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| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
EDIT - I shouldn't read stuff when I've just got up. Read it again and saw you mentioned it is actually the base of your spine. Yea, go get it looked at. Not something you want to just leave. |
It's really low on my back, below the waist, right around my tailbone. Usually when I get lower back soreness it's higher up and obviously muscular, goes away after a few days. This is a more electric pain that doesn't feel particularly muscular. The pain is spread quite generally across that area.
As I said, I was working a physical manual labour job and I was getting a bit of soreness in the lower back and traps as standard, but that's just the usual tiredness from working physically for eight hours. Then I got the flu, and I was working through it. I got really bad muscular aches, right across my back up to the lats and traps, so I was hunched over with muscle pain a lot of the time. That all went away when the flu died down, but the last thing to go was this pain at the bottom of my back. I've still got a bad cough lingering from the flu, and for a couple of weeks every cough really jolted my back and caused pain.
That pain had died down in the last week or so, and today I thought I'd be okay to start the weights again. However, I must have done something strenuous recently because I've had a mysterious tight hamstring in my left leg and my back was feeling tender again. After a bit of discomfort moving my weights back in the basement it came to picking up the 50kg barbell. This is the lowest weight that ever goes on the barbell - usually I pick it up with no real difficulty, but today it was very painful. I shouldn't have really bothered moving it, but I said " it" and picked it up anyway, which was pretty painful. Now my back has regressed back to the levels of pain I was in a week or two ago.
The pain isn't severe - I'm having no trouble sleeping - and there was no moment at work when I felt I damaged it. I was working in a near-hallucinatory state of illness though, and I was in so much pain generally it's possible I was doing damage to my back without realising it. |
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