How does a woman know if her back pain is serious?
Dr. Ramin Raiszadeh: The way you know you have serious back pain is the currency of it, how long has it being going on. So, most of the time something, if it’s acute, one day, two days that’s not something to worry about. When you know that something is not right and every woman and man should know their baseline. Baseline for you could be zero out of ten pain.
But you know something is not right, something is a problem, something is more serious when the pain doesn’t abate and resolve on its own. If you will give it time, if you are at night time, at night time it wakes you up at night, when you are having a fever, if you are having a lot of chills, if you have associated leg pain with it, if you have associated pain that doesn’t resolve with sitting, doesn’t resolve with standing, you can’t find a comfortable position, the main issue with this is you got to understand your own baseline level.
So if you are baseline, you have very little pain and all of a sudden six months later you have a lot of pain and it’s not going away with anti-inflammatory medicine, just regular medicine that you would take to resolve the pain, that’s something that could indicate something more serious.
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