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Originally Posted by mlewis78
I am going to vent about back pain. I fell in February, backwards in my apartment. It wasn't so bad the first two weeks but then it got worse and seemed to spread from very low back on up. I saw a back doctor yesterday and got a prescription for PT and Diclofenac. The pill helped a lot last night but today not much at all, but I can't take Advil on top of that.
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I've started having a lot of pain the days after I swim. Swimming always did help my back in the past. There were no fractures. I can't remember if the doctor came up with anything specific to my problem and I have nothing in writing, not even in the portal. He says I do have scoliosis, but I was born with that and knew about it for years. No problems in my childhood except when I was in a car accident, age 17. It's only slight (I was told when I had my first chest x-ray). I asked the doctor if I have arthritis ("yes"). I think I have it all over. It has taken over my knees.
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Did they take X-rays or any other films or anything like that? Ultrasounds, etc.? Do you know if possibly you cracked something in your spine, or...?
What's a bit odd is the increasing pain over time, IF the fall was your typical strained a muscle, pulled something sort of fall. That's why I was wondering about possible cracks--those CAN become breaks.
Hitch