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Back pain after bowel movement and urination
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Emptying of the intestine is accompanied by painful symptoms with a pararectal abscess (paraproctitis), especially often the pain that occurs in the rectum radiates to the back with a sciatic-rectal arrangement of the abscess. The inflammatory process has a sudden onset. Pain has a paroxysmal character, and becomes more noticeable in all movements. Especially painful is defecation, the temperature of the patient rises fever.
The process of ischial-intestinal localization quickly spreads vertically, capturing pelvic cellulose. The patient's condition deteriorates rapidly.
The cause of back pain may also be submucosal abscess of the rectum, which is localized most often on its posterior wall. The nature of the pain is aching, blunt, sometimes cramping. When emptying the intestine, it increases. The temperature is usually, if it is increased, it is insignificant.
Sharp, giving in the back during and after defecation of pain causes the presence of an anal fissure, with its recent appearance. They are very intense, but short-lived. They feel during the emptying of the intestine by the time about a quarter of an hour after the act. In acute anal fissure there is a strong spasm of the sphincter, hemorrhagic manifestations are usually small. Without treatment, the crack can become chronic, while the pain intensity decreases, but they can disturb without defecation, increasing in its process and immediately after.
Painful attacks in the anus, stretching, giving in the back with the emptying of the intestine and after it, accompanying walking, running, felt while sitting are signs of the onset of an acute attack of hemorrhoids, when the hemorrhoidal node is infringed. Sensations are very intense, sometimes they can not be tolerated, because there are a lot of nerve endings around the anus. Often the patient can not sit or walk. Lumbar pain is felt in the sacral or coccygeal zone, usually when hemorrhoids are started, because thrombi formed in the fallen node become too large, which disturbs the blood flow, stagnation appears. The fired hemorrhoids can be complicated by necrosis of the nodes. Back pain usually occurs when the patient has spent a long time in one pose.
Pain after defecation in the back can signal and problems with the spine in the lumbosacral portion, which strains in the process of bowel evacuation (osteochondrosis, tuberculous spondylitis). Their cause can be established only together with the doctor, having passed inspection.
Back pain after urination
If the process of emptying the bladder is accompanied by pain in the back, first of all, you sin on the inflammation of the kidneys. Such complication can be after SARS, flu or cold. Pain and frequent urinary retention are reminiscent of cystitis or urethritis. This is true, inflammation of the urinary organs, as a rule, causes painful impulses in the lower back, rubbers in the urethra, frequent scarce and incomplete emptying of the bladder. The head may get sore, the body temperature may rise, a general malaise may be observed.
Back pain and violation of the bladder emptying process can also speak of urolithiasis, the same symptoms cause neoplasms of the urinary organs. Therefore, to clarify the diagnosis, you need to contact a urologist.
Tuberculosis spondylitis of the lumbosacral section is manifested, in addition to other signs (weakness, subfebrile temperature, nausea and headache), and urinary disorders. Pain in the lumbar region increases during and after bladder emptying.
Osteomyelitis is manifested by pain in the back and violations of the process of urination, it must be differentiated from kidney disease, because the symptoms are similar.
When there are back pain after urination, it is necessary to visit a doctor, and if the symptoms are acute - high fever, severe pain, urinary blood admixture, signs of dehydration, swelling, then an ambulance should be called up, since such signs indicate a life-threatening patient condition .