can often be caused by your diet
friend of mine had it so bad she was bedridden, turned out she had wheat intolerance & once she cut it out of her diet, she slowly got better.
Mine's treated with very strong anti-inflamatory pain killers (diclofenac) prescribed by my doctor. Actually, the prescription is for my gout but diclofenac cures all ills.
Had this about thirteen years ago and still have to be careful!
As far as I can recall it's caused by pressure of some kind on one of the sciatic nerves - which run from the lower spinal cord down to each ankle. This usually causes continual pain - sometimes excruciating shooting pains - right down from the back to the bottom of the leg. I think in most cases it is as a result of a herniated disc (slipped disc) where the outer casing of the disc splits allowing the rupture to press on the sciatic nerve which runs alongside.
The usual treatment is rest (where possible), anti-inflammatory drugs and strong painkillers. In some extreme cases surgery may be necessary but is not always successful.
Mine finally went away on its own after about three months and apart from the odd twinge it's been ok but I think once you have had this problem you will always have to be careful with lifting and suchlike.
Yeah I tried acupuncture, osteopath and chiropractor but didn't help - if anything the osteopathy made it worse - that was like torture! Might work for some as it probably depends on the root cause.
I had co-proxamol painkillers and they barely held the pain back most of the time. I know that there is disagreement about rest or otherwise these days. At one time rest for a few days was always recommended for any back pain but modern thinking is that it is better to keep it exercised to some degree but that takes some doing when you are in such pain that you can barely walk at times!
Try an orthopaedic mattress or put a board under your current one as keeping the spine as straight as possible usually helps too. I used to spend a lot of time lying on the floor as well as I couldn't get comfortable sitting in a chair.
I was diagnosed with Sciatica (had back problems for the last 8 months) - but it turns out to be a muslce problem that causes my pevis to tilt and then cause back and leg pain....i've seen a Chiropractor, and have to say it has done me the world of good...my old man sees a Chropractor also for his Sciatica and it always seems to help
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friend of mine had it so bad she was bedridden, turned out she had wheat intolerance & once she cut it out of her diet, she slowly got better.
You need to paint green and white hoops over the affected areas.
;-)
As far as I can recall it's caused by pressure of some kind on one of the sciatic nerves - which run from the lower spinal cord down to each ankle. This usually causes continual pain - sometimes excruciating shooting pains - right down from the back to the bottom of the leg. I think in most cases it is as a result of a herniated disc (slipped disc) where the outer casing of the disc splits allowing the rupture to press on the sciatic nerve which runs alongside.
The usual treatment is rest (where possible), anti-inflammatory drugs and strong painkillers. In some extreme cases surgery may be necessary but is not always successful.
Mine finally went away on its own after about three months and apart from the odd twinge it's been ok but I think once you have had this problem you will always have to be careful with lifting and suchlike.
Hope that helps!
http://www.medinfo.co.uk/conditions/sciatica.html
I'll give the green and grey hoops a miss though...
what part of the leg are you getting the pain ?
Latimer will probably do you a good deal ;-)
I had co-proxamol painkillers and they barely held the pain back most of the time. I know that there is disagreement about rest or otherwise these days. At one time rest for a few days was always recommended for any back pain but modern thinking is that it is better to keep it exercised to some degree but that takes some doing when you are in such pain that you can barely walk at times!
Try an orthopaedic mattress or put a board under your current one as keeping the spine as straight as possible usually helps too. I used to spend a lot of time lying on the floor as well as I couldn't get comfortable sitting in a chair.
Walked around Grennwich park yesterday, bloody knackered me out...
How ironic that you get a pain in the a**e...
;-)