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Intermittent Crippling Back Pain
by Tony81, Jul 18, 2008 02:06PM
Hi,
Am posting this for a relative who has been suffering with back pain with the last 4 weeks.
He has been to an osteopath who said it was a trapped nerve and who solved the problem for a little while but it has flared up again.
From what I have read, trapped nerve usually results in ongoing pain but in this case it occurs very intermittently as very sharp unbearable pain lasting a few seconds to the lower back, resulting in him barely able to stand and sometimes falling to the floor.
He is a farmer and in the last week can work away on the farm without a problem, doing manual work etc with not a hint of pain but when he goes anywhere else (shop, someone elses house, or even meeting a visitor on the farm), the pain occurs immediately, seemingly the fear of it occuring in public is sending a signal from the brain to the affected nerve and causing him to collapse in a number of shops, etc the last few days. It is now at the stage where he is almost a prisoner on the farm. All he got from the doctor was a prescription for valium and little else advice. Just wondering has anyone here experienced anything similar to this before and how was it solved?
He literally can work on the farm for a day without a problem but then go to the local village and get these severe pains in each and every shop he enters, or while meeting people on the street, eventually manage to drive home and be fine again then working away at home.
I hope I have made it clear enough, feel free to ask questions, thanks in advance for any help in this situation which isn't getting any better.
Am posting this for a relative who has been suffering with back pain with the last 4 weeks.
He has been to an osteopath who said it was a trapped nerve and who solved the problem for a little while but it has flared up again.
From what I have read, trapped nerve usually results in ongoing pain but in this case it occurs very intermittently as very sharp unbearable pain lasting a few seconds to the lower back, resulting in him barely able to stand and sometimes falling to the floor.
He is a farmer and in the last week can work away on the farm without a problem, doing manual work etc with not a hint of pain but when he goes anywhere else (shop, someone elses house, or even meeting a visitor on the farm), the pain occurs immediately, seemingly the fear of it occuring in public is sending a signal from the brain to the affected nerve and causing him to collapse in a number of shops, etc the last few days. It is now at the stage where he is almost a prisoner on the farm. All he got from the doctor was a prescription for valium and little else advice. Just wondering has anyone here experienced anything similar to this before and how was it solved?
He literally can work on the farm for a day without a problem but then go to the local village and get these severe pains in each and every shop he enters, or while meeting people on the street, eventually manage to drive home and be fine again then working away at home.
I hope I have made it clear enough, feel free to ask questions, thanks in advance for any help in this situation which isn't getting any better.
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