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back problem causing abd/pelvic painFrom: Christine (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:49:26 -0500 (CDT)
I am curious if it is common for a back problem to cause mostly abdominal or pelvic pain? I began having abdominal pain (lower right quadrant) 2 years ago. Every doctor I saw (gyn, GI, internal med etc) asked me about my back but I insisted I had a great back. I had no back pain at that time, but I did have some leg pain, which I had had years before as well. Three ultrasounds were negative, as was a colonoscopy . I then had two laparoscopies, 6 months apart. At the first lap my gyn lysed only a small bowel adhesion but when the abdominal/pelvic pain returned 3 months later a general surgeon repeated the lap and lysed the adhesions around my sigmoid colon. The first adhesion area had not reoccurred. In March I started a step aerobics program and since then the pain has increased significantly. I also now have back pain (new) and leg pain (similar to what I've had in the past) I'm having an MRI of my lumbar-sacral spine next week. I'm wondering if this type of presentation is unusual. If the problem turns out to have been my back all along, why did the abdominal pain disappear after both laps, only to return 3-4 months later each time? Another doctor I have seen (colo-rectal) says that the relief of pain might have been coincidental. When the abdominal pain returned after the first lap, it felt exactly like it did before the first lap, so I was surprised when they told me the first adhesion area had not reoccurred. Thank you, Chris
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