Help! Overdid it with deadlifts

Well first thing first man heat and Ice are always good. The painkillers are ok but your hurting for a reason and if it is stopping u from living then I suggest taking them. If not then let the pain help to not over exert yourself. I did something similar with 3 days of rock climbing in a row and I awoke in the middle of the night with my forearm muscles locked up. I would just take it easy... if u can also try and lightly.... and I mean lightly... stretch the muscles.

I just noticed the part about the pain being in your abdomen. That is pretty much a bad indicator. You may wanna check out something like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syt7A23YnpA&feature=related as well as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-N9hAuxNs&feature=channel

The foam roller will likely not be helping with a hernia. Also, even if u have exemplary form everyone can stand to hear Mark Rippetoe coach someone thru deadlifting form. He sorta knows what hes talking about.

If you are feeling it in your back, then again, you are not lifting correctly and you WILL injure your back eventually. If you are doing them correctly, then the ONLY place you should feel this exercise is in your hamstrings. You should be bracing your spine with your abdominal muscles to protect your back while doing deadlifts. If you're not sure how, just ask one of the trainers at the gym (are you doing this in a gym?) to demo the correct technique. If you don't have good core strength, then you should really consider adding that to your routine as well. I don't mean by doing situps, I'm talking about using deeper muscles, such as your transverse abdominus which is a very important muscle for lower back strength. Try a pilates class to learn the correct way to incorporate abdominal bracing. There are lots of good lower abdominal exercises out there to help you get good core strength.

If you are interested in learning more, you can send me a messagem I would be happy to give you some pointers. I'm a physical therapist and I treat sports injuries. I'd say about 75% of my patients have back pain, so this is an area I am very familiar with!

I mean, I may be crazy, but if it's soreness/pain in your lower back, isn't that kind of normal? I do deadlifts as part of my back workout, and typically my back is a bit sore for a day or two, the same as any muscle group is if it's worked correctly. If it feels like sore muscles maybe you just had a good workout?

I know the first couple times I did deadlifts, the muscles weren't used to the motion, and I was sore and limping around for a couple days, after a while though the muscle builds up and it shouldn't hurt so much. But with any muscle, if you work it good and hard in the gym you should be pretty sore the next day. That's just my opinion, maybe it is more serious, but if it's just a sore muscle in your lower back I think that might be normal.

Im gonna have to say I feel deadlifts from my neck to my Achilles. Thats why it is the single best exercise EVAR!! If you only did deadlifts twice a week and nothing else you would still be really freakin strong. The same cannot be said for other exercises except maybe squats and the Olympic movements.

There's a difference between pain and muscle achey-ness from working out.

I mostly feel deadlifts in my Hamstrings......never in my back.

FYI, and I didn't know this until I read about it on the internet.

I had a sore lower back for a while. I think I made it sore after a P90x workout.
A friend told me that if I have tight hamstrings it could cause lower back pain.
Sure enough my hamstrings get tight, I can feel some pain in the lower back, or when I have pain in the lower back now, I stretch out the hamstrings.

I didn't believe him until I read online. Tight hamstrings can cause lower back pain.
Here's 1 site with explanation.
http://chetday.com/backchronicpain.htm