Who suffers with Siatica and what do you think helps you ?

Question

I have suffered with this for yrs and at the moment im in alot off pain,just started with picking a cushion up off the floor,any ideas ? Dont want to keep taking pills all the time,and if you go to the gp he gives you more medication,any ideas most welcome.Thanks

Answer 1

If you are overweight lose it. Go to a osteopath. They can deal with sciatica better than doctors. Once it is clear keep your weight down and exercise regularly

Answer 2

Depends on the GP! However for 98% of patients with sciatica, a condition which is so common that the majority of people will suffer from it at some time or other, the management is pain relief and exercise or physio. Only a fraction of 1% of sufferers will go farther and be offered a surgical option.

Answer 3

Stand two feet away from and facing the counter top in the kitchen. Slowly bend the knee of the effected leg and raise until it is level with the counter top. Press it into the counter top while leaning forward. Its like an athlete stretching out a muscle and it has helped me for years. You can also use the stairs by slowly moving the effected leg up two or three stairs while you are standing at the base of the stairs and again leaning into the bent leg. Good Luck . Hope it helps.

Answer 4

My chiropracter gave me this advice. I was relutant to try it but it did really work.

Put cold on the small of your back for an hour. You have to use clothes or fabric to protect your skin from frostbite. I use a freezer pack for a cooler. I sit in an arm chair and wrap the rest of me in a blanket. I watch a one hour TV show or read a book while I'm doing this. I was shocked at how well this works. At the time my allergist had told me not to take asprin or ibuprofine so I was desperate for pain relief. The most important part is to protect you skin from direct contact with the cold source.

Answer 5

I find that Chiropractic care works good for me, I know a siatica is not in the bones and joints that the chiropractor works on, but sometimes if something is out of line and needs to be adjusted then my siatic nerve flares up and bothers me until I get an adjustment. Good luck.

Answer 6

I have a friend who has sciatica, and she has come forward in leaps and bounds by using 'the alexandra technique' which is taught by a practitioner,

She was bedbound 10 yrs ago, found this practitioner and started the process of learning. its a posture thing.
She has worked full time for around 7 yrs so there is a light at the end of the tunnel

Answer 7

SCIATICA IS SO BAD SOMETIMES i DRAG MY LEG...UNFORTUNATELY YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT INJURING OTHER PARTS OF YOUR ANATOMY BECAUSE WE UNCONSCIOUSLY WALK DIFFERENTLY WHEN ONE PART IS IN PAIN. COLD DOES HELP, AS PREVIOUSLY ADVISED...IT ACTUALLY FREEZES THAT PART OF THE NERVE SO THAT PAIN RECEPTORS DO NOT REACH THE BRAIN. HOWEVER, I HATE THE COLD....i FIND MOIST HEAT WORKS WELL FOR ME MOST OF THE TIME. WHY? BECAUSE IT DILATES VESSELS SO THAT BLOOD REACHES PAINED AREA, INCLUDING DICK AREA THAT IS CAUSING SCIATICA. AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY SUCH AS IBUPROFEN IS A MUST HAVE, ALSO. YOU CAN GET IT OTC. ALSO, WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN PAIN, TRY TIGHTENING UP BUTT MUSCLES,,,SOMEHOW THIS HELPS ME, TOO. GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS.