Hi
I'm looking for some reassurance please, I have been experiencing constant pain/ache in the left side of my lower to middle back going round into my stomach. This has been like this for the last 2 & 1/2 months, I'm woke up everyday in the early hours between 2am & 6am with a sharp instnse pain in the same area that I can only describe as like a spasm as any slight movement, coughing, heavy breathing causes this pain to feel like a stabbing pain that quite literaly takes my breath away, this usually passes if i get up and go sit still for a few hours and then I am left with the usual constant pain/ache.
I have been to my GP twice already and he has sent me to out local A & E and requested that they investigate, as the first time round the A & E doctor laughed at me & said 'he didn't know why my GP sent me, as It was only a UTI & sent me home with anitbitoics. I went back a second time as per my GP and they did a CT scan as my GP thought it could be a kidney stone, but no stone was found. I have had two blood test's taken & a CT scan at A & E and was sent home after being told it's just a back ache!
In1997/1998 when I was 26 I had a Chrondosarcoma removed from my left femur and was discharged from the hospital only a few years ago. Becuase of this I can't get rid of this nagging doubt in my mind that I might have something serious going on in my back. As I was initially told that the pain in my leg back in 1997 was Sciatica, so I can't help but feel doubtful of the medical profession, especially as only last year my mother was told that she only had a blood clot in her kidney to then be told 7months later that it was a tumour before they removed her kidney! I am waiting to go back again & see my GP but i feel like a nuiscance and a timewaster.
I am living on painkillers, paying out for massages and I am just so tired from the constant broken sleep.
Please I am desperate to get rid of this constant pain/ache and get a full nights unbroken sleep any helpful advice is much appreciated.
13th Jan 2020 UPDATE
Thank you everyone for your replies and I hope that all of you are not suffering anymore pain and have found out the cause of your pain.
i just wanted to give an update on my circumstances and that I still haven't received a formal diagnosis but I have had numerous tests done and the doctors have been investigating me for a possible inflammatory Bowel disease such as Crohns Disease or Ulcerative Colitis as one of the tests revealed ulcers and my bloods showed that something is raised (sorry can't remember what though) and that there's inflammation plus that I was anemic and deficient in Iron. I do still have pain but it is not excruciating it's more uncomfortable and I am sleeping much better but unfortunately because of the impact of covid I am still waiting for a formal diagnosis. I wish you all well x
March 2021 UPDATE 2
I have now formally been diagnosed with Crohn's disease & fibromyalgia so at long last over 2 years later I know what is wrong with me ! I still have a constant pain and have been on multiple courses of steroids to try & put this flare up into remission but no such luck yet. The pain is manageable and is more of just a very uncomfortable pain and at least the intense cramping pain has gone (felt like a contraction in labour pain) I hope everyone that has commented has now had there problems resolved or at least treated, thank you for your comments and I wish you all well. Unfortunately my story continues as there's now a gynaecological issue going on to but thats another story.
