Lower back pain only in morning

[SJMCRAE]

I wake every morning with horrible pain in lower back (kidney area) that radiates to the front of stomach (rib area).  I have had battery of tests and found nothing.  I am only able to sleep 5-6 hours before pain wakes me, also unable to take a deep breath until I get out of bed (very painful just to roll over), once I stand and get out of bed the pain almost immediately starts to ease.  After about 20 minutes of walking around and after first morning void, pain disappears for remainder of day.
Could this be a pinched nerve or nerve compression?  Had MRI of lower lumbar which showed normal...chiro recommends stretching excersises, something serious has to be wrong with this kind of pain.  If anyone has any ideas it would be GREATLY appreciated!!

[Lollypop77]

I have very similar issues.... Extreme lower back pain when I wake up in the morning.  It is sooo bad that I can barely get out of bed.  I've noticed that the amount of back pain depends on how many hours I am asleep in bed.  My back doesn't feel too bad if I only get 5 hours of sleep, but then I'm tired all day long.  If I happen to get 8 hours of sleep,  my back hurts like crazy!  The magnesium supplements and getting a harder bed sound like good ideas, also the stretching and strengthening abdominal muscles.             Lots of times, doctors don't really know what is causing our pain.  Its a trial and error process for then unless they see something obvious.

[jstec]

I have suffered from this condition for approximately six years.  It has been brutal, and I'm only 30 years old.  I think the answer is very basic, though.  We are simply not stretching enough of the right muscles.    I think the pain is caused by our legs pulling down on our lower backs, and particularly, the outside of the hips pulling and staying short.  The best way to stretch the hips is to fold a leg underneath you as you lay on your stomach, so it cuts across the other leg, and push down on it.  Another simple way to do it is to cross your legs in a chair at a 90 degree angle and push your knee down away from you (not with your hand, but with your leg), while leaning forward over the leg.  Try it now, since you're probably sitting.  I guarantee that it is hard to do this, and that the outside hip muscle is tight.  

We have to be really patient and stretch for up to an hour a day, thoroughly.  I've been doing it this week and the pain is going away.  Today I slept 8 hours for the first time in weeks.

[Jayedlady]

At birth I had spina bifida and it was corrected at  37 I have unbarrable pain while walking standing and laying down could it be from the condition I once had

[LivnwithpAin]

After years of suffering with pAin I have been diagnosed with anklyosing spondylitis. I am positive for the HLA B27 gene. Read up on it and request the tesf

[LivnwithpAin]

After years of suffering with pAin I have been diagnosed with anklyosing spondylitis. I am positive for the HLA B27 gene. Read up on it and request the tesf

[hawnsun]

I'm glad, CindiK and VanesaScot, that the psoas exercises are helping.  I'm still not 100% yet.  I'd say I'm about 95% better in my lower back. The tightness has shifted from my lower back to my groin area.  It's probably cause I don't have the proper setup for my computer viewing (which I plan to change soon).  Also, I find that if I do the exercises every day, then my psoas muscles are sore throughout the day (not just in the morning).  Probably will experiment with exercising gentler and see if the soreness is part of the healing process.  Any thoughts on this?  Also, it's interesting that you brought up the colon connection, CindiK, cause I've thought about that, too!