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Low back pain, made worse by bowel movement
Low back pain, made worse by bowel movement
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 24-year old female asked:
Have chronic low back pain. No diagnosis. Hurts worse when gassy or have bowel movement. It's not colon issues. What else could this be?
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A 44-year old asked:
What causes low back pain until there is a normal bowel movement?
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A 45-year old female asked:
If my ongoing left sided abdominal, side, and back pain gets worse after a bowel movement is that a problem in the colon?
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A 55-year old female asked:
I have severe pain in my lower left abdomen &lower left back. I think its the same pain. Seems worseafter bowel movement & back pain worse at night?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Since this morning having intermittent knife like stomach pains radiating to lower back and very low appetite. What to do? No bowel movement in 24 hrs
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A 25-year old male asked:
Hello, recently messed up my back lifting weights. History of sciatica. Can't urinate properly.Havent had a bowel movement in two week. Numbness down left and right leg. Left leg worse. Can't feel pain. Went to ER was given prednisone. Help!!!!
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A 39-year old female asked:
Feel sick after eating, pain lower right hand side where appendix would be, pain getting worse also goes to my back have trouble bowel movement?
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A 35-year old female asked:
What can cause sudden severe low back pain followed by an urgent bowel movement.Pain eased slightly after not constipated, pain in R hip and thigh.
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A 31-year old female asked:
Low back pain, sacrum area. And urge to have a bowel movement, but with constipation, also nausea and pain in pelvis. ?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Ache in lower right back, abdomen & groin. I had good bowel movement felt tiny bit better but not completely. I took a muscle relaxant. Now pain is kind of getting worse going in rectum and whole stomach I feel like I need to pass gas I guess.Serious?
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A member asked:
36 weeks with low right side back pain & more bowel movements is thi beginning of labor?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Low right back pain with thin bowel movements?
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A 38-year old female asked:
I have low and middle back pain in the morning followed by and relieved by multiple (sometimes as many as 5) bowel movements. ?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Severe abdominal and lower back pain after bowel movements. It was a dull ache beforehand but after going it's gotten gradually worse.
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A 61-year old female asked:
I have lower back pain associated with sluggish bowel movements this pain is radiating to my right hip and groin. Worse in morning?
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A 37-year old male asked:
I have rather large bowel movements sometimes it's from constipation, but in general I just go rather large. would this have a connection to very low back pain such as the L5-S1 area. Possibly exacerbating an existing condition?
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A 31-year old male asked:
9 months of tingling legs, aching back, headaches, strange bowel movements, fever, nausea, generally feeling unwell, intermittent attacks where worse?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Why do I have yellow mucus in my bowel movements followed by back pain side pain on the right and sharp pains on the right side of my lower right abdomen? Also bloating Symptoms got worse 5 days prior to periodPain in right ovary that alternate left?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Is it safe to take miralax (polyethylene glycol) to maintain regular bowel movements? Fiber laxatives back me up worse unless i drink excessive amounts of water
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A 30-year old female asked:
I have mid and low back pain. Can that reflect along front right side of abdomen. Especially when I twist and bend its sharp twinge in that movement ?
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A 38-year old female asked about a 40-year old male:
A shooting pain when taking a deep breath in his back..Lower left side .No injury, doesn't hurt or change with movement. No fever or bowel changes :)?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Feeling like something is crawling inside my anus (along with burning, worse at night, can't sleep), accompanied with occasional intestinal pains and loose bowel movement?
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A 44-year old female asked:
I have used suppositories but still haven't had a bowel movement .This isn't my normal constipation ,I'm having pain in left lower back what is this?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Anytime i eat spicy food or even mildly spicy food soon after I have severe back pain until i make a bowel movement, and that doesn't always cure it.
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A 16-year old female asked:
I have back pain in the bottom and top of my back and get bad pains in my stomach. I haven't had a bowel movement for 5 days either. Extremely painful?
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A 24-year old asked:
I had a sigmoidoscopy 3 days ago & haven't had a bowel movement since 4 days ago. Is this normal? I started back on lactulose & fybogel.
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A 21-year old male asked:
If I have a bowel movement, but i can't push because i recently had a back surgery and it hurts, will laxatives help ease the pain? Is there a different way to do it?
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A 39-year old female asked:
I'm having bad pains in back nut it seams that they come and go when I don't pass a bowel movement. What could I do or should do?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Is having bowel movement problems an underlying symptom of something worse like leukemia
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A female asked:
I have no bowel movement and my lower back hurts severely what do I have to do?
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