PAIN IN BOTH ELBOWS ( ANY IDEAS WHY?) have had chronic back pain for 9 years

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:confused:can you help, I NOW HAVE PAIN IN BOTH ELBOWS ( ANY IDEAS WHY?) no swelling no rash no redness just severe pain in the joint on the top, (not on the inside of the elbow)this is after years of back problems and in chronic pain, taking much medication including morphine durogesic dtrans patches, fentanel lozenges, morphine sulphate etc
disc operated on in 1999, tail end of coccyx removed in 2007, under pain management clinic at hospital,

I had an operation because of discs bulging on L4/L5 L5/S1 and pressing in the sciatic nerve loss of bowel and bladder control lead to emergency discectomy. since than i have chronic pain in my back and bone spurs growing along the spine. last year i needed a op on my coccyx as i couldn't sit down. Most of my days i was bed ridden. i am on so many pain killers i rattle. Being doped up relieves my pain but my quality of life has gone. (I now have a Stomach ulcer caused by yrs of using declofenic, but no anti acid tablets we prescribed.)

To sleep i take muscle relaxing drugs and sleeping tablets, and quinine. I suffer with sciatica and have awful cramps. First thing in the morning i am pinned to my bed with my back seized and find it difficult to breath (with my chest raising up and down). Cant move without oral morphine, but now I am finding it unbearable to hold the bottle. The pain in my elbows and hanRAB is always worse in the mornings along with my back as I have stiffened up over night. I have tried many treatments over the past 5 yrs on my back. Epidural injections, facet joint injections, gangleon block acupuncture physio etc all giving me little or no relief. I
 
I had to look & see where you are from because I could have sworn this post was written by my mother. Most of the women in my family suffer from chronic back pain & fibromyalgia. My Mother seems to have gotten a bigger dose of the fibromyalgia & is or has been on all of the meRAB you are taking. She too, wakes up crying in the am because she has spasms & cramps in her feet legs hanRAB back, etc. Mornings are the worst.
My first thought was your elbows may be taking alot of strain from trying to support your body when you are having back pain...I always hold myself up with my arms when my back flares up...but it really sounRAB like you may have a chronic pain condition such as fibromyalgia, or another form of arthritis. Have you seen a rheumotoligist?
 
Just another thought it could be ulnar neuropathy where the nerve is entrapped in the elbow. I have this in both of my elbows and it causes severe pain even in the lower arm. I had surgery on my right one last year and they move the nerve from under the elbow to above but I have to admit I still have a lot of pain and sometimes it feels like a knife is being stuck in the middle of my arm and I will have bad spasms. I don't think I will have the left elbow done. Just a suggestion.

Linda
 
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