Afternoon all,
Anyone able to shed any light before I go see the docs.
Basically my lower back, on the right hand side I've had an issue with for around a year. One morning I woke up and felt slight pain in this side. I warmed up and then tried doing some stretches that morning, straight afterwards I felt a sharp pain in this area, and immediately fell to the floor.
I then spent 4 days in bed whilst this pain spread to my whole back and was ridiculously painful when moving at all. There was no pain or numbness in my lower legs.
After a few more days the pain receded, and left the original spot I woke up with a little sore. After a while that went away.
Now, every now and again I feel this spot go "tight" and if from a sitting position, I twist my back (swiveling at the hips) I can do something that can only be described as "popping" the area. Something clicks, but like a deep dull sound but it feels very blunt and almost like a popping sensation in this same area.
Now I've been going back to the gym, and this hasn't been causing a problem until September this year when I woke up and again the area was stiff, within 20 minutes it was like previous where it took over my whole lower back, again bedridden for a few days.
I'd put it down to some kind of trapped nerve possibly, and always thought after a few days it sorted its self out, so have not worried to much.
However now I tried to do some lower back work at the gym, the pain is instant, and I must stop doing back curls immediately, I can still perform this "popping" thing every few days, but generally unless I'm excessively stretching or doing any kind of weight it doesn't give me any problems.
This area of the back is shown below, but is on the other side.
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