I see a lot of pain here but no good answers.

[campage1]

I've been reading this board now for maybe a week and a lot of the pain I see listed is pretty much what I have expirenced. Where is my pain? In thre back, in my buttocks, down to my anus, just below my gut, in my testicles, down the back of my legs, yet I'm told things don't look that bad.

About two years ago I was in bed for 3 day's from the pain in my back which the pain extends just around both sides of my gut into my testicles. This time though I was in bed for three day's. Not only was I hurting but I was badly nausau.  On the third day I couldn't take it any more and went to the hospital. Actually the nausa was worse then the pain, the nausa was really bad. At that time they put an IV in me and injected something for the nausa, and Demerol for the pain. Within seconds after injecting this the pain dropped from about a 6 down to about a 2 and the nausa quit altogether. They then did an MRI of my stomach but found nothing, which I knew they wouldn't being it was all coming from my back pain I figured.

As of lately the pain going around my gut, into my testicles and anus have stopped for some time, though it has happend lightly. This morning I wake up at 5:30 a.m. and my tailbone really hurts, about a 7 or an 8 on a scale from one to 10. If it got much wors, I was going to make a trip to the hospital. I couldn't even lay on my back so I turned onto my right side to try and go back to sleep. This was probably within a minte or two of time. I no sooner turned over on my right side when my wife also turned and ran her knee right into my tailbone! I just about jumped out of bed and said a few "choice" words which then woke her up. I then got out of bed and took 20mg of Oxycodone, that was about 4 hours ago and I still hurt quite a bit.

The funny thing about this is when I got up, my back pain was 0 to 1! Its like all the pain in my lower back went to my tailbone. Although I get pain in different places, it makes me wonder if they are missing something on the MRI? Have you ever heard of telepthey  pain? If you ever had a tooth ache you might have felt this. You will have pain on the other side of your mouth while the bad tooth causing the pain is on the other side.

Being this can happen, I'm wondering if they are looking at the wrong areas of my back that is causing the pain? Although I have DDD, a few protruding discs, facet syndrome, and a pinced nerve at L4, are they missing something else? Every time I go to the doctors I feel like I being treated as though I just have a minor back pain like a pulled muscle or if like you slept the wrong way and got up with a back ache. I don't think they realize how bad of pain I'm in at times.

Back to the MRI, are they missing something? I asked the person or the pain management doctor if when they do the MRI is it of your whole back or just where it hurts? She said just where it hurts, they don't do the whole back. This being the case, I started to wonder if maybe they are not getting an MRI of my tailbone? What if the problen is with the tailbone or around that area and there not getting inages from that area? And what "if" the main problem is there and through telepethy pain I think its actually in my lower back? Just something to think about.

[campage1]

Thanks for the suggestion!  I read this the other day and wanted to reply to you but had bruised my tailbone (unknown how) and couldn't set at the desk very well.

Campage1

[chadry]

I was thinking that maybe you could do a serch of images for the nerve pathways. It is always surprising where your pain is as compared to where it is starting from. key in a few of the places that came up on your MRI and find the nerve pathways from there. You can find the different diagrams that show where you may feel the pain form them places.
Chadry