What Causes Pain On Right Side Of Middle Back Area?

Posted on Wed, 26 Nov 2014

Question: I've had pain in my rt middle back for about 6 weeks. I also have went from normal bowel movements , every morning, to once or twice a week. Bowel movements have changed from normal appearance to either constipation or very thin snake like appearance. My lower GI growls a lot but I do not have abdominal pain. I do have occasional pain in my rt testical that radiates down my rt leg and around my tailbone. When this pain occurs it is usually followed by passing gas which lessens the pain.
What could be causing this? I had a colonoscopy in 2103 that was negative.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Klerida Shehu (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Constipation/UTI/prostate/sciatic nerve...

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

1. The pain you are feeling on your right middle back with constipation-like bowel movements and which radiates to right testicles and down to your leg might be related to:

- constipation as long as the nearest colonoscopy was negative
- urinary tract infection
- prostate problems

2. Taking into account your current age (51), I advise to run further lab tests to determine the right cause:
- urine analysis
- abdominal ultrasound
- kidney/liver/pancreas function test
- complete blood count

3. If everything is ok, then, should run X-ray/MRI of vertebral spine (lumbar-sacral) region to exclude sciatic nerve.

Hope it helped!
Dr.Klerida

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