Lower Back Pain, Bloating & Constipation: Understanding Potential Causes & Relief

Question
Greeting,

I'm 27 yr old female and mother of three. Since april I have been going to the doctors for my lower back pain. Mri ruled out that I do not have herniated disc and my doctor think I have nerve damage on my lower back. So she prescribed me a lot of medicine including the patch for the pain. I alternating the med between tramadol, lortab 5mg, and percocet 5mg and taking flexiril and neurotin. Last week I got diagnosed bladder infection on top of that due to having little blood clots in my urin so now I m taking antibiotic also. Due to all those medication I have been super constipated so I had to take laxitive last week as well. And laxitive helped me to have bm. Its been 3days without bm and since 2days ago I been super nausea and vomitting and bloating. Can't pass gas easily also. And today when I was taking a shower I notice I have bump under my left rib cage. Its super noticeable. But I do not have yet just unconfy feeling. I have physical therapy tom and bunch other appt for my back problem. Could it be something else like overian cancer and my doctor just not thinking about it? Please help me I want to be healthy like before so I can do my normal activity with my kids I'm getting really depressed because of all this health problem. :(

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Answer
you are really constipated from taking all those narcotic pain medicines..... you should start Miralax, at least 1 capful daily with a full glass of water until you can get off the pain medicine.  It is easy to worry about additional problems, but much more likely is that you have these problems, made worse by side effects......   good luck with it....