What to do if you back pain lower left? Clearly this question cannot be answered, if you don't pre-determine the nature of this pain, its causes. The nature of the pain can be sharp, contractions, or vice versa, the constant, monotonous, boring. In itself, pain is a negative, it brings the physical and moral suffering for the patient, impair quality of life.
Reason
But in some cases, this pain indicates that the advanced disease process, which can't be cured with a tablet analginum or grandma's herbs. Requires complex therapy, certain situations may require surgical intervention. Most often the pain is on the left side accompanied by such diseases and pathological processes, such as:
- Diseases of locomotor apparatus lesions of the spine (degenerative disc disease of the displacement of the intervertebral disc, spinal curvature, specific lesions of the spinal tumor, tb).
- Kidney disease stone formation in the renal pelvis
- Heart disease, angina, myocardial infarction
- Lungs, pleura – pleuropneumonia
- Myositis
- Diseases of the abdominal organs
- Pregnancy
Lose musculoskeletal
Back pain on the left side to be disturbed in diseases of the spine, this category of disease is the most common cause. The point is, that for certain reasons (excessive weight, weak immune system) can lead to metabolic diseases, degeneration, thinning of the intervertebral disc. This is the disc during the physical exertion (sudden movements, lifting weights) becomes displaced in one direction or another, in this case, the left. There is a degradation, and reactive inflammation of the left hind sensitive spinal nerves, there is a characteristic left lumbar pain.
Similarly, biased, inflamed the nerves, the curvature of the side (scoliosis) of the lumbar spine. The reason may be all of the same pain, constantly maintain the wrong posture. Tumour localization in the lower back, the left side increases the tumor destroyed everything, the muscles, the bones, the cartilage, and nerves. This condition is characterized by severe pain, which can be removed, only the narcotic analgesics.
Enough pain disturb the patient in the left lumbar myositis. Both the right and the lower left back big arrays muscles. Under the influence of harmful factors (over-cooling, the physical exertion) these muscles inflammation develops. This process gives me severe pain, aggravated by breathing, coughing, change of body position.
Diseases of the internal organs
The left lumbar region expected to be the left kidney. Therefore, the diseases of the organ, tend to have lower back pain on the left side. The pain can be sharp, sudden, like a renal colic, or, on the contrary, dull, aching, chronic kidney disease. Kidney pain syndrome such as those of the spine, without any special diagnostic tests, these States are easily disturbed, that the one disease after another. The hallmark of kidney disease is called sign pasternatskogo – increased pain when effleurage (not strong!) in the projection of kidneys. However, without laboratory examination of the urine, the accuracy is that the signal is weak.
Angina, myocardial infarction is often accompanied by pain behind the breastbone. But the defeat of the rear part of the heart muscle, the nature of the pain syndrome changes – my back hurts under left shoulder blade, giving the left hand, the lower part of the lower jaw. The pain is accompanied by the fear of death can't be so strong that removing it may require narcotic (of course, in the hospital).
Pneumonia (pneumonia) can affect the pleura of the lower classes. Inflamed pleural surfaces rubbing together during breathing, and gives you lumbar pain on one side or the other. The pain increases, the temperature increases, if the pleural cavity, the fluid builds up.
Various diseases of the abdominal cavity in addition to the abdominal pain can left side pain in the lower back. The acute pathology of immediate surgical intervention (inflammation of the peritoneum, intestinal obstruction), pain, severe accompanied by muscle tension of the abdominal wall. Long-term, slow processes, the liver, the pancreas, the stomach, the patient is worried about pain, chronic pain. Not strong, but because of the permanent nature of the patient's unpleasant experience.
The pregnancy, until now, the debate continues – what is this disease, or normal? One way or another, but the pregnancy leads to shift in the physiological processes of the body and the appearance of various pains, including the lower left back. In this case the pain is caused by several factors – increased intra-abdominal pressure, displacement of the internal organs and squeezing them pregnant uterus, further increasing the load on the spine weight of the fetus. If the pain increases, it should be noted, bleeding from the genital organs, it is likely that the developed life-threatening maternal or fetal complications. You should urgently in the ambulance to the hospital.
Diagnosis, treatment of pain in the left side of the waist in possession of several professionals – a doctor, neurologist, doctor, ultrasound, if necessary, a gynecologist, a surgeon, a trauma surgeon. First, it turns out the recipe and to the left the character of the pain is burning, aching, pulling, ad-won't give up other parts of the body. On the basis of specific symptoms during the examination may be suspected pathology of the spine, or internal organs.
But without laboratory tests is not enough. The hospital is in the general analysis of blood, urine. Recently become popular blood tests, the marker of certain diseases. Compulsory registration of the ecg, to confirm or exclude the disease. If necessary, a deeper diagnostic, x-ray, ultrasound, computed tomography.
Treatment left lumbar pain common recommendations won't. Currently, to combat this, other pain medication industry has developed an Arsenal of the proper medicines, pain relievers. But painkillers are not always able to solve the problem, since these funds eliminate the pain, but it does not eliminate its cause. In fact, the medical examination before anesthesia is undesirable, because it distorts the clinical picture, as well as harder to diagnose.
For this reason, caution should be used in the traditional medicines. They should only be used in combination with pharmaceutical means. The diseases of the spine, a great result considering, physiotherapy, therapeutic exercises, massage, manual therapy. But these methods of treatment is completely unacceptable, tuberculosis, tumors, pregnancy, some diseases of the skin pathology of the cardiovascular system. During the treatment, the left lumbar pain, like the other, needs strictly individual approach. Only a health care institution.