I am suffering severe lower back and leg pain, no ins., any pain releif suggestions?
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I would go to a chiropractor, and get a big red exercise ball to sit on.
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Go see a doctor.
I have had minor back pain for years and had good success with certain stretches and vitamin C (green pepper is the most absorbable source i have found), but a swollen muscle is not part of "minor" back pain. That sounds serious.
You and your family cannot afford for you to spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair. Get it checked. Know what you are dealing with.
Try some simple stretches - carefully!
1. Get a chair. Stand with your back to it. Put the instep of one foot on the chair so your leg is bent about 90 degrees. Now lean backward slowly, as far as you can without falling over, keeping your back square to your pelvis. You can hold on to the back of the chair. Repeat with each foot a few times.
2. Sit down on a rug or carpet with your legs out in front of you. Grab one foot and bend your leg until your heel is almost touching your bottom. Now try to lay down without raising the knee too high. Repeat for each leg a few times.
Feel better yet?
Yoga exercises for back pain
http://www.askaquery.com/question/Yoga-exercises-for-back-pain.html
It could be just a pinched nerve, I think they call it "Cyatica". On the other hand, it could be something more serious. I had a buddy that had similar symptoms, and in the end he had a ruptured disc that he had to have fixed. After denying his problem for six months, he finally couldn't take the pain anymore and went to the doctor. He had to have surgery, which was $20,000 or so, but now he is fine. He didn't have health insurance either. A county hospital will have to take care of you, and you can make payments. Myself, I started to have lower back pain and my right leg started to go numb. I tried to ignore it even though I have health insurance. After six months of ignoring the increasing symptoms, I went to the doctor, and he said I had a bulging disc in my L4-L5 area of my back. I tried physical therapy, but my condition got worse. I went to see a neurologist after that, and he thought I had M.S. I went to the hospital for an emergency M.R.I., and they found a tumor in my neck around C4-C-6. Luckily, it wasn't malignant and they got 99% of it out. I thought I was in the clear, and went back to work after three weeks. Unfortunately, I developed Transverse Myleites in my T-10 vertebebre after that (I think now that it developed from an infection caused by the lumbar drain after my first surgery). I now have been in a wheelchair since the first of the year. My latest M.R.I.'s have showed that my spinal cord in my neck has sprung back to normal, and my swelling of my cord by my T-10 has gone down to normal, although I have some scar tissue that will be there forever. I am learning how to walk again, but I never knew how many functions of your body are tied to your spinal cord (damn near all of them, believe it or not). I am not trying to scare you, you probably just have a pinched nerve. What I am telling you, however, is that you need to go see a doctor and have it checked out. If you don't feel better after his or her diagnoses, try to get a FULL M.R.I. of your spine done just to be sure. The money might seem like a lot now, but if (God forbid) it is something more serious, you need to get it fixed sooner rather than later. If I would have sought out help earlier, I might not be in the situation that I am in now. You're probably O.K., just get it looked at before it gets any worse. Good luck.
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