Does anyone here suffer from a condition called sciatica if so can u tell me how long u have had it?

Answer 1

Sciatica Treatment
Home Treatment Ideas:
Trigger Point Therapy and Acupressure for Sciatic Nerve Pain
Sciatica Exercises - yoga poses for sciatic pain.

In the past I had problems with sciatic pain in my right leg, on the concave side of my scoliosis curve. My whole leg would tingle when I walked. If I moved wrong or twisted my body a certain way, I'd get this excruciating, shooting pain down my leg. Ironically, I actually developed sciatica from physical therapy for back pain. I'm not sure about physical therapy in other countries, but in the U.S. many therapists seem to focus a lot on back strengthening exercises, which in my experience can often do more harm than good when backs are already tight and in spasm.
Knowing what I know now, having eliminated my sciatic pain completely, strengthening exercises were probably the worst thing I did for for my sciatic pain or any other kind of nerve damage. Nerves can be irritated when they get trapped inside constricted muscles, so when I would tighten the muscles in my back and buttocks through the wrong exercises, it just ended up putting more pressure on the nerve, increasing the pain. Eventually I did find a physical therapist who actually helped me a great deal with my leg pain and other orthopedic problems. The PT that helped me focused more on proper body alignment and balancing my muscles, rather than the strengthening and weight training exercises preferred by many of his less knowledgeable colleagues.
Listed below are some tips I found helpful for sciatic treatment
1. Trigger point therapy - I found trigger point therapy, which is a form of self massage, to be highly effective for pain relief for many musculoskeletal problems, and especially for sciatica. Trigger points are small contractions in muscles that respond to counter pressure. They can tighten up your muscles, which in turn can entrap and impinge on surrounding nerves.

Answer 2

I posted this question a few weeks back. (link below)

I have had it since december last year and yes it hurts like hell.

In fact I am due at the Chiroprator in 20 mins for it.

I really do sympathise with you as it has resulted in me loosing 2 months at work on sick leave.

I was diagnosed with left side sciatica as it is in my left leg but it can move to the opposite side.

You should visit a chiroprator as doctors will only give you pain killers. I am on co-codamol and diclofenac (anti inflammitory) but but This will only help the pain - not fix the problem..

I went to see a private chiroprator who cracked my back into place and its 10 time better now.


It happens when one of the discs inbetween your vertibre (back bones) slips out and presses against the sciatic nerve.

The nerve runs from the base of your back right down the leg hence the pain in your lower back, buttocks, thigh, calf and sometimes foot.

I'm a 26 year old male and it has certainly made me realise I'm not invincible.

Some days I haven't been able to get out of bed because of my sciatica.

From the answers I recieved it seems people have it for life !!!

have a look here for some goos tips on excersises that will help you... Its the guy im seeing in ... 10 mins now :oS got to go sorry

http://www.chiropracticassociates.co.uk/about.php

Good luck - I really feel for you/sufferer as it is the most intense pain I have ever experienced in my life !

Answer 3

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Does anyone here suffer from a condition called sciatica if so can u tell me how long u have had it?

Answer 4

Hey there,
It is a fact that no one condition reflects sciatica and it would be prudent to refer to it as a generic medical term encompassing lots of symptoms that taken together describe a lower back pain that a patient suffers from. When someone complains of severe back pain that passes down to legs through his buttocks, even down to his feet and toes, doctors suspect him to be suffering from sciatica. Often sciatica presents itself as numbness or a tingling sensation that may not be anything like the severe pain commonly associated with sciatica. This tingling or numbness may be felt by the person when he engages in some activities.


On this site you can find very good tips on how to treat your sciatica: http://curesciatica.toptips.org
Cheers ;)

Answer 5

Yes, suffered with it for 8 years. Suffering with it right now and for the last 2 weeks.

Finally had a ray of hope from the docs today after ongoing drugs have not done a thing! they are sending me for an MRI scan to see if they can do anything for me to stop it re-occuring (got to wait 6-8weeks though). I know its a long shot but i have to remain hopeful.

Other than that im sorry, i have no cures or even temorary relief remedies, but i feel for everyone who suffers from this unbearable condition, i've sometimes felt suicidal with the crippling agony and thought the pain would send me insane. I certainly hold my hat off to anyone who has to deal with acute pain on a daily basis!

Answer 6

I had sciatica years ago. It started in my buttock and the pain shot down my leg. It was horrendous and was like toothache. I took loads of anti infalammatory pills and pain killers but to no avail. Eventually I had acupressure on the base of my spine. My husband's seinsi (aikido master) treated mje twice and the pain went. This was about 15 years ago and I have not had pain since.Good luck.

Answer 7

sciatica is a trapped sciatic nerve in the lower back it can cause pain down either legs or both there aint much you can do with it i found that if it was bothering me in the night i hung the affected leg over the stairs (dangling it whilst standing on other leg) this provides a bit of respite other than ibuprofen will reduce any inflamation around the nerve ending and paracetemol will help with the pain but it will eventually go on its own

Answer 8

I get sciatica down my left leg, caused by carrying heavy bag on right shoulder which caused my pelvis and spine to twist Had it for 13 years and best things I found where chiropractor for initial problem then the Alexander technique to retrain your posture along with pilates to give your core muscles strengh

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Since 1985.

It hit me with a vengeance one day as I pushed my youngest child's pushchair down the front step. Foolishly, not realising what it was, I continued walking through the pain and went uphill to shop.

That journey home with shopping on the handle, a fractious, heavy toddler and downhill steps forcing pain to shoot throughout my spine and down both legs, is etched into my memory, painfully.

I was crawling on all fours in the door and had to call my (now ex husband) home from work eighteen miles away... it laid me up for six weeks and the doctor looked down at me on the floor and offered me his hand and when I tried to take it... aaah... I couldn't even grip his back.

Doc: Ah... yes... you've got sciatica!

Me: How long will I be like this?

Doc: For the rest of your life.

Me: Whaaat? Down here... like this... forever?

Doc: No... no... you'll get over this one eventually, but it will come and go for the rest of your life, varying in severity.

Boy was he right!

I also have cervical spondylosis (crumbling of the spine in the neck) and this reared its head in 1995 ten years later.

Arthritis in my hands and wrists cut me down to size when I was swinging on an overhead ladder... just weeks before sciatica hit me, as I was being raced across it by three teenage daughters... me as always (then forty) determined to be first across, when suddenly, my wrists gave way and I landed heavily on my spine... which, in it's turn, created the painful sciatica a week or so later.

I'd been diagnosed with a 'form of arthritis' aged 23... by a GP, whilst recovering from the childbirth complication of pre-eclampsia, (toxaemia to us old folk) but my stubborn nature refused to give in to it and I paced myself... and stayed the winner in the mother's races, for many years after.

The arthritis is hereditary... we all have it in my clan in some degree or other... I just got it first and it shows more on me.

It's painful every day, cold weather is the worst, but I defied the quacks, refused their meds and did it my way... and did not end in a wheelchair at age 50... as they predicted then.

At sixty one, I have good days and bad days... depending on the weather... and admittedly the bad ones last longer... but they are less frequent too, because I keep on moving, and refuse to sit and wait... and I still run about... and am miles faster than my peers... but, when they think I'm a boring old recluse who shuts herself indoors for a week or two, it's really me pacing the pain again!

They can't feel it, see it, except in my hands, so they think I'm not really bad at all. Like the animals, I choose to go to ground until I can run up the steps again... and get into my car, without wincing!

The back problems are a throwback from two serious road accidents age 8 and 28... neither was my fault and damages were paid to me both times, but... it seems when middle age arrived, I'd got away with it for far too long the quack said, and it was pay back time.

He said it all comes under the umbrella of arthritis... Sod's law... but there it is... and it had to happen to someone... and rather me than anyone I know, because I'm a stubborn cuss;-)

Sciatica is not the end of life... pace it, don't become it...

from an expert in the pain:-)