Are You Having Chronic Back Pain?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

The truth is that many people are suffering from chronic pain, that is, pain that is present more than it is gone.

If you notice that you have back pain or neck pain most days or that you have had at least a dull form of the pain for more than a week, you will want to talk with your doctor about getting a specific diagnosis for your back pain.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Did the pain suddenly begin?
• Have I been diagnosed with back pain before?
• Is this a worsening of a problem I already have?
• Have I had other treatments for my back pain without relief?

There are some conditions that might require surgical intervention or that may require a lifelong regimen of pain medications in order to control pain that’s so omnipresent.

If you’ve only been dealing with back pain for the past few weeks without any previous history of troubles; that’s not considered to be a chronic condition in the eyes of most doctors.

But if this back pain has been something that’s been happening more than it hasn’t over the last month, you have every reason to head to your doctor for help.

Start A Journal

If you find you are having a hard time describing your pain to a doctor, it can help to keep a journal of your back troubles.

A simple spiral bound notebook is fine, but a page should be created for each day to help you keep track of your pain experience.

You might want to include:

• The date
• The time of the back pain
• Day in menstrual cycle – for women
• Intensity of pain on scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst pain
• Location of the pain
• Description of the pain
• What remedies you’ve tried
• What remedies worked
• What activity you were doing
• What seemed to exacerbate the pain
• What seemed to lessen the pain
• Where you were when the pain happened

By keeping this detailed journal, you and your doctor will be able to determine the cause of your particular case of back pain and then advise of treatments that will be effective.

You might also want to make notes in your journal about the various stressful things that were going on in your life at the same time in case your back pain is related to tension and not to a specific injury.

It will help if you keep this journal for at least a month to see if there are any connections to the potential causes of the back pain. Be sure to bring this journal to your doctor’s appointment to show them what your experience has been.

Even as you begin treatment, you will want to maintain this journal as it will help you further diagnose your pain and find treatments that are effective for you to use.

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