How to treat the back pain caused by an accident?
Patient: Hi I ve been going to my doctor for back pain since I was 16 after I had a ATV crash and got hit buy a truck on my left side they did ex rays and could not see nothing wrong my pain when away for a few years I was 18 and got a Job iron scraping I fell while carrying heavy weight on loose footing and hurt my back the same part I didn t go to see the doc that time I had 2 other injeries since all to my left side.for the past 4 years I ve been in bad pain I ve try therapy and injection s and it has done nothing for me but east my money and time. I got a MRI and they said I got birth defects putricals and dehydrated disck es but my pain should be mild. Now I m 26 I ve ate so much ib profin it fucked up my stomick no help for so long I turn to the street doctor stared buying pain killer s I got my life back for a while as fare as working and walking but my tolerens got to high so I was working to be pain free .now I m not taking pain killers I had to take methadone to get off the now I m not working I m losing every thing in cluding my wife and kid. I m not on drugs 4 the past 4 month I m still in pain in my back and mently and my left ball has Ben swelt up but anyway I feel like just being done with life now that all is lost and was wondering if it is common for people in cripiling pain to shoot them selves Doctor: Pain killer will provide only a symptomatic relief, it will not treat the condition. I have seen a lot of patients with low backache of long long duration.You may be having a disc prolapse or something like that.I would advise you to do back stretching exercises and physiotherapy. I have seen a lot of patients who are benefited by physiotherapy.Sometimes when pain is very high, you can take analgesic like Tab Dicloran but never forget to take Tab Rantac or tab Pan 40 with it, as all the pain killers causes gastritis. I hope physiotherapy and stretching exercises will help you.