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!!

[CindiK]

Awesome news Vanesa.  I agree that the Psoas exercises are the specific solution and the reasons I've personally got myself into this painful situation is that I cycle a LOT and I sit at the computer a LOT, and the two together mean that I never stretch the Psoas!  Good luck and lets keep posted.  Sadly, it isnt a CURE, but it certainly is HELPING! ;) IF I am lazy and dont stretch the psoas, I have farrrrr more pain!  Hawnsun has really helped us here!

[Paulinareb]

I am 21 and have had no kids and I experience this severe pain almost every morning, if not every at least 3/4 times a week. I cheered and danced all of my life do maybe that had something to do with it but I have had X-rays, blood work, kidney ultra sounds etc. and everything comes back normal. For about a year I have been trying to figure out where this horrible morning pain in my lower back/spine/kidney area has been coming from! Its hard to describe the pain to the doctors because it doesn't feel like a sore pain it almost feels (as weird as it may sound) like poison in my back! It hurts horribly to take deep breaths and to move. Once I'm up the pain fades within about 15/20 minutes and is gone all day long. It makes no sense I just want to know what it could be!

[Homeo]

There are lots of natural remedies for middle back pain if it left side the easiest thing you can get is licorice but natural licorice if you have it in the morning as tea next day you should be much better but homeopathic  Glycyrrhiza glabra 5c is much stronger and better, anyways both work as well you should be pain free in 7 days good luck.      

[sputnik51ca]

Hi everyone,

I'm a 27-year-old female in good physical shape. About 2 months ago I started waking up with severe mid-back stiffness that prevented me from finding a comfortable position...and then when I tried to move - ouch! Sharp stabbing pains.

I have tried:
Changing my mattress (no difference except I'm now poorer)
Getting an x-ray (they found a bit of degeneration but they couldn't tell me if it was causing the pain or if it was just a normal part of aging)
Going to physio (no difference, but I'm still faithfully doing the stretches every day)
Sleeping on my back (with pillows under my knees)/side(with a pillow between my knees) rather than my stomach (it actually hurts worse!)

Now I'm currently going to massage therapy, which seems to help. My massage therapist says that my ribcage is twisted/uneven. She is able to correct this through massage (I have knots upon knots upon knots). So this is hopeful but it's not fixed yet.

I'm also trying out yoga and magnesium supplements - just started, so still skeptical.

The only thing that REALLY REALLY helps is sleeping with a Thermacare heat patch all night. I know there's all these scary warnings on the box telling you not to sleep with them because you could burn yourself etc. but I guarantee you won't (unless you have incredibly sensitive skin). They last 8 hours and they haven't eliminated all of the stiffness,but I can sleep through the night and no longer get the shooting pains that jar me awake.

Good luck everyone...and p.s. don't you hate it when people post, "You should go see your doctor"? Yeah I know!!! Been there done that...the doctors are baffled so I'm resorting to the internet...

[Homeo]

Start with taking body fish oil capsule just before sleep although there are many other remedies for this condition but this is the easiest for all to get , now for sciatic pain I use micro dose of vitamin B1 depending on  which side , unfortunately you can’t get B1 in micro dose  

[Claiton345]

My problem started with a low back pain. After some exercises it almost disappeared.  Later the pain reappeared in the middle of the night, around 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and nothing seems to stop it. When I wake up, for about 20 minutes, I feel this intense pain in by buttock and right leg again and I can only reduce it after some stretching. Then my sleeping hours are gone. I tried different approaches to whatever was causing my sciatic nerves to act so painfully. One day I realized that most of the pain would go way (within 20 minutes or so) after I went to the bathroom for a # 1 or the habitual morning # 2 or just releasing some gas from my bowels. I realized that the pains were more intense when I had load of stool, or my bladder was filled or I had in my intestines ready to be unloaded or let go. So based on that I decided to modify my diet and observe the changes. Now I trying to modifying my meals time so I will go to the bathroom before I go to sleep. This way I won't have much left over in my intestines during the night, I am eating foods that are rich in fiber, avoiding foods that produce lots of gases when trapped in the intestine, and drinking very little liquids before I go to bed. My believe is that these residues of food produce gases as well as an enlarged filled bladder pushes and compress the sensitive nerves in the sciatic region and create that early morning pain. If this theory proves correct there will be some benefits with it. Firstly there will be some loss of weight because you will be eating healthier food. Second it will help to clean your colon tract. Forth, you will be able to sleep more hours and won't feel tired the rest of the day and the list goes on and on. Anybody can try that. If it doesn't help, it won't hurt either. Reply to ***@****
Fortunately I am feeling some progress and hope I am correct in my theory.