I'm 22 years old, and pregnant, although I doubt that has anything to do with my back since I'm only 12 weeks along. Anyway, I have kaiphosis in my upper back that I hope to eventually get surgery on, on x-ray it's pretty severe, over 70 degrees, but honestly not that visible and many people do not even notice.

Yesterday my mid to lower back started hurting pretty badly. Anytime I move my head down to a certain degree, or sideways, or my arms around, I just feel pain shooting through my mid to lower back. Even sitting still it is usually painful. When it first started hurting I didn't think much of it since I would have occasional pains like that that would last about 20 minutes, then go away.

Whenever I get up it is very unpleasant, even laying down when I change positions. It feels like it's shooting through my spine, almost out into my ribs even. I took a Tylenol PM last night, but I don't think it did very much at all. I've tried using heating pillows on it, and massaging heating pillows, I've stretched on the floor (and I must admit the least painful position for me was laying straight on the hard floor), but none of this has really helped any.

I figured it would be better today, but I can't tell if it's improved at all. Any suggestions on what it could be, or advice on how to make it better would be greatly appreciated. I'm not trying to be a huge wimp, but moving around the house is even hard for me, and that's very annoying. Thanks for taking the time to read my post!