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What Causes Low Back Pain Radiating To Left Hip And Leg?

I recently went to the er 2 days in a row due to low back pain that radiated into my left hip, and down my leg into my knee and foot. The pain was radiating my whole left side was swolen. i also had and still have pain and swelling in my shoulder and elbow as well. One ER doc said it was siatica, and the other said all he seen on the hip xray was little spots from my pain management injections that i have never recieved! When i told him that I had not recieved injections he just got rude and said yea ok??? Ive had the pain for sometime now, and it does get more severe durring the week of mother nature. Where the left hip socket is located the is an indention forming and you can feel little bumps under the skin, and is even more painful to the touch. He had alot of fun poking on it and making me cry and squirm saying that it was scar tissue from cutting myself there, WHICH I KNOW I HAVENT DONE. I take hydrocodone 10/325 daily and i explained to him that i had plenty, didnt want his pain meds that my mission was to find the underlying cause so that i wouldnt have the pain. The hydro..... takes the edge of but i am still experiencing a great deal of pain. My husband warned me not to go that i would be mocked and treated like a pain med seeker, but I would like to think that a patient can have pain and really want/need a diagnoses rather than the need to mask the pain. Both ER docs gave me toradol which made things alot worse in the long run on my stomach and intestines as I have a pretty harsh case of crohns disease and have had a bowel resection. My obgyn made some since he said it appeared to be osteo setting in. They made a referral to a pain mang dr and a rhumatologist but neither can see me untill the end of july. I have a 1 and 2 yr old need help alot sooner than July.......Please any suggestions i am desperate
Mon, 23 Feb 2015
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Thank you for the question.I would suggest you see a physical therapist in meantime as you wait for pain/rheumatologist docs.i would recommend lumbar traction for 10 days, massage with Kati basti(an ayurvedic oil)applied for 30 minutes after heating/alternatively Relaxyl gel for local application after hot fomentation. Avoid lifting and bending, lie in most comfortable posture on firm matress.Take neurobion forte tab once daily for 3 weeks and a short course of Voveran Sr 100mg once a day for 7 days
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What Causes Low Back Pain Radiating To Left Hip And Leg?

Thank you for the question.I would suggest you see a physical therapist in meantime as you wait for pain/rheumatologist docs.i would recommend lumbar traction for 10 days, massage with Kati basti(an ayurvedic oil)applied for 30 minutes after heating/alternatively Relaxyl gel for local application after hot fomentation. Avoid lifting and bending, lie in most comfortable posture on firm matress.Take neurobion forte tab once daily for 3 weeks and a short course of Voveran Sr 100mg once a day for 7 days