PAIN IN BACK WITH INSOMNIA: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Even a mild form of back pain can interfere with most of your daily activities, including your ability to sleep. When the back pain doesn’t go away despite rest and treatment, you may find that it’s difficult to sleep through the night. This can quickly turn into a Catch-22 situation, because the accompanying lack of sleep makes it difficult fot you to function during the day. You may then become stressed and frustrated, which only makes your back pain worse.
If you have chronic back pain that is interfering with your sleep, you may have a condition called fibromyalgia, or fibrositis, in which the tissues that connect the muscles to the bones and ligaments become inflamed. Fibromyalgia is common in midlife adults, and women are affected more often than men. It can flare up without warning if you strain or pull a muscle in your back or if you are under emotional stress.
Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between fibromyalgia and the back pain that comes as a result of a muscle pull; here’s some help. With fibromyalgia, you’ll feel the back pain deep within the muscles of your back, not on the surface. The pain is likely to occur along the spine and perhaps the shoulder—anywhere muscle connects to the bones: the shoulder, the hip joint, and the back of the neck. Even though the pain originates in the connective tissue, any slight movement will cause pain to radiate throughout the rest of the back, frequently making the exact area hard to pinpoint.
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