If you go to the laziness of the doctor or not, people begin to diagnose themselves.As a result, we think that the back hurts, and later it turns out with the doctor: the reason is still in the stomach.Or vice versa: we write down the pain in relation to problems with the intestine, although the question is on the contrary.We asked a neurologist which diseases can be "disguised" due to back pain.There were many options: it is better not to neglect the consultation with the specialist.
Back pain: What could be the reason
The pain in the back itself is divided into radicular (pinching or inflammation of the roots of the spinal cord), non-specific skeletal muscle pain and specifically with other specific problems.
The vertebrogenous lumbargia unresolved - this is a pain in the lower back associated with the spine.This means that a person has a pathological muscle tension in the lumbar region, while the spine has a defeat against lumbar or sacred roots.Most of the time this is a lead, ahead, hernia, ”explains the doctor. - - not specific pain is also on other degenerative changes, osteoarthritis, pain in the small joints of the spine, which cause pain in the lower back.
Back pain can also be due to the pathological muscle tone (myofascial Pain syndrome) is only muscle tension.
What pain can be confused
There are a number of other diseases that you can feel the pain in the back, similar to the above.However, the real reason will be completely different.Such cases include:
- the departure of metastases into the spine;
- Reflected pain in some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, intestine;
- Metabolic diseases (such as osteoporosis);
- Pathology of the female genital organs;
- Pyelonephritis (kidney infection);
- Problems related to bladder (cystitis).
Regardless of this, it is worth noting that back pain can be associated with lung pathology.Especially now because of pneumonia, ”emphasizes the specialist.
It seems that the back hurts, but it is actually easy.Therefore, advice from a doctor, primarily a neurologist, is important for checking the problem.
The neurologist checks whether your back really hurts or this symptom is still connected to other diseases.
How to determine what exactly hurts
As we have already noticed, it will not work anyway without a doctor's diagnosis.However, you can try to accept a kind of pain by nature - you have to listen to your feelings.
For example, when you lie in bed, pain, get up - it works.It is more of a myofascial pain syndrome.If the back hurts but "gives" in the leg, this is rather radicular pain.Does the pain in the back decrease during urination or menstruation or intensifies?Most of the time the bladder is the cause.If the pain is mainly felt after eating or emptying the intestine, the reason in the stomach intestine should probably be sought, says the neurologist.- Pain soldering more often indicates problems with the pancreas or a sequence of herpes.
The doctor determines the cause by examining the patient.Then he carries out various examinations if necessary.This includes radiography, tomography (or CT or MRI), electroneuromyography, if necessary, to determine the degree of damage to the roots of the spinal cord, ultrasound of the internal organs, ultrasound of genitals when we talk about a woman.
Of course, it is also worthwhile to carry out a blood test, ”adds the doctor. Depending on different indicators, you can see the image: If the liver enzymes are not in order, it is worth examining the liver if uric acid is not normal, this can be an indicator of inflammation.
The neurologist says that after his experience, people very often "draw with diagnostics" with diagnostics and consequently earn many pathologies that could be avoided with a timely examination.
If pain syndrome takes more than three days, this is an opportunity to go to the doctor.If the pain shines at the feet, you have to register all the more for a neurologist.Women with such simultaneous symptoms as a change in body temperature, pain during urination and menstruation should also visit gynecologists.There are patients who are written off and acute appendicitis for pain in the lower back area, although in this case there is no time to see how to seek medical help.