higher rates of involvement with manual labor, motor vehicle injuries, and industrial accidents.
Causes of back pain could be traumatic or non-traumatic.
Traumatic causes includes Fractures/micro fractures (causes severe immediate back pain), Dislocations, Herniated discs, Ligament tears.
Atraumatic causes can be Degenerative disc disease, Degenerative spinal stenosis, inflammatory arthritis, Osteoporosis, Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis, Neoplasm’s, Primary or metastatic tumor, Infection.
Have you seen a doctor? Did you visit an orthopaedician? What he has to say about this? Is any imaging being done? What were the results of imaging study?
What pain meds are you on and how are they spaced out during the day?
Keep me informed about your condition and your health in general.
How are you feeling now and are you on any treatment.
Bye.
*-McCulloch J, Transfeldt E. Epidemiology and natural history of spondylogenic backache. In: Macnab's Backache, 3rd ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1997:240 to 246.
What is your name? How are you feeling? Is there lot of pain in left side?
I think either it is your lower back strain or metastasis of your local malignancy.
In both cases you need to meet your primary physician and also orthopaedician to rule out possible pathologies.
Imaging studies of pelvic