Since January this year I've had really bad lower back pain, constantly.
I started noticing that every morning after sleeping & lying still for the night, my lower back right at my tail bone would be incredibly stiff and painful but would gradually loosen up after an hour or two of moving around in the morning. The pain would remain throughout the day but at a tolerable level and would flare back up at night/in the morning.
I phoned the GP after it went on for a couple of months and they said it sounds like sciatica and to keep moving as much as possible and that it'll go away on its own.
It's been another 4 months now and the pain has only gotten worse. It's now at a point where I am in severe pain all day long, not just the night times and mornings. It feels like a constant ache/intense pain in my tail bone area. It keeps me awake at night because it is so painful and there is no way to lie that relieves it.
I am on 60mg of amitriptyline for migraines and I'm now finding that the pain is so severe it wakes me from the deep sleep amitriptyline puts me in.
I'm 28 so feel too young to have this sort of back pain. Has anyone else experienced this? Are there exercises I can do to help it? Not that I can even imagine how I would do any exercises at the moment as just breathing seems to make my back hurt. I even struggle to go to the toilet as the pain is so great I can't relax.
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