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Mid-back muscle spasms: Unending

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Yes, I had this same kind of spasming for many years. The only way I could get them to stop was to do physical therapy, apply ICE as a heating pad only made it worse with long term use. Relief was temporary with heat and the relaxation would cause muscle tone to be lost. The best exercise I found was to swim as the buoyancy of being in water relieved the stress on the joints and muscles all over my body. My eventual solution was not any I'd wish on my worst enemy. The spasms were due to my spine becoming arthritic and were my body trying to protect itself. Eventually I had to have three surgeries to my spine and a fusion of the vertebrae in order to keep my ability to walk and still there is pain. And narcotics do not control it at all. They only help to make it tolerable for a short time. Good luck with this

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Thank you for your thoughts, I tried physical therapy once my back returned to normal and the exercises they gave me caused another back muscle spasm! I would think swimming would bring on a muscle spasm as well as PT. I have had CT scans and ex-rays and I have nothing wrong with my spine. This is purely a muscle issue and I wish someone could find a way to make the spasm stop because I am in agony and have to sit in a chair all day every day until it stops! I am 82 years old.

I tried ice on my muscle spasm for 24 hours and got basically no relief, whereas the heating pad does make it feel better, but I can't walk around with a heating pad on my back! Also, valium gives me a little relief, but not enough to get out of my chair.