Do you have lower back pain issues?

[RRRIOT79]

Hi all,

I was just diagnosed with Crohn's. Earlier this year, there have been times where my lower back has been hurting and I usually attributed to pulling something. One day, I went to Bikram and well couldn't get out of my car after class - so I figured I jacked something up trying to keep up with the stretches....ha ha!

But now, I do mild stretches, for I run 4 days out of the week but have been experiencing lower back pain on my right and/or left side. Right now its my left, when I walk or bend at my waist to the sides. I usually roll out my back and glutes on a foam roller and feel a bit better but at the moment its kind of nagging.

Do any of you experience lower back pain while having an IBD? What have you done to alleviate it?

Thanks!

 

[boussole]

I have crohns for 5 years now and never had back pain except since January, when I started Prednisone.

 

[InstantCoffee]

Bloating in my gut often caused lower back pain.

Crohn's patients also have to be wary of a condition called ankylosing spondylitis which is linked to dysbiosis and the klebsiella bacteria that can grow in the gut.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jir/2013/872632/

 

[UnXmas]

Yes, but I have a fractured spine, which isn't IBD related. But I was also recently diagnosed with osteoarthritis, and when I posted about it on this forum there was some discussion about it being IBD related: http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?t=72468

As you can also gather from that thread, I'll be starting physiotherapy to try and help with it. At the moment codeine is my only painkiller, and amitriptyline to help me sleep when my back pain (and a dozen other things) makes me uncomfortable.

 

[RRRIOT79]

Thanks for the insight....I don't know if I have osteoarthritis, one think I know is that I do have arthritis in my knees :/ Read the thread you posted, thanks so much for that. I think I might have to read the bit a member posted about arthritis in the hips area. I would really hate to not be able to run long distances again.

Tho my back doesn't bother me too much while I'm running at the moment.

 

[Clash]

My son has juvenile spondyloarthropathy(JSpA) related to IBD. It runs independent of active CD although can flare at the same time. Spondyloarthropathy commonly affects the SI joints and creates a lower back pain. With JSPA or SpA if adulttthere tends to be stiffness in the joints in the morning and it tends to ease with use as opposed to stiffening with use. I hope I explained that well.

Anyway, I'll tag maya142 as she is a fountain of knowledge about this.

 

[Bunty]

I'm 62 and was diagnosed with UC a year ago, changed to crohns last week.
Twelve years ago I had both hips replaced, at the time it was suggested it was due to arthritis but in hindsight I believe it was osteoporosis related as the surgeon said the bones were very 'soft'. I broke my ankle just by going over on it four years ago which is what prompted a dexa scan, which revealed osteoporosis.
I get upper and lower back pain which comes and goes.
I don't know if any/all of this is connected to me having colitis or crohns but it certainly makes you think.
Bunty x

 

[Maya142]

My daughters and husband have Ankylosing Spondylitis. My younger daughter also had IBD. Lower back pain and stiffness are classic signs of AS or Spondyloarthritis, which are associated with IBD. Pain that gets better with movement and worse with inactivity (sitting/sleeping) is also a classic sign. It can also switch sides - from right to left, or both sides can hurt. My daughter's AS flares independently of her IBD and generally if the spine is involved, that is the case.

Spondylitis.com has some good information about the various kinds of spondyloarthritis.

It might be worth seeing a rheumatologist if you continue to have back pain.