low back pain getting worse? - Multiple Sclerosis Message Board

lillyfields · 09-07-2008, 08:46 PM

I have had this low back pain on and off for most of this year. It seems to be getting worse. I mentioned it to my pcp and they just ignore it. It feels like my spine is grinding into the bottom of my pelvice. Nothing seems to ease it. It is getting worse. Does anyone else have this problem. or does it have nothing to do with ms????

Bearygood · 09-07-2008, 09:04 PM

Ouch! No one can say for sure but it at least doesn't sound MS-ey. Can you get a referral to a back specialist? You also might want to post on the back problems board here -- someone might have an idea.

Keep us posted!

gwen1961 · 09-08-2008, 10:09 AM

I have low back pain, big time. My nuro did an mri on my spine and said that I have ms in my spine. I asked him, if that is why my back hurts so much, he said probably. So my family doctor gave me some medicine that really helps it is called ultram er.

Lala9 · 09-08-2008, 09:48 PM

Hi lillyfields... sooo sorry to hear about your TERRIBLE PAIN! Did I miss it.. are you diagnosed with MS? Personally, I am not diagnosed with MS but have recently come to this board with my symptoms... some of which apparently fall into the category of MS. I found your thread very interesting, however, as I do believe I can relate at least in somewhat to your pain. I've had lower back pain for as long as I can remember, I am now 20. The feeling is absolutely terrible at times, I need to walk in an attempt to ease the pressure, but most times walking won't help so I lay down in pain only to have it feel the same as it did initially. It is a feeling as if I need to crack my back or twist to ease the pressure, and when I do nothing happens! The pain is still there! I try applying pressure or having my boyfriend push hard on it with the thought it may be a pinched nerve or knot--but no relief. I bend any way possible all in thinking it will get better, again no luck. When the pain is bad it usually lasts for weeks, easing at times but mostly being around constant. Then it may go away for a few days, and be back again later. It's almost a stabbing pain and at occassions the lower back actually spasms or twitches as well. Does that sound somewhat familiar to what you are experiencing?

I'm soo sorry for your discomfort!

Bearygood · 09-09-2008, 06:58 AM

Re: back pain, the reason I responded the way I did is because lillyfields mentioned it's low (and also intermittent).

If it's in the lower back, I do not think that MS is the first thing someone would suspect for the reason that the spinal cord is not in the lumbar area of the spine. (Except at the very upper junction where it meets the thoracic.)

On the flip side of the coin, my lesion on my t-spine at t-10 does mean that pain I experience generating from that area is most probably MS.

Just be careful -- not everything is MS!