... sciatica. I've been suffering for over 3 weeks now and I'm in absolute misery. Please help, I can't take this pain anymore
I can't take this pain anymore. I've had lower back pain for years, but this is my first bout with?
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- 26 Nov 2010 by andreame6
- Updated
- 28 Nov 2010
- Topics
- pain, back pain, sciatica
Responses (5)
I have the same problem and along with pain medication, i take a belt or rope and step on it in a standing position, holding on to the ends in my hand. Then i pull the rope up stretching the leg out straight as far as i can go. What it does is stretches out the nerve so it's not all cramped up. I'll bet your pain goes all the way down to your feet and feels like it's on fire like mine does. Also, ibuprofen helps more than any non narcotic pain killers.
If you just stay with the great people here, u will get some of the best people letting you know your not alone! Many great answers for when you have a question, but the for the most part you are deffinetly in real pain, and it sucks! How long has it been since you've been to the doctor for your back pain? How do u know that you haven't got something else going on in your lower lumbar area, or a nerve impendgement,or many other possibility's! You obviousley need a new mri, and start getting some pain meds to help you! There is no since of being in so much pain! You are the only 1 that can make a choice to do something about it from here! I think you need to go to the ER since its Friday, and let them get you on sum pain meds, and sum muscle relaxers to help you get comfortable again! They will also give you sum type of steroid for the inflamation that's going on.
Sciatica is a tricky thing. The thing is to find the source of the pain which you may not be able to do on your own. If you are not able to get relief with any of the over the counter medications (Advil, Aleve) in a reseasonable amount of time and have had no luck with ice, heat of trying any of the exercises that you were givin in the past, then I would suggest calling your doctor or going to the ER (if you can't wait until Monday). Sciatic pain can come from the nerve impingement from the disc, the bones or even from muscle (common when the piriformis muscle in your buttocks spasms and compresses the sciatic nerve which can run under or through the muscle). If you also have pain in your buttocks from the piriformis muscle in spasm, try stretching the muscle, (look up a stretch online, I really can't effectively explain a stretch and you will find plenty of sites that will give you a good picture to help you).

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