Re: sciatica

GSPgirl · ‎01-03-2012

My PT told me walking is the best thing for that. Mine went away a few years ago. I do water aerobics 3 times a week now. No more hip or back pain. Unfortunately, sitting is the worse thing you can do for this pain. Get to a doctor and PT as soon as you can.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

so agree with @lokokimono. Sciata pain is among the most awful I've ever had. It once shiut down al my nerves from the hip to my toes and I thought my leg had fallen off because I couldn't feel it!

With maybe the fourth episode, I finally found a chiropractor who was able to give me relief, but it took a few weeks. She worked from x-rays (I'm not even sure there were MRI's at the time), not just from her practiced hands and the pain relief was far better than I got anywhere else.

I sometimes still have pain and even pain chiropractic doesn't get at. Fortunately, that same doctor is a trained acupuncturist and we've used that. Whatever works to let me live with a smile!

One reason I wear the shoes so many posters call dowdy is that both that great chiropractor and my podiatrist tell me that wearing the wrong shoes undoes their work in less than a half hour! The choice then is between dowdy and pain. I'll take dowdy, thank you.

My advice to OP - get a proper diagnosis - not from us or local friends and go from there. It's worth the effort. Back problems have a nasty way of being chronic.

VaBelle35 · ‎03-10-2010

@GSPgirl wrote:
My PT told me walking is the best thing for that. Mine went away a few years ago. I do water aerobics 3 times a week now. No more hip or back pain. Unfortunately, sitting is the worse thing you can do for this pain. Get to a doctor and PT as soon as you can.

Water Aerobics is what fixed mine as well. The warm water and the stretching of my leg in the water was the best remedy.

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marzi 1 · ‎07-13-2010

Thanks everyone for your help! Good to know the "community"is out there!

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

I had it once. It took about a month to get better. The chiropractor was the thing that worked for me.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@marzi 1 wrote:
Any help on this ?Please let me know if you have had this and what to do, going to Dr. next week, left side always in pain any suggestions? thanks...

if you can take an anti-inflammatory like aleve/advil that might help. i personally used ice on my leg. mine was the L-5 lumbar disc and the S-1 disc below it. my pain was all in my right leg. I needed open back surgery as my discs had completely ruptured into my spinal canal.

other than that? for me it was finding a comfortable position, until it was no longer comfortable.

I wish you the best

E.T.A. As others have said here, the source of REAL sciatica cannot be 100% sure without having an MRI. X-rays and others show very little about all components that make up the Spinal column.

While I believe in GOOD Chiropractors, I would never let any one of them adjust my back using only an X-ray, and most Chiropractors do not have access to an MRI. A good friend of mine is a Spinal Specialist and works only on the spine. He removed my ruptured L-3 back in 2009.

hnj

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AKgirl2 · ‎05-24-2016

My first bout with sciatica was in my early 30's...my husband was seeing a chiropractor at that time and suggested I go...I did and had immediate relief after the first treatment. Went for another 3 scheduled treatments and had no recurrence until years later.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

OH my! Boy! Did I ever!

My developed after retiring from teaching with my first position working in clothes. Everyone wanted me to style them because I had taught design, and everyone used my dressing rooms causing me to have to carry those clothes half a football field back. With pushing clothes together to pick up a large group at one time when stocking, I had searing pain at thre top of my left hip.

I got to the point I literally had to "walk up my legs when I crawled out of bed. I had to use the restroom handicap stall at work!

I left and went to a chiropractor who was first class. He worked with me six months three times a week until the inflamation took over.

By the time I took myself to the medical doctor, the PA had to CARRY me to the treatment room. I have known my doctor thirty years. He couldn't believe it when I couldn't get up out of the chair for him to examine me.

I've been doing great for five years on Meloxicam, which is an

anti-inflammatory. The dr is very tall, and he takes it too. I still have to carry heavy things "centered" in the middle of my body.

Reba055 · ‎06-23-2014

It depends on what's causing it. Until you see the doc, anti inflammatory meds are about the best option. And ice can really help too if it's inflamed. The only thing that ever really gave me relief was spinal steroid /lidocaine injections because I have a few problems causing it. I still have issues if I overdue it, or do certain things. Can't stand for extended periods or walk too much.