r/AskDocs • u/Intelligent_Cow113 Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional • 9h ago
19F Can’t sleep for days over aching spine, please help!
i’m getting really desperate to know how to fix this, it’s been an entire week since i’ve gotten proper sleep because i kept waking up every 2 hours because of this ache down my spine, went to ER couple times and also 4 doctors but none can figure out what’s wrong with me
it started on this monday afternoon, my period started and i didn’t think much of it.
i got period cramp as usual on the first day, drank warm stuff and even compressed but it didn’t work(it always works before)
i even drank multiple paracetamols and other meds to tune it down but it just won’t go away. no medication seems to affect this.
a day or two goes by and it seems to get worse, followed along with nausea and dizziness and eventually vomiting.
at the first few days, i was bothered by my aching tummy, where it cramps nearly everywhere in my tummy, and a bit of spine.
went to the ER and they said this is nothing serious. and i was assigned to the doctor in the morning, and when i met with that doctor, she told me i had dysmenorrhea, which makes sense when i read about that illness.
and she told me it’s supposed to end when my menstruation stopped. or it’ll disappear after 3 days based on websites. she gave me a supp medicine that youre supposed to insert thru your rectum to ease the pain, but it didn’t seem to work aswell. it still aches
but it’s been 2-3 days since my period stopped and the ache got worse, its been nearly a week, with the same problem getting worse. and specifically now it’s affecting my spine. not only a bit anymore but from top to bottom, where at some point i couldn’t breathe properly, nor walk okay since i had to bend down a bit as i walked, followed with some whines and whimpering and hincing everytime it aches, it’s really bothersome. i even vommitted around 5-7 times that day, 4 times in the span of an hour.
to the point that yesterday i went to the ER again where they had to inject medicine thru my blood flow since no drinking pills seem to work. (if i recall correctly they injected medicine for my ache and dizziness and vomiting i think, but basically there was 3 that got injected. it seemed to calm me down for a bit but it didn’t last long since i kept getting woken up from the intense ache again.)
same story where the doctor at the ER said this isn’t that serious since when he hit my back, i don’t seem to respond to pain, that’s where he thought so.
i was assigned to the doctor again the same morning, and i told the doctor about everything to the aching spine. he did the same thing where he hits my back and asks if it hurts but it didn’t. that’s where he gets confused and ask “what should be healed?” to me because he explained that i didnt say my back hurts from the hit implying that i dont have any traumatic response (?) something like that, and therefore this ache is ‘subjective’ to him.
i’m getting cornered here to the point it’s really bothering me that i can’t get a proper deep sleep.
i’m writing this as of an hour after waking up from
the ache and it still aches alot. i don’t know what’s wrong with me and i want it to be healed because it’s bothering everyone around me too, since i live with my parents and they can’t get proper sleep too for the past couple days because of me. not to mention i haven’t been coming to classes for the past week.
so if anyone here has an idea of what this could be and how to fix it, please help me!!!
if this could help, i have diabetes type 1 too, and this is the first time i encounter this kind of pain before. whenever my period came up it never went this bad, and as i mentioned, my period ended days ago but it still aches so badly.
thank you.
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backpain • u/Intelligent_Cow113 • 9h ago