Yesterday I woke up and just out of the blue could barely walk from the lower back pain. Throughout the day, with stretching, heat, muscle relaxers and motrin, it started to feel somewhat better, and I laid around a lot. Today I had to stay home from work because it has traveled to my legs and again just not feeling well. Here's the question: could laying around and babying myself yesterday and today, combined with the medication, be causing me to feel short of breath a bit? Not enough to be a real issue I think, but I feel out of breath now when I get up to do something. The only thing that has changed is the pain and the medication. I am always worrying that it is something more serious when I have shortness of breath, so that is why I am wondering. I am going to a chiropractor this afternoon to hopefully get some relief.