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How To Relieve Severe Back Pain Which Is Causing Difficulty In Breathing?
My husband is a truck driver and drives about 400 miles a night. He used to be over the road but now comes home every night. He has only been driving truck for a little over 2 years and before that he was a water treatment specialist. This year he got sick a couple times and although he feels better his back is hurting him to the point of causing him to catch his breath. He has no other symptoms but he does drink energy drinks at work. The pain is to the right of his spine in the lower thoracic/ upper lumbar area. It seems too close to the spine to be kidney and as I said no other symptoms. This has been going on for about 2 weeks and seems to be getting worse. He is allergic to aleve which makes me nervous about giving him other NSAIDs. Aleve makes his face swell. Soaking in super hot water seems to help temporarily. I also did some tennis ball massage on what felt like a trigger point and that helped for a couple days but now he seems to be worse and I am afraid to touch him. He is a veteran and his next VA appointment is in June but to get in before that is impossible.
Tue, 4 Mar 2014
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Joint Replacement, Dr. Mukesh Chugh's Response
hi thanks for writing to HCM i have gone through your query,keeping in mind his suffering my advice would be to have xray dorsolumbar spine along with rotine blood test for HB,TLC,DLC,ESR and sugar. if everything comes normal then my advice would be following- 1.diet rich in calcium and vitamin D and sun bath 2.pain killer like ibuprofen and cyclobenzapine 3.avoid constant sitting take care and wish him good health
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How To Relieve Severe Back Pain Which Is Causing Difficulty In Breathing?
hi thanks for writing to HCM i have gone through your query,keeping in mind his suffering my advice would be to have xray dorsolumbar spine along with rotine blood test for HB,TLC,DLC,ESR and sugar. if everything comes normal then my advice would be following- 1.diet rich in calcium and vitamin D and sun bath 2.pain killer like ibuprofen and cyclobenzapine 3.avoid constant sitting take care and wish him good health