@wrzakers I was going to guess something like that. Thanks for posting. You could have a variety of things like a pulled muscle, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, scar tissue impending, and you need to see your orthopedic surgeon if you don’t love your orthopedic surgeon. Go find another one.. I might be responding to the wrong person because the initial poster I think has a different name but any case pain relief should be very minimal like Tylenol until you see an orthopedic surgeon and have a current x-ray done. Once that happens, then the surgeon can direct you to PT, rehab, and MFR therapist, and exercise, muscle, relaxers, steroids, or anything else which may be an accurate reflection of where you currently are in your process a pain management. A muscle or muscle group can definitely cause that kind of pain and it takes six weeks for it to relax. Since we don’t know how far out you are from surgery and about your entire spine situation I suggest going to the doctor to get a definitive assessment. I have degenerative disc disease and over 30 years. There are so many things which happened along the spine it’s crazy and it’s always something different and it needs a professional to tell you we can’t do that with the limited information that’s been provided. PS when I’ve had that happen for an occasional pulled muscle in my thoracic spine. A heating pad works amazingly well for pain relief while I wait six weeks for the pulled muscle/muscle groups to heal.