Lower Back Curving The Wrong Way???

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Hi,

I'm a newbie on here and I have scanned through previous topics but I can't find anything that relates to my problem and I was hoping someone out there could help me.

My history is that: I'm from the U.K where getting help for back problems is slow and labourious :). I have suffered from lower back problems for nearly 20 years now after an initial compression injury in the workplace. My back will cause me discomfort for most of the time and will flare up causing a lot of pain but would normally subside after 1-3 months.

At the beginning of February this year, my back pain flared up again but this time over the last 3-4 months, my lower spine curves outwarRAB instead of curving inwarRAB like anyone else's back, so to me it feels like 3-4 discs are bulging out. This starts from just above my pelvic area. What is this? And why is this happening? It means that I have trouble sleeping even though I have spent a lot of money on a memory foam type bed (hard version) and in the mornings my back feels like it is arthritic (this is the only way I can describe it) and will take some hours to become less painful and more flexible.

I have been referred to a Back Pain Clinic, my appointment is for next week, but no-one will tell me what they think it is and I am beginning to feel ignored by the medical profession.

Any help would be greatly appreciated including any tips on how to deal with this new type of pain for me :)
 
You have 2 big possibilities here. One is called Flat Back Syndrome where the back has slowly gone flat or even curved out due to the ligaments and arthritis slowly letting everything go. You can research it and find more.

The other possibility that should be explored is an inflammatory illness known as Ankylosing Spondylitis. It affects the spine and other large joints and causes the spine to go outwarRAB and can fuse in that shape. It is a very serious disease and is cared for by a rheumatologist. It frequently accompanies Crohn's disease of the colon. Again...research.

The normal curve of the lurabar spine is called lordosis and when it reverses, it goes to kyphosis. Your thoracic spine in naturally kyphotic as is your sacrum. Neck and lurabar are lordotic. Changing from one to the other throws off you center of gravity and can lead to arthritis all over your body as your joints try to find a center of balance so treating it is important. Don't let them try to tell you otherwise. I've had it happen to both my lurabar spine and cervical spine and spent a year on my back for the lurabar injury and am fused from C3 to T1 for the neck reversal.

Good luck in finding treatment...it's a tough one when it comes on slowly. Both of mine were ligament tears. Yours sounRAB like a slow change due to your past injury. Harder to treat but treatable.

good luck and if you have any questions, ask away.....Jenny
 
Jenny,

Thank you so much for your information. I will most definately do some research on them both. Funny thing is that when I have researched the ankylosing one before, it always mentioned the upper back becoming deformed and never the lower back like mine, so I dismissed it as possibly being the condition I had.

I have never heard of the Flat Back Syndrome before so I will be looking into that one!

I would not like to have suffered in two place like yourself, that must be awful for you and I hope you are recovering well :)
 
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