I'm suffering from a LOT of lower/middle back pain recently, enough to where it's almost disabling--it's even gotten hard for me to walk more than a few yards.
I'm suspecting that it could be because my stomach has gotten SO large in the past year. I say that "my gut sits on my lap". Can anyone else identify with this? (Currently I'm 50, 5'4", and about 215 lbs.)
Do you think it's possible that having to carry this big stomach around is causing my back pain? I've been fatter than this before and never had this kind of back trouble, but I was younger then and probably didn't carry QUITE as much right in my "bread basket" area, as my mom used to call it.
Has anyone else suffered from back pain that went away after they lost their gut? Please tell me that's the case, so I can get myself back to the gym and work through the pain.