Back Pain

[Meg888]

Hi. I've been experiencing some back pain on the right part of my back in the middle. It's not coming from my spine or the usual areas. It doesn't feel like muscle/joint pain it actually feels like it could be the back of my lung? It doesn't hurt to touch, and it's just a dull painful ache. It came on suddenly last week and nearly floored me at first, taking my breath away but then after a couple of days it just stopped. Then it came back late last night when I was in bed, and I could not get comfortable for it, nothing seemed to ease it, and I managed little sleep. When I got up this morn, it was very painful, so much that it felt a task just to speak. I'm not breathless with it, or feverish and other than that I'm generally fit and well. If I take painkillers, it takes the edge off, but it does not remove the pain altogether. I'm a 43yr old woman, and shamefully yes I'm a smoker, despite many attempts at giving up (last one failed just last week!)

[boxtops]

Sounds like a pulled muscle, but I'd go to the GP, just to be on the safe side. Don't ignore it.

[Eve]

You can get some referred pain in your back from some conditions. I remember having horrible burning pain which spread through to my back when I had gallstones

Have you any other symptoms you might not associate with back pain?

[woofgang]

Why don't you just go to the doc? If its painful enough to floor you or to stop speech or make speech an effort, it needs a doctor.

[Sqad]

Get an appt. to see your GP, as a chest X-Ray would seem advisable. although I do agree that it does sound muscular.

[Meg888]

Hi Thanks for replies, yes you's are right I prob just do need a doc - I am terrible though, have such a hectic work/school schedule I never seem to have time. Eve, I don' have any other symptoms whatsoever, I'm really quite well though I'm not very fit - but on fitness thing now, diet, excersise (again) then to give up smoking (again)!

[woofgang]

well when you end up flat on your back in bed or sat in A and E on a saturday night when its full of drunks and junkies, will you have time then?