Back pain/sciatica

Jimmieblue said:
If it works for you stick with it.
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It did, haven’t had to have any treatment or pain killers for a couple of years now. It was strange, it moved the terrible pain from my arse cheek down to the outside of my left knee. It stayed there for a couple of weeks, a few more sessions and it moved to the bottom of my foot and made it go slightly numb but no real pain as such. It’s still there and will probably do nerve damage but I can live with that
 
I get it on average 5 times a year. Doing the job I do (Engineering) I’m always thinking how I move my body.. but sometimes it happens getting out of bed. I’ve been 2 months without it at the moment, the worst was 3 weeks about 4 years ago and I was nearly in tears by the end thinking it was never going to go away. I can sympathise with anyone who suffers this awful thing
 
Managed to get a telephone appointment with my doctor (who I’ve never actually seen) he was very polite but then offered me some of the painkillers that have been mentioned on here, one can be addictive and both could make you drowsy and have to be taken at night, with the way my job/shift works that’s not possible and I’m not taking something I can get addicted to. He asked me what I wanted and I said a scan as this has never really been diagnosed so I’ve got to go fill in some paperwork tomorrow for a referral.
Thing is today I did 3 miles with the dog, first 1/2 mile I was in agony and nearly turned back but pushed on by the end I was miles better, feeling still achy in my groin tonight, but one day out of 7 is a bonus.
 
I used to have back pain issues. So from my own experience, I can say that physical therapy helped me a lot.
 
In bits at the moment now, I had to contact the doctor to get me on the painkillers I turned down, I’ve been having physio consults by zoom and have been doing stretching for the past 12 weeks, last week I picked some shopping up and it’s like I’ve been stabbed in the back. I can’t get the pain to go, I also think by compensating fir the back, I’ve now got muscle pain not just from sciatica but muscle pulls.
The only time I get any relief is when I lie on my back for 20 mins, it goes but as soon as I stand up within 10 mins I’m crippled again. I really don’t want to go on the sick at work but fuck me im like an 80 year old hobbling round. The pain killers can take upto 6 weeks to properly kick in, it’s that bad I couldn’t even go to the match last night, that’s when the wife knew I wasn’t fucking about. Ive contacted the doctor again to see where I’m at with the MRI scan as I don’t think physio is going to solve this.
 
Blue Maverick said:
For the past 6/8 months my back has been getting steadily worse, I’ve had X-rays and been to see the “experts” diagnosed with degenerative arthritis of the spine and this is leading to really bad sciatica sometimes right leg sometimes left. I do lots of stretching now, lots of waking with my dog, however it’s the pain management I’m struggling with today I’ve had to take 800mg of ibuprofen, not ideal but needs must. Does anyone have any tips, im looking at going down the massage route but people are going on about CBD oil etc.
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Years if not decades in the making this!

Slouching on chairs, lying down flat on your back in bed, not picking things up properly, tight hamstrings, tight lower back, tight piriformis, weak abs, weak quads, weak hip flexors, lack of stretching, lack of strengthening of muscles, imbalanced pelvic tilt, injuries… over many years all contribute to this.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Years if not decades in the making this!

Slouching on chairs, lying down flat on your back in bed, not picking things up properly, tight hamstrings, tight lower back, tight piriformis, weak abs, weak quads, weak hip flexors, lack of stretching, lack of strengthening of muscles, imbalanced pelvic tilt, injuries… over many years all contribute to this.
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Thank Dr Phil, also bad football injury and the job are not conducive to helping either.
 
i can only add to the thread with my experience,keep off Tramadol infact keep off any prescription pain relief if you can, one day it just came and at the peak i couldnt even climb the stairs then one day some 10 years down the road i got up one morning and it took me two hours to realise the pain was no longer with me,it had gone and has not retured 15 years on
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Years if not decades in the making this!

Slouching on chairs, lying down flat on your back in bed, not picking things up properly, tight hamstrings, tight lower back, tight piriformis, weak abs, weak quads, weak hip flexors, lack of stretching, lack of strengthening of muscles, imbalanced pelvic tilt, injuries… over many years all contribute to this.
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Jumping off wardrobes in a batman suit and being tied up and spanked/pissed on will also have taken its toll over the years.
 
Blue Maverick said:
For the past 6/8 months my back has been getting steadily worse, I’ve had X-rays and been to see the “experts” diagnosed with degenerative arthritis of the spine and this is leading to really bad sciatica sometimes right leg sometimes left. I do lots of stretching now, lots of waking with my dog, however it’s the pain management I’m struggling with today I’ve had to take 800mg of ibuprofen, not ideal but needs must. Does anyone have any tips, im looking at going down the massage route but people are going on about CBD oil etc.
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I think the best advice would be to contact some PL goalies. Everyone I've seen at The Etihad this season seems to be suffering from something similar. I expected the Brighton keeper to appear in the second half with a walking stick or a zimmer frame. He was shuffling about, collecting the ball, as though he was experiencing a bout of rheumatoid arthritis.
 
Bit of an update, had an MRI scan two weeks ago got told it takes 2 weeks to get results phoned up today and was told it’s 10 weeks! The NHS is fucked, blaming an IT failure yet again. I’m on a Gabipentin 2700mgs a day now, I feel like a smack head half the time and im still in pain, looks like I’m retiring on the sick, not the way I wanted to finish my career.
I’ve paid for 35 years into the shit show the one time I really need it and it’s failing me :( looks like I’ll end up going private if I need an operation as I reckon the wait will be years.
Im afraid the NHS is not fit for purpose now and something needs sorting people will be dying needlessly.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Bit of an update, had an MRI scan two weeks ago got told it takes 2 weeks to get results phoned up today and was told it’s 10 weeks! The NHS is fucked, blaming an IT failure yet again. I’m on a Gabipentin 2700mgs a day now, I feel like a smack head half the time and im still in pain, looks like I’m retiring on the sick, not the way I wanted to finish my career.
I’ve paid for 35 years into the shit show the one time I really need it and it’s failing me :( looks like I’ll end up going private if I need an operation as I reckon the wait will be years.
Im afraid the NHS is not fit for purpose now and something needs sorting people will be dying needlessly.
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@Blue Maverick: who has mentioned an operation? Your first port of call must/should be physiotherapy. The NHS on Trafford are brilliant. Despite my Mri showing problems with 3 vertabrae, the clowns, sorry specialt neurologist and others decided it was migraines. Luckily a few days later I saw the head honcho at Trafford.
Sciatica is just another word for stenosis or in my case Severe Bilateral Forminal Narrowing. Different names but same thing.

Get physio, even if you have to pay but get a good one.
 
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