Back Pain..Please Help?
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I AM NOT YOUR AGE, I AM 34 AND A NURSE. I WAS A CHEERLEADER AND PLAYED BASKETBALL IN SCHOOL. I HAD CONSTANT BACK PAIN AND PROBLEMS BECAUSE I HAD STRAINED MY BACK. I THEN HAD TO TAKE A BREAK ON MY ACTIVITIES FOR A MONTH. I THINK YOU NEED TO REST AWHILE ON THE WORKING OUT. IF YOU HAVE A PULLED MUSCLE OR STRAINED SOMETHING YOU ARE JUST MAKING IT WORSE. THIS NEEDS REST AND A TIME TO HEAL. I THINK YOU ARE JUST FINE, AND I AM SURE YOUR DOCTOR WILL TELL YOU THE SAME. TAKE A BREAK FROM WORKING OUT. DON'T WORRY YOU ARE FINE
Stop working out at the gym until you get a diagnosis. Stay away from chiropractors also until you get a diagnosis.
Go to the doctor and have a blood work up. Look for elevated calcium and protein in the blood. Check for anemia. Are you constantly fatigued? The test for protein is not standard and you may have to convince your doctor to have it run.
Have an x-ray on the ribs and vertebrae of your lower back. Look for small fractures.
If those come back positive have a fully body bone scan done. Look particularly for thinning of the bone in your skull.
What you are looking for is Multiple Myeloma a type of blood cancer in the same family as Non-hodgkins lymphoma.
Your symptoms are very similar to mine. It won't hurt you to rule MM or non-hodgkins lymphoma out. But have tests performed to specifically rule these two cancers out.
The conclusive test is a bone marrow biopsy and aspiration. But that test is complicated and painful and is only used to confirm the diagnosis.
Don't let doctors tell you that there is nothing wrong with you and send you home with some homeopathic analgesic. MM in particular is insidious and hard to diagnose.
I do not mean to scare you but I spent months suffering with back pain that kept getting worse and worse until I could no longer get out of bed and the doctors still did not know what was wrong with me. At one point they had written me off as a nut and sent in the shrink. Then someone ordered a bone scan on a hunch and the doctor who read the scan diagnosed MM.
You are a bit young to have this type of cancer. They told me I was young at 49. I spoke to a fellow last year who was 31. So the odds are in your favor that you have something easy to fix. But the blood test is pretty easy and not too expensive.
I hope it turns out to be something like a pinched nerve or something minor. Good luck.
It is good that you are going to a doctor. You may need to be persistent in order to get a diagnosis. Cancer can be deceptive and difficult to locate, but you cannot rule it out quite yet.
Young people are capable of working through any pain or odd physical feelings because they are strong and healthy. No one ever expects a young healthy person to have cancer. So, generally by the time a doctor or the patient get down to a diagnosis the cancer is already advanced.
You are taking this seriously, and that is a good thing. I have no way of knowing if this is cancer it could be something totally different, that is why you need to be examined. But, I just wanted you to be aware that there are other cancers besides lymphoma.
Young adults are more susceptible to certain types of cancers than older people. Bone cancers such as osteosarcoma and ewings sarcoma as well as soft tissue sarcoma's (cancer of the connective tissues) are all possible for your age group.
The important thing is to keep your doctors appointment and talk over your concerns with him. Go with your instinct . . tell him you are concerned it might be cancer. Hopefully he will take you seriously and order a CT to be done of this area.
Good luck and stay strong.
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I think maybe you have been over doing the gym, But having it checked out by a doctor was a good thing. Did you tell him you work out? Might give him a key as to what to look for.
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