Anyone have any experience of these?

I’m off to see the doc this week for ever worsening lower back pain, and the likelihood is that this is the problem.

I’ve made the usual internet age mistake of reading about it and discovering I should have gone to the doctor years ago 😕

To be honest, the likelihood is that you have neither and you just have a sore back.

Thank you for that diagnosis. I shall let the doctor (a relative and not my GP) who suggested that this is the likely explanation for the symptoms know that he is probably wrong 🙂

I wouldn’t trust a lot of Drs when they are talking about back pain.

wanmankylung – Member
Well one is a benign tumour that is basically a lump of fat, and the other is a bit of lumbar disk that would be pushing on a spinal nerve root, which due to the construction of your spinal column wouldn’t be palpable or visible on the surface. I wouldn’t really trust a lot of Drs when they are talking about back pain.

No, not a herniated disc, a lumbar hernia, off to the side not on/in the spine. It’s just another name for episacral lipoma.

Fair enough. I still wouldn’t trust the diagnosis.