Cancer and Lower Back Pain

Lower Back Pain

While I still don't know if my lower back back is totally caused by old age and not a little by cancer treatments yet, a curious thing happened to me last night and this morning.  I have had a consistent pain across my lower back for the last several weeks.  It first started on the left side and my first thoughts was that I might have a kidney infection... then it moved to the middle of my lower back and I assumed it was caused by my bending over a saw horse several days cutting wood for my deck; then, it moved to my right side and I again thought I had a kidney infection, then it moved down into my right hip and the pain was so bad that they only way I cut reduce the pain enough so I could sleep last night was to lay on my right side, exactly on top of that part of the body from which the pain was emanating....   and that's the curiously odd part...  usually one would lay on the opposite side from which the pain had originated, not exactly where the pain was originating but that seemed to work for me.

My Visit To The Knoxville Orthopedic Clinic

I have chronic lower back pain that is typically associated with age which then in turn causes arthritis.  Cancer treatments can exacerbate this condition like it did with my thyroid; however, I have been experiencing lower back pain since 1990 or 30 years so it is highly unlikely that my cancer treatments impacted my current situation at all, or if it did, very little...  and, this will be one of the questions I ask when I meet with the doctor in 3 weeks.

And, while I did not ask him any direction causal questions, I am fairly confident that my problems are driven by old age and arthritis which is what a previous back doctor told me when my back hurt so back from bending over, I needed to go see a specialist who gave me a back brace.  About 10 years later, another bending over incident landed me in a specialist's office once again, who said, after looking at my X-rays that I had been rode hard and hung up wet.  It was this doctor who pointed to arthritis and said that I had huge bone spurs up and down my spinal column.  This doctor sent me to a physical therapist.