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[Kachina624]

@CJC    This is quick and easy and works for me.  Sit upright in a chair.  Point the foot on the painful leg away from you hard and hold for 10 seconds.   Then point the foot back toward you and hold again.  Repeat until you get relief.  Sometimes I do this in bed before I ever get up.

[CJC]

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@gtx wrote:

@CJC Get the book "Pain Free"  by Pete Egoscue. Do the positions for sciatica. You will be amazed. No drugs and no chiropractor. 

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Will definitely order this book. Thanks!

[CJC]

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@kare29 wrote:

Try putting an ice pack at the base of your spine for 20 minutes and repeat several times throughout the day.  I have had minor issues and that seemed to help me out.  

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Have been using heating pad but will try alternating with ice. 

[CJC]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I'll try them. Having knee replacement soon on opposite leg and don't want to deal with that recovery pain while struggling with sciatica pain in the non operative leg. I won't have a leg to stand on, so to speak. 

[Desertdi]

CHRONIC sciatica...I think I got it carrying groceries up to my first apartment...a 4th floor walk-up...

[Desertdi]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@CJC    This is quick and easy and works for me.  Sit upright in a chair.  Point the foot on the painful leg away from you hard and hold for 10 seconds.   Then point the foot back toward you and hold again.  Repeat until you get relief.  Sometimes I do this in bed before I ever get up.

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@Kachina624 

I just MEMORIZED that.    di

[ciao_bella]

I got relief from sciatica pain from doing exercises and stretches.  Most often I do these every morning (in bed)  or in the evening (in bed).  These exercises can be found if you Google them.  Like anything else, after you get relief keep up the exercises on a daily basis.  It only takes a few minutes while in bed and you'll have no more flare up sciatica issues. 

[KCDiva]

I've had 3 bouts of sciatica in several years. They come out of the blue. I think it's almost the worst pain ever. Luckily I got into a pain clinic after several weeks and an MRI and got a steroid shot. It works miracles but my back with spinal stenosis is always giving me pain. I love the heating pad. Pain medication doesn't help. If I sit too long or stand too long my back hurts. I try to get in my steps daily but I'm not sure if it makes my back hurts more or less when I walk. I've still got to lose that pesky 10 lbs. 

[chrystaltree]

Yes, for years.   Sciatica just describes the type of nerve pain, to get relief your doctor must find out the cause of your nerve pain.  It's spinal stenosis for me.   A herniated lumbar disc causes my bff's spinal stenosis.  The only thing that works for me is gabapentin.  Nothing else relieves the pain.  When I'm having a flare up, I take it every 8 hours.  It makes me sleepy but I'll take that over the pain.  At one time, I got steroid injections but after a few years, they lost their effectiveness.  

[beach-mom]

@CJC - I developed this during the pandemic. Once they ruled out other things, I had physical therapy, did exercises at home, and finally had injections. It was all new to me. I hadn't had PT since I fractured my kneecap in college - in a swimming accident! But I had fallen a few times when I was young and landed on my back. One time I somersaulted down stone steps after slipping at the top. 

One of my friends had it during pregnancy, someone DH knew had it for 3 weeks, and they both were fine after.

Nothing worked. I was in pain like I'd never known. The only thing that helped was Excedrin, and I couldn't take it often. I got out of the house twice a week, to film on Thursday and do our parking lot service on Sunday. I couldn't do anything at home that involved lifting. And I couldn't get comfortable. What I COULD do was sleep at night - for some reason.

My pain specialist recommended the M.I.L.D. procedure. It took a few days of rest, then I was up moving around and pain free. That was in late 2021.

I hope you get relief!