Just started. Need some advice, reassurance

[Pjam]

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Thin Lizzy Whiskey in the Jar -

[Jax_Kovak]

A drink I use is ground whole lemon, water, and stevia sweetener to taste. The citrates should help eliminate the oxalates if that is the issue. Like Eve, I thought it could be a kidney stone or two, but you kind of shot down this idea by where your pain is. However, this lemonade could also help eliminate a kidney issue. However, it is beginning to sound like your pain is not from the soft tissues of your back, so may be neither oxalates nor stones. Is the pain on both sides? It is not at the spine?

Interesting - I might try the lemonade, but without any sweeteners I think. The pain is very low, practically on the top of my butt. I spoke to my doc about it and he seems to think that it could well be arthritis in a couple of little joints that are exactly where the pain is, which makes sense as I have arthritis in a couple of joints anyway, and crashed a few bikes at high speed when I was a kid.

I would suggest, Jax, a bit of jiggin n jivin’ to some (not so) old school music, lol.

A bit of green tea and turn the volume up.

I think Ill give that particular idea a miss, and if I’m listening to Sympathy for the Devil I might well go with the Motorhead version!

Thin Lizzy Whiskey in the Jar

Wow! Long time no hear!

[kib1]

This isn’t going to be very helpful but I developed exactly the pain you’re speaking of, or at least exactly the location, while I was fasting. When I stopped fasting the pain went away.

My perception of my pain was that it was spinal vertebrae grinding on a nerve, some sort of slipped disc / deteriorated bone issue. I have absolutely no idea why fasting or diet would cause this, but that was how I perceived the pain.

I broke my coccyx three times as a child. I don’t know if this has anything to do with anything. But I would not be surprised if I had done some permanent damage to the vertebrae slightly higher up, similar to your arthritis theory.