I have suffered lower back pain for the last 5 weeks. I've been to the doctors, and all they do is give me pain killers. They don’t help what so ever. They won’t tell me what the problem is. Is it my bowels or my kidneys.

It could be caused by an imbalance between the strength of your abdominal and lower back muscles of course.

This was my situation and a few days of sit ups resolved the issue.

You can find a set of exercises that take just 5 minutes collectively if you visit our Lower Back Pain section.

Other causes range from Inflammatory Pelvic Disease to Kidney infection, though the latter would likely have in agony by now.

Try the exercises and if needs be, apply some Atrogel morning, noon and night so as to make the discomfort tolerable.

Generally, you should expect the problem to resolve itself if it is indeed muscular.

Best wishes

Earle