Lower back pain for years
Author: CHRISTA (08/28/2006 12:31 PM)
Original Message:
The pain is right above where my butt-crack ends. Sorry for the crude term but I don't know the medical one. I have a small dimple above that area and the pain is all around the dimple.

The pain is constant, a dull ache and it gets worse when I have walked or stood for a long time. Short walks do not bother it. I really like to hike in the Blue Ridge mountains but any prolonged walking really sets it off and I have to bend forward and stretch the back to make the pain go away. The pain never leaves that area.

I have seen a pain doctor who did injections into my SI joint and that helped for a little while but it never went completely away. My chiropractor says the culprit is my psoas muscle, that it's chronically short and that it is pulling my lower back into lordosis. I do have lordosis, to the point where, if I lay down, you can pass your hand under my lower back without touching my skin.

I am overweight and am trying everything I can think of to lose weight because I am sure that the excess weight makes matters worse. Any sort of exercise using my legs for longer than a few minutes makes the pain flare up.

I can't see an end to the pain, other than to be high on narcotic pain killers or muscle relaxants. The constant battle with pain is sapping my will to live because it is just not worth it to be in pain all the time and I'm trying to hard to lose weight but can't exercise and can't starve myself either. I tried pilates last week and got dizzy within 3 second of starting. It is a vicious cycle with no end in sight.

Thank you for any insight you might have into what is causing this pain.