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  • Physiotherapy is very useful for back pain. I went to doctors and chiropractors for years with minimal relief. I got relief from my chronic back pain through PT. If your doctors have never been able to find anything wrong with your back, physio is worth a try.
  • Back pain is frequently the result of inadequate muscle strength, shortened muscles, poor posture, being overweight, poor bending and lifting techniques. PT would probably help you,at least it's worth a try.
  • ano how u feel every time a go 2 eh docs about a sore belly ey jost give me pain killers or antibiotics n ey dont help n i hav neva been referred 2 eh hospital
  • I have very bad baack pain and I ended up having a spinal cord stimulator put in my back about 5 years ago and it has got me out of a wheel chair and walking again, Not pain free by any means but a great help.I hope this is something you can check into.
  • Good luck with that. It took me twenty years. Sometimes it is very hard to get a doctor to slow down and listen and if you have many or vague symptoms, it can be hard to keep them from going immediately to a "hypochondriac" diagnoses. Here is what I've found over the years. Like everyone else, doctors fall on a bell curve. A tiny percentage are so excellent that they are scary. A tiny percentage are so incompetent that they are scary. Most fall somewhere in the middle. As long as you don't get one on the bottom of the bell curve, the most important part is your working relationship with them. If you work well together and communicate well together, you will get good treatment. And since you spend 90% of your time with the nurse and 10% of your time with the doctor, the most important relationship is your relationship with the nurse. S/he is the one that takes your history and takes it to the doctor, so s/he is the one you most need to communicate with. Before you go to another doctor, read everything by Roizen and Oz and do it. They have detailed instructions in You: The Smart Patient for creating a health journal to take with you to the doctor. Every doctor that has seen mine has been impressed. It starts us off on a footing of "this patient is smart and cares about her health." When the nurse sees that, she is going to pay attention. She is also going to be grateful that she doesn't have to copy all that crap out by hand, because you have printed off a copy and brought it for her to stick in your file. You just saved her ten minutes of hand copying and she can now spend that time talking to you about your condition. Ask around to find who your friends and neighbors go to and whether they like them or not. But most importantly, if you have any friends who are doctors or nurses, ask who they go to. Those will be the most competent people. I would even go so far as to say I would favor the nurses opinion. They are the ones who work closely with doctors. Before you go, do some internet sleuthing. WebMD and the Mayo Clinic website are great resources. It helps if you know that your back pain matches the symptoms of a kidney infection, a slipped disc, fibromyalgia, sciatica or weak muscles before you go in. Insurance companies don't give doctors very much time with you. If you have eliminated some possibilities, first it shows that you have taken the time to know your body, which makes them take you seriously again, and it gooses them to consider all the possibilities.
  • I'm sorry you've had such a hard time. X-rays aren't the greatest test. They're only going to show what's going on with bones; much of back pain is either nerve or muscle related, which doesn't show up on x-ray. Even MRI sometimes won't find a cause of back pain. Often the best thing to do is start with physical therapy, and if that doesn't work, then proceed with imaging studies or invasive tests.

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