Medicine For Back Pain

Medicine painkillers such as paracetamol, ibuprofen, and diclofenac probably hardly help with the recovery of lower back pain.

If you still want to take a back pain medicine (painkillers), you should take paracetamol (2 tablets of 500 mg maximum 4 times a day). The most important thing is to keep moving and if paracetamol can help you with that, that's fine.

You can also apply diclofenac gel or ibuprofen gel on your back.

Paracetamol has fewer side effects than ibuprofen and other NSAIDs. Are you over 60 years old? Do you have stomach, intestinal, heart, vascular or kidney problems? Do you use medication? Then ask your doctor or pharmacy if you can use an NSAID. Look for risks and side effects with NSAIDs.

Do not use muscle relaxants (benzodiazepines, such as temazepam, oxazepam, diazepam ). They do not help with lower back pain but do have side effects.

How does it go with a pain in the lower back?

Pain in the lower back usually passes by itself. Complaints usually decrease within 4 weeks if you keep moving well.

Do you not notice any improvement within 4 weeks? Then go to your doctor 4 weeks after the start of the symptoms. Your doctor will make a step-by-step plan for you. This is when you pick up your activities step by step. A physiotherapist or remedial therapist can assist you if necessary. With the company doctor, you can discuss solutions for your work.

The chance that you will get it back is great. More than half of the people will suffer from it within a year. Even then, the complaints often go over again if you keep moving well.

When contact with your doctor at a pain in the lower back?

In case of pain in the lower back, contact your doctor:

• if the pain is constantly very intense, whatever posture you are or is
• if you are also dizzy, perspiring and have the feeling that you can faint
• if you have less strength in your leg (you can not stand on your toes or heel anymore)
• if there is a numb feeling in your groins and around the anus
• if you can not pee anymore
• if you can not stop the pee or stool
• if you have had cancer in the past
• if the complaints have arisen after a fall
• if you have recently had surgery (or had an injection) on your back
• if there is severe pain in one leg (you can then have a hernia ).

If you have any of these symptoms, it may be that it is not normal back pain.