My severe back pain has been going on since I first started this thread in February. About a week ago my back got worse and worse daily over 3-4 days. The pain was in my left lower back and became excruciating at times. It appeared to be where the sacroiliac joint is. My chiro friend said that it could be a strain of the Sacroiliac joint. The pain got to the point of complete agony so a doctor let me get a Toradol shot at the ER. It helped with some relief but there was still a lot of pain. I saw my Chiro friend today and after examining me, and based on my symptoms, he really believes that my physical issues could well be systematic - and not mechanical. This might also explain why my shoulder has been causing me extreme pain for the past few weeks. The sports med doctor I saw could only suggest it might be impingement. Also, every now and then I get other strange injuries / flare ups. For example, every once in a while, I get pain on the top of my foot (under where my shoe laces are located). It flares up, seems really painful on the bones, then goes away. Arthritis maybe? These unexplainable flare ups could be related to my IBD, my surgery, the roughly 8 years of Prednisone I took prior to my surgery, or even possibly the Entyvio infusions I have been getting, or previously the Remicade I was on. It probably wasn't Humira because very little ever got into my bloodstream.
I did have some bloodwork to look into these possibilities a few weeks ago and it came up negative. I need to try again, but this time with my GI instead of my family doctor.
If anyone can relate to these issues, please let me know. It has been a frustrating time. The reason I think I have these painful physical occurrences could well be systematic is because, as I said, is because these injuries were probably not caused my something I did but rather they seem to come and go in a very strange way. And it also seems that the long term lower back pain I have been suffering from has not shown up with the same level of seriousness on the MRIs I've had done.