Any suggestions on what can help ease backache?

[Kasterborous]

My lower back has been a bit achy for the last few days. Is there anything anyone can recommended to help ease it?

This is some of the things I do when I get a bad back

Ibruprofen
Massage
Warm baths/heat
Gentle stretching

but above all keep moving.

Thanks will try the above. Apart from ibuprofen because I'm allergic to it.

Give that a miss then! I hope you feel more comfortable soon

My lower back has been plaguing me for days. Today I've done a lot of stretching, where I squat in front of the counter, hold onto the counter with both hands and let my weight fall backwards. I kind of let my back round out, as if there were a string attached to the center of my back, pulling me. I don't know if that makes sense, I only discovered what a difficult to explain stretch it is when I tried to explain it. I had it demonstrated to me, that's much easier

I am now parked in my most comfortable chair with the heating pad at my back. For a while, anyway. It feels soooo good.

Agree with all above, and also: if it aches when you go to bed, I have found lying with a pillow or cushion underneath helps. Depending on how bad it is, I will lie on the pillow with one end stopping at the end of the small of my back or I'll double it up and put it under the small of my back. I naturally roll off of this in my sleep and feel fine but for getting to sleep it has helped a lot. Also a V pillow can be really good for support/comfort with back pain, both in bed and also on a chair.

I've used heat pads with success (the disposable ones you can get in places like Boots, they stick on and last up to 6 or 12 hours - can't remember how long exactly).

I used to lie on my front and place a hot water bottle on my lower back and stay there for an hour.

Can I just ask about the Ibuprofen allergy ? I had a sort of weird panic attack feeling when I took them a few months back. I then tried them again and had an awful reaction, shaking, hands and feet went numb, hyper ventilating and a scary sort of hot feeling rising up my chest and throat. It has the symptoms of a panic attack, but Ive never had them, and it only happens if I take Ibuprofen. is that your experience?

No ibuprofen don't do that to me. They make my face swell up like a balloon and my eyes get so swollen I have trouble opening them.

Your reaction to them sounds very unpleasant too.

It was really scary, I'm not taking them ever again because looking back, the reaction has been worse act time

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Rafaella
Sounds similar to the "cat stretch", but done on all fours - knees and hands. Back arches with tummy pulled in then undulate down from the small of the back upwards into a reverse - back concave, bum up and head up. That is the simple version!

I also do a slow progressive stretch of the spine while standing, starting with the neck pulled down - hands behind the head- then down the spine to the small of the back. Then reverse slowly straightening as you.

Hip tilts can help in which you gently and slowly rock your pelvis backwards as far as you can then forwards. Keep knees flexed slightly and feet apart.

as you go