Severe back pain only when lying down

Hi, just gooled my symptons and this forum popped up, did anyone get a diagnosis or found anythin gthat helps?

 ive suffered with servere back pain when sleeping since i was around 15, (im 27 now) its gradually got worse the older ive got, i wake up with pain in my lower back but has started moving around my hips and into my stomach to the point where i cant move/sit up, once stood up it goes and im fine for the rest of the day, the only time ive never had it was while i was pregnant which i find odd, ive found placing a pillow under your lower back helps alot, still get twinges and a mild ache, i havent been to doctors with it because its really hard to discribe, its a not like 'normal pain' it hurts a hell of a lot but also feels likes  'strangular/tightening' i feel he wont know what im on about! as reading most your posts they seems really no point either,

tia

hi everyone, has anyone tried a chiropractor? i experienced the same problems as everyone else has. I had several sessions with chiropractor & my pain started disappearing. I also invested in a new mattress but I still have to prop up on pillows under my back & knees. I think I just cant lie flat when sleeping at night.

Hi all,

I had severe back pain for years and it was horrible. But mine was from sitting and standing. Lying down was the only thing which helped take the pain away!

I haven't had any back pain for around 10 years now and I put it down to 3 things:

1) Moving more - getting up every half hour or so and stretching and walking more

2) Doing more physical activity like swimming

3) The biggest thing which helped was a method called Egoscue. See if you have a local practitioner nearby.

Good luck and don't give up!

​T

hi rebecca i 2 have had this complaint for 5 years now had mri scan i do have a bulging disc and ware between 4and 5 discs the orthapeidic dept referred me back to doctors as they said my spinal problems were not the cause of the pain i am getting now so my doctor sent me for a abdominal ultra scan and discovered a small lesion on my kidney which my doctor says should not cause me any pain in the areas mentioned however i have been looking on the internet and found a condition called costochondritis this seems to fit my syptoms but have not been back to the doctors yet may be you can have a look at this and see if it fits your discription of pain only when i lay down regards alby

Hello from across the pond (NY). I have the exact symptoms described in the OP. My solution to about 6 months of nightly agony was to begin sleeping in a recliner chair. Once I made the switch, the improvement began that same night, but only after about a week did I start waking pain-free in the morning. I'm here making this reply because i'm in a hotel room, and I foolishly tried sleeping in the bed. After about 3 hours, my back was throbbing, and I've wised up and moved to a comfy chair with foot rest (with a pillow behind my lower back for support) my back is feeling better already. Good night!

Hi I'm a massage therapist in Canada. Yes we get back pain too unfortunately. I've been dealing with a painful radiating pain which goes from my mid back at about kidney level to very acute in my right hip but only when I lie down on my back or from riding around in the car. It's not instant but creeps up on me but the intensity of it is brutal if I stay in that position too long. My thinking as someone who deals with muscle issues is, if you don't suffer from disc problems in your spine, you have illiminated the possibility of pain from major organs through MRI scans, blood tests, etc, perhaps you have a badly strained muscle (or 2 or 3...), and it has contracted or tightened around a nerve, which radiates pain like an electric current throughout the pathway of this nerve. If you are fine sitting or standing it´s probably because this nerve is only being compressed by the weight of the body in the prone position. In my case the pain starts in the back just below my ribs but the killer pain I feel after lying on my back or side is in my hip sometimes as far as the front of my thigh. This leads me to conclude that my femoral nerve is being compressed somewhere along it´s route by a very tight muscle that won't release. Specific therapeudic massage to my lombar muscles, groin muscle, sacro-iliac muscles as well as visits to an osteopath for back manipulations have managed to "un-jam" the nerve but it's been 3 weeks and although I can sleep on my back now, it's still comes back after a week or so which means the muscle tension keeps coming back. Be patient, these things take time and if you're lucky might resolve itself. The body has an amazing capacity to heal itself of many problems. But after a few days if the pain does not subside and even gets more acute, Be pro-active. It´s your health and quality of life. Find a chiro or osteopath, therapeutic massage specialist, physio-therapist, but to avoid permanent nerve damage from years of compression, get on it! And nip this thing in the bud early if you can.

I couldn't agree more about being proactive about back problems  though try and avoid the quacks. In the 80s to jump the NHS queue i went private, all machines and chat.  Eventually got an NHS physiotherapist and a positive result also a full diagnosis of my spines condition, how i could help myself and a course of exercises to follow. But in time the exercises lapsed as did my lifestyle resulting in the trapped nerve from hell. Off work for months, job hanging by thread my consultant grabbed a hospital bed and put me on traction,needed valium the first few days.  It took four weeks, consultant said it would be the knife if i didn't buck up, so i did.  Later a scan showed me three nerves flattened in places where trapped,so  if you're doing skilled manual work never mind the machines, look after yourself.

hi rebecca just had the camera down into my stomach like you i was getting pain but only when lying down however the results of my test were that i have got barrets osophagous which is the lining of the osophagous has been damaged by acid coming up and causing back pain in between my shoulder blades under my armpits and the bottom part of my neck also they are investigating possible helicobactor pylori whis is a bacteria in my duodenum this causes me to have belly ache and pain under my ribs they have taken samples but have to wait 14days for results i hope this information helps you in some way good luck

Hi,

Has anyone come up with a suitable solution?

I am suffering the same ailments at night, the pain is random and can move from the middle of my chest to my shoulderblades and under my arms. When I get up, I struggle to get in/out of my car as lowering my head feels like I have an elastic band attached to the middle of my chest which is about to snap!

After an hour or so there is no pain or symptoms until around 4 in the morning.

I play tennis as a hobby 2-3 times a week and have not played for 3 weeks to see if any improvement, but pain is still there at night.

The doctor has put me on codeine/cocodomol which I take at night and has suggested I have Costochondritis which is inflammation of the ribcage cartilage. I have been to a physio for one session which appeared to help short term, but at £40 a session is a bit expensive to keep going back.

I am leaving it for a week or 2 and will return to exercising as there appears to be no effect by resting. My next step is a new mattress and perhaps more physio. Let me know if any more advice?

Thanks

Hi,Im Rich and I have had exactly the same problems everybody is talking about, I'll sleep for a couple hrs on my back or side, then when I wake up my whole back feels like somebody used it for a punching bag, my wife was puzzled cause after an hour of standing and moving around it completely went away, what it is, is muscles aren't releasing and relaxing when you fall a sleep, could be from past trauma,getting older a number of things,but I took Flexeril to relax my muscles about 1 to 2 hrs before bedtime and it has taken 90% of the pain away, good luck and let me know if any of you get better, we might have found a solution to this.

ive ha the same thing ,no pain standing but soon as i lay down i get excruciating pain, my doctor told me it is mt SI joint http://www.spine-health.com/video/sacroiliac-joint-dysfunction-video   watch the video might help sobody here

Ok so for years I have had terrible back pain. When I sleep on a couch it goes away. I don't have that option right now, so if you sit in a straight back chair and cross your legs like a man lean forward while you have your legs crossed this will release a nerve in your back and help you rest. You do this a lot and after while you won't have pain...but stop doing it the pain will return...drugs will not work and will cause other issues, also you may have bowel issues which is very painful also but my little stretch exercise along with you watching your weight will stop this pain....good luck and let me know when you start feeling better.