Any one have a back that demands to be noticed? The last couple of months mine has been doing just that, but this month it's especially nasty. About a week or two before I due to start (which keeps showing up earlier and earlier these days), my lower back starts to burn. Eventually I'm feeling achy across the middle and shoulder area of my back. I can't sleep for more than an hour or two at night with all this discomfort going on.
Is this a common thing for others? Does this signify anything--like I'm getting closer to the end of peri?

Thanks for your input!
BJ

wish i could tell you that it meant you were closer to the end of all of this. i can tell you that early on i used to get alot of upper back/shoulder burning/achiness. these days i get the achiness & burning in my ribs & arms more than the back. & lately (after a 65 day cycle & barely a period that counts) i have been getting enough of it in my hips & outer thighs at night to cause sleep disruption.

but after a period of time, it seems to do like the rest of so many of these symptoms - vanish for awhile, come back in some other incarnation, etc.

so.... sorry. sympathy. hope it is really really brief in it's visit to you. & best wishes for pain free days ahead.

hugs,
ellen

Well, Ellen, I'll take a sympathetic ear any day. My sisters and Mom can't relate to what I'm going through--or maybe it's that they WON'T relate to it . . . .
In either case, I am so glad that a while back I found this site and so many symapthetic ears. And a ton of advice!
You are so right in saying that just like all of these "wonderful" symptoms, it'll probably vanish sometime soon and something new will sprout up.
My body is not mine any longer. I do hope it returns soon.
Thanks, Ellen, and I hope you're having a peri-free day!
BJ

this is exactly what I am going through, Im 34 days out from my period and started with feeling just horrible. body aches .. started in what felt like my lower spine ,, now all over my back muscled up to my neck,, taking advil ,, ug

Oh Man! this is me right now too! I have just posted this , but my upper back and left shoulder blade are starting up!
My mind kicks into high gear and i start imagining the worst! If this had been me a few years ago, i would've just thought it was some kind of muscle ache, but now, i'm convinced it's a heart attack! geez! If the symptom isn't bad enough, the FEAR AND ANXIETY of what it could be........IS!

i do know that they say any burning back pain usaually means its coming from nerve being pinched or damaged !!

OK Im getting back to this now .. it started exactly 11 days before my period started (46 days from the last one).. so I am now convinced it is during the Luteal phase like some say (the 12 days or so before your period onset),, I have read magnesium helps .. so when I start feeling this way Im going to double up on my vitamins ,, take 2 a day for a while to see if it helps.. also advil helped me quit a bit.