How to get rid of lower back pain fast :(

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Like an idiot I've been sitting on the dining room chair for weeks now working from home. My lower back has started to kill me. I've tried yoga, am taking nurofen but nothing's working. Sleeping is a nightmare at the moment. I really don't want to bother the doctors right now, is there anything anyone can suggest to help it get better? I have an office chair now but I can't really tell the difference yet since it already hurts

Hot water bottles and some voltarol gel! Even better if you can get someone to rub it in!

Hot water bottle should help. I find it better than painkillers.

As above but also stretches/pilates. Heat patches

A decent home massage, it was a game changer for me getting the tight muscles to relax.

Stretches twice a day 10 minutes at a time. massages and just move more. Hours walking a day and 5 minutes every hour.

Look on the internet for exercises. And do them regularly.

Invert. Look up Mackenzie method. But go gently.

Alternate heat and ice
Walk. It's important to keep active
Heat patches and creams
Hot baths
Tens machine can be very effective
Painkillers
Sleep with a slim pillow between your knees

Downward dog

Thank you everyone. I've been using Deep Heat and while it feels good it doesn't last. I'll be getting some Voltarol tomorrow. I am leaning on a hot water bottle in bed and it feels amazing at the moment! I've not been very active lately so that's probably why it's worse than it would otherwise have been!

The thing that works for me is running. It seems to unlock everything,

Do some yoga poses and have a hot bath.

I find a topical gel better for pain relief when it’s muscular.
But yeah, agree with PP that movement and flexion based stretches are what help me most.

If you have trouble sleeping because of the pain, lying on your side with your legs bent should lessen it.
It sounds like you have had it for a while and you "don't want to bother the doctor" (although I think you should: lasting pain is very wearing), try a chiropractor. You'll have to pay, but they can do magic quite quickly.

Get well soon x

I have been seeing a physio for my lower back pain since the spring. It’s deffo worth getting a professional opinion to prevent it getting worse before it gets better.

Daytime; a yoga ball to sit on, 5 minute stunts lying on your back on a carpet, a wheatbag shoved down your trousers.

At night: (a bit more controversial) an hour before bedtime, 2 Nurofen + and one chlorphenamine,, Solpadine max dissolved right as you get into bed. Wheat bad Nader your lower back. You’ll sleep like a baby!

Private physio and do the exercises.

Heat wraps
Naproxen
Pilates
(I badly wedged a vertebrae a few years ago and have a cpl of bulgy discs L4/5. Back in April after 3/4 weeks on a dining rm chair I developed very severe nerve pain - one sides/hip, buttock, etc.)

Spoke to Dr because I was nervous about spinal cord due to fracture. She was convinced it was neuropathic pain and prescribed 10mg Amitryptiline and two 10 min gentle walks each day (bugger Boris and lockdown rules!).

All gone in 48 hrs. And the little blue pills buy me at least 6.5 hours of good sleep.

Swimming (when the pools open again).

Jacuzzi/hot tub.

This is a reoccurring issue for me every time I menstruate 😔 it's bloody ain't for a week before and after my period

The only thing that helps is using a pillow between the legs/knees in bed and the doing the Five Tibetan Rites

(kinda like yoga but it actually helps and strengthens your core muscles)

Ultimately you're gonna have to get a suitable chair for working

Kneeling chairs are the best IMO

*agony

Bloody agony i say

Chiropractor. I couldn’t walk this time last week without nearly crying in pain.. two sessions and I am almost pain free. Just needed a good cracking

For future prevention a firm pilates roller is a great investment.

If you can afford it a chiropractor.