sleeping problems / back related

[robblok]

I have some problems sleeping if i stay too long on my back it hurts. It wakes me up, and i need to change sleeping positions. After I wake up and move around the pain is gone. Now to get to the bottom of this (been bothering me a long time). What kind of picture should i get taken to identify the problem. It might not be something that can be solved. But at least then I know what the problem. 

[NickJ]

Low Back? Try pelvic tilt exercises. Helped me.  Anyways.  AP,  lateral. And left and right oblique views

[robblok]

I am not so sure its exercise related.. I do a lot of core exercises. But i did notice my problems got less  when I did dead-lifts (havent done them for a while). But always willing to try exercise, but I still want to go to a hospital and take pictures. 

 

But would that be x-ray or something else ? Just want to get to the reason of the problem. 

 

And yes we are talking low back. 

[carlyai]

How old are you, and how long have you had the problem?
As a long time back sufferer, and the scars to prove it, I really wouldn't be worried (or get more worried), by having back xrays, scans etc.
Give it 3 months.
Hot water bottles, massage, and some 650 mg penadol will help.
There again this is just me and my experience. Many people will disagree and say have the scans.


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[robblok]

13 minutes ago, carlyai said:

How old are you, and how long have you had the problem?
As a long time back sufferer, and the scars to prove it, I really wouldn't be worried (or get more worried), by having back xrays, scans etc.
Give it 3 months.
Hot water bottles, massage, and some 650 mg penadol will help.
There again this is just me and my experience. Many people will disagree and say have the scans.


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This problem has been there long.. many months. But it has been gone for a while too after exercise and a better bed. However it came back. I just want to know what is wrong there. If something can be done then i might do it otherwise I just have to accept it and find a way to live with it. 

 

It only comes at night.. and the only problem I have from it is that i miss out on some sleep. 

Edited May 5, 2017 by robblok

[carlyai]

Ahhh, well, you need to get it checked out.
Really invest in a hot water bottle.
I use some other legal drugs, that I've just started using this year that help me with sleep from leg/back pain. But you're no where near that, I would suspect, but you can pm me in the future if you need the name. All legal.

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[robblok]

Right now I am just trying to find out what is wrong.. if its something that can be helped by certain exercises.. or that its a degraded disk or anything like that. I just thought that pictures (but I am not sure x-rays would suffice) would help me with that. That is why I am asking people here who might know about what kind of pics or that something else should be done. 

 

 

[Sheryl]

To be frank - this happens as you age. Your body becomes much, much less tolerant of being immobile even for comparatively short periods of time, and you have to change position more often at night to avoid soreness. Unless your need to change position occurs say every 1-2 hours,  I really would not do anything more than try to learn to shift position without fully waking up.

 

You also as you age become more likely to develop significant cramp or spasm if you do somehow manage to sleep in one position for a long time...effects which may last all of the following day or even longer.

 

It happens.

 

Even if you have some disk degeneration - which most people do after a certain age -- what you describe would not warrant any sort of treatment.

 

You could try 15 minutes of basic stretches before going to bed, but do not expect that to mean you'll not need to change position during the night, you will. But perhaps the intervals will lengthen.

 

 

[robblok]

10 hours ago, Sheryl said:

To be frank - this happens as you age. Your body becomes much, much less tolerant of being immobile even for comparatively short periods of time, and you have to change position more often at night to avoid soreness. Unless your need to change position occurs say every 1-2 hours,  I really would not do anything more than try to learn to shift position without fully waking up.

 

You also as you age become more likely to develop significant cramp or spasm if you do somehow manage to sleep in one position for a long time...effects which may last all of the following day or even longer.

 

It happens.

 

Even if you have some disk degeneration - which most people do after a certain age -- what you describe would not warrant any sort of treatment.

 

You could try 15 minutes of basic stretches before going to bed, but do not expect that to mean you'll not need to change position during the night, you will. But perhaps the intervals will lengthen.

 

 

Sheryl,

 

Ok I am not that old yet but if what your describing is normal then I won't worry too much about it. I just wanted to make sure that it was not something I could get help for. Problem is that I can only sleep on my back.. so moving positions means I wont really sleep for a while. 

[KittenKong]

I find that correct choice of mattress is vital to avoid back pain. Some mattresses cripple me and others (not necessarily more expensive) are fine. I currently use a fairly cheap (6000B) IKEA foam mattress on top of a much more expensive Sealy sprung mattress. The latter on its own was killing me, and it's annoying to know that I could have just skipped it and saved 20,000B or so.

 

I recently spent a month in about 25 different hotels and again I found that some were fine but some were terrible. Cost and quality seemed to have nothing to do with it. Of course cost and quality may have some long-term impact on durability and value but that's secondary to being free of pain.

[robblok]

26 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

I find that correct choice of mattress is vital to avoid back pain. Some mattresses cripple me and others (not necessarily more expensive) are fine. I currently use a fairly cheap (6000B) IKEA foam mattress on top of a much more expensive Sealy sprung mattress. The latter on its own was killing me, and it's annoying to know that I could have just skipped it and saved 20,000B or so.

 

I recently spent a month in about 25 different hotels and again I found that some were fine but some were terrible. Cost and quality seemed to have nothing to do with it. Of course cost and quality may have some long-term impact on durability and value but that's secondary to being free of pain.

using a natural latex mattress i had an other one before that made things a lot worse this one made things better but still the pain came back after a couple of months (but less). Actually not too much pain.. but enough to wake me up.. more irritated then in pain.

[MuntyC0re]

You need a mattress that suits your needs. Back sleepers need a nice mix between stiff coils and soft foam. Memory foam mattress, for instance, does not place nearly the same resistance on the joints as spring, air, and other materials that bounce back more rapidly. If your current mattress is still solid enough, you may only need a memory foam topper, I suggest to buy SlumberTop topper . PS I am a back sleeper too.