My back hurts so much when I wake up

Why do I feel severe back pain after waking up from sleep?

There are many reasons for back pain after waking up, such as incorrect sleeping posture, which will cause local compression, and it may also be caused by lumbar disease. If you are too tired at work, your body will also feel sore. In fact, you can do some health exercises that are good for your body, or you can use Chinese medicine massage to relieve pain. You must pay more attention to rest, keep warm, and don't overwork.

What diseases can cause back pain symptoms?

1. Back pain caused by cervical spondylosis

How can cervical spondylosis cause back pain when it occurs in the cervical spine? Little do people know that the posterior branches of the spinal nerves of the fourth, fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae extend to the back and control the skin and muscles of the upper back.

When degenerative changes occur in the cervical spine, if the posterior branches of the spinal nerves of the fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae are pulled, back pain will occur. In fact, neck and back pain, upper limb weakness, numbness of fingers, dizziness, nausea, and even blurred vision and difficulty swallowing are all symptoms of cervical spondylosis.

2. Back pain caused by neck sprain and stiff neck

Due to incorrect movement of our cervical spine or incorrect sleeping posture, the back muscles may be strained, which will cause back pain.

3. Back pain caused by rheumatism

Rheumatism is mostly an autoimmune disease with a hidden and slow onset and a long course. It invades the joints, bones, muscles, blood vessels and related soft tissues, and can cause a certain degree of back pain. The back pain will be aggravated in cool, windy and damp weather.

4. Back pain caused by frozen shoulder

Frozen shoulder can cause shoulder joint pain. As the disease progresses, the pain range will continue to increase, and some patients will experience back pain.

5. Back pain caused by ankylosing spondylitis

Patients with ankylosing spondylitis will experience chronic generalized or persistent low back pain, tenderness over the spinous processes, stiffness in the back and waist after waking up in the morning, aggravated pain in the back and waist when leaning back, improvement after activity, and easy fatigue after standing or walking for a long time.

Patients often present with limited movement of the lower back and waist. Physical examination may reveal tenderness of the lumbar spinous processes and paraspinal muscle spasms. In the later stages, muscle atrophy and even hunchback deformity may occur.

Back pain is usually caused by the following reasons

1. Gallbladder and stomach diseases

Biliary colic, pancreatic disease, stomach and duodenal tumors, etc. can also cause shoulder and back pain.

2. Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular diseases with chest pain are most commonly angina pectoris and myocardial infarction.

3. Tumor

Bone tumors or tumors of the kidney, bladder, uterus, lung, etc. metastasize to the scapula, vertebral bones, and ribs.

4. Neck sprain

Neck sprain and stiff neck are often caused by improper neck movement or poor sleeping position, which leads to local muscle sprain. The medical history is short, the tenderness point is fixed and located at the site of muscle injury, mostly in the upper inner part of the scapula, and is accompanied by muscle spasm. Cord-like spasmodic muscle bundles with obvious tenderness can be felt, and the neck movement is obviously limited.

5. Cervical spondylosis

Cervical spondylosis has many types and complex symptoms. The pain in the neck, shoulders and back caused by it, in addition to discomfort such as soreness, heaviness, and neck stiffness, there are also numbness and weakness in the limbs, and even dizziness and headaches. The patient has a relatively long medical history, with recurrent pain in the head, neck, shoulders, back, and arms, accompanied by corresponding tender points

6. Shoulder and back pain

Many respiratory diseases cause shoulder and back pain, usually in the back, sides or scapula. The more common ones are pleural adhesions, lung cancer and tuberculosis.

7. Fibromyalgia

Myofibrosarcoma Myofibrosarcoma has obvious inducements such as cold, dampness, fatigue, sprains, etc. Local muscle stiffness, mainly soreness; the area is large, and there is usually no fixed tenderness; massage and hot compress are effective.

8. Periarthritis of shoulder

The pain of shoulder periarthritis is around the shoulder joint, the pain range is wide, and most patients have a slow onset. The symptoms are obvious limitation of shoulder joint movement; X-ray films usually show no obvious abnormalities. Now you should have some understanding of the causes of back pain. If you experience pain in a certain part of your body, you must confirm what kind of pain it is so that you can treat it accordingly.