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What Causes Lower Left Back Pain?
This morning - suddenly - I started having lower left side back pain. It was not from a sprain or lifting, just a consistent pain that movement, ointments, ice or heat will change it. It feels like a kidney stone (had one two years ago) only this time it is on the left side, last time the right. Can that shift happen? Left then right?
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Sun, 17 Aug 2014
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Mon, 6 Oct 2014
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Yes. It can happen. It may not be kidney stone always though. Get yourself examined by a physician if it persists.
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