Ash,
Almost sounds like a nerve problem to me. Might just have a lumbar vertibre setting on a nerve. That is usually what happens when the get compressed. Depending on what vertibre it is will decide what part of your body it will refer too. Like L-1 will refer and make you kidney's feel pain. If this is the case, sounds like it is a very low lumbar vertibre. I am no doctor, just some guess work on my part. You might have a pinched nerve due to a compressed low vertibre.

Carrie

It's most likely a pinched nerve and pain meds dont work all the time. I had l5 s1 completely broken and poking into my nerve core, also sharp shooting pain down my right leg. I went to a spine specialist and the xrays showed the broken vertibre. I had a rod and 4 screws put in my back on Jan 14th of 08. For the first time in almost 2 years no back or leg pain. I would check with a spine doc and see what is the problem.

sounds like sciatica to me
whihc i had and it really sucked

Ooooh, ouch. That must hurt

Siactica starts with a nerve in the middile of you butt and moves down you leg.

I have to go see my neurologist again on Friday. I HOPE that he can do the steroid epideral if it is indeed a pinched nerve. I just started a new job and I am not 100%, to say the least and my job is in jeopardy! He didnt give me ANYTHING for pain! It just seems like he could have done something more! I dont have insurance either so I have to pay for office visits and that is really expensive. I am in a rut and dont know what to do. The doctors at the ER think that I am just a drug seeker, but I suppose in some weird sense I am because I NEED the pain pills just to be able to walk. I am walking with a cane and I am 35!!

You are in extreme pain, why would the doctors not give you anything for pain? That's awful

I dont know why they wouldnt give me anything for pain. I have had to go to the ER 4 different times and they have given me Lortab and Flexeril, but neither seem to help. I dont have any insurance so the ER is quite expensive. I am at a loss on what to do! I just want the pain to go away, either through pain meds or surgery or whatever, it doesnt matter to me just as long as the pain goes away!!

That's just awful, I have some lower back pain that started in 9th grade (im in 11th now) and it hurts. Ur pain must be unbearable.