lower back pain, and ab pain

[natalie2006]

does anyone else get lower back and lower ab pain with IC?

[tkdrew]

I do. I would love to know what causes it and/or can relieve it. Any suggestions would be great. :flower:

[natalie2006]

do you have IC? i DO AND from what i inderstand is when you have a flare up. A warm bath. or heating pad. light strechtes.

[tkdrew]

yeah, I've got IC. Sometimes my back hurts in my kidneys, mostly lower back though. A lot of times it feels like something is going to fall out. I have no uterus though.

[Mel53H]

Sometimes my lower back and rectum hurts along with the lower stomach. I almost feel like I am going to give birth.

[stacyY]

I also have the lower back and ab pain. Also My right side hurts horribly, on a daily basis. When i have a flare up its even worse. The doctor said to me that ther eis inflamation andit is stilulating the nerves in the bladder, which then makes the pain worse all over in that area.
For me also i take pain medication, mortin or vicodin if its really bad and use ice pack, the heat for me seems to make it worse. Also if i catch it right when i notice the pain seems to change, doing some streaches, some yoga moves, and also pilaties, seems to help and stop it from getting worse, But if i wait to long i jsut have to ride out the pain.

[natalie2006]

tkdrew You said you have no uterus right? So you have had a totel hystercodomy, right? So does not having a uterus bother your IC? and you on any hormones and do they bother your IC? Because there thinking about doing a total hystercodomy on me but I want to keep my overies.

[Sarojini]

I get lower back pain as well as pain in the behind -- many think this is caused by the "referred pain" phenomenon, in which one feels pain in an area distant from the site of actual injury. This is common in the pelvic area, since the nerves there are very close together and all come back to the spinal cord at approximately the same place. As a result, it is possible for pain signals to be "mixed up" either at the nerve level or at the spinal cord. This causes the brain to misinterpret the signal and tell you that your back hurts rather than your bladder.

It is also possible that inflammation and fluid are pressing on nerves other than those that come from your bladder, causing pain signals in other parts of the body.

Finally, pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) also goes along with IC in many cases (we unconsciously and continually tighten the pelvic floor in response to the need to urinate) -- because the muscle is tight and overtired, it can hurt much like, say, a muscle you overused in your leg during a long hike. Since the muscles stretch from front to back, this can cause the pain you are talking about as well.