instruction: hello doctor around am today I had really bad back pain all of a sudden I have a cold so I have been texting so I thought it was just that but around 10 or am the pain started to shoot down my leg as well it hurts when I sit and walk and lift my leg
output: hello looking at your problem from very near it would be sudden bending causing pressure on disc and protrusion to lumbar nerve causing shooting like pain on leg the cold and even cough increase the inner disc pressure and causing nerve to more pressure which causes symptom worst so I would recommend you to use lumbosacral belt on lumbar spine at lower back I would also recommend some medicine to take for this problem and follow up with mri for further improvement zanaflex tizanidine my po bid for week capsule neurontin gapapentin 100 my po bid for one week capsule pantoprazole 40 my once daily for one week