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Sciatica is the name given to any sort of pain that is caused by irritation or compression of the sciatic nerve.
The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It runs from the back of your pelvis, through your buttocks, and all the way down both legs, ending at your feet.
Signs and symptoms
When the sciatic nerve is compressed or irritated, it can cause pain, numbness and a tingling sensation that radiates from your lower back and travels down one of your legs to your foot and toes.
The pain can range from being mild to very painful, and may be made worse by sneezing, coughing, or sitting for a long period of time.
Some people with sciatica may also experience muscle weakness in the affected leg.
While people with sciatica can also have general back pain, the pain associated with sciatica usually affects the buttocks and legs much more than the back.
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The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It runs from the back of your pelvis, through your buttocks, and all the way down both legs, ending at your feet.
Signs and symptoms
When the sciatic nerve is compressed or irritated, it can cause pain, numbness and a tingling sensation that radiates from your lower back and travels down one of your legs to your foot and toes.
The pain can range from being mild to very painful, and may be made worse by sneezing, coughing, or sitting for a long period of time.
Some people with sciatica may also experience muscle weakness in the affected leg.
While people with sciatica can also have general back pain, the pain associated with sciatica usually affects the buttocks and legs much more than the back.
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In terms of pain relief, sometimes ibuprofen gel 10% on lower back helps but so so. The following devils claw gel also helps as more natural pain relief, if anyone finds it useful :
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When it first happened, walking would send shooting pains up my spine, I could barely tie my own shoes and I'd wake up several times a night with lightning pain up the back of my legs.
Just in case it helps someone - here's what worked best for me:
1. Initially: Physiotherapy if walking isn't painful or Hydrotherapy if walking is painful. If you can afford to go private getting seen sooner is better - I faced a 3 month wait on NHS or £50 a session for 3 sessions. You'll lose strength and stiffen if you wait too long for treatment, which can make recovery longer.
2. If you don't already have some, get shoes with a cushioned heel or alternatively cushioned insoles. This will significantly reduce the impact transferred to your spine when walking.
3. Daily walking and/or swimming. Try to do as much as you can reasonably commit to. I was doing 5K steps a day back then though now just do whatever I can fit into an hour.
4. Swapping to an anti-inflammatory diet/losing weight. I can't say for certain whether it was the diet itself or the weight loss that coincided with it but I saw a significant reduction in pain from this.
Nowadays I am am closer to 85kg. I still do the exercises I was advised to do at physio (back in 2020) daily - the nerve stretching others have mentioned is one of them. Crucially I am rarely limited by my back - it can get better but will take time.
A neurosurgeon who performed surgery on nerve entrapments told me that the nerves of those who suffered with nerve entrapments appear no more tortured and twisted and troubled than those who reported no such complaint during their lifetime. So what else might be going on he pondered? He still did the surgeries though.
I've had serious pain due to nerve damage because of compressed discs in my neck for over 20 years.
Only thing that helps is Gabapentin and Chiropractic treatment (when needed)
Physio a complete waste of time. (edited)
It's a long story but I'll try and TLDR it..
A handful of years ago I started with sciatica, was doing physio once a week & my own stretches daily as told to.
It was getting better over 3 months then one night getting into bed BOOOOM A pain that made the very painful sciatica feel like a tickle shot up my leg into my lower back and had me writhing in agony on the floor, crying, screaming the lot, it took the paramedics hours to be able to move me after lots of gas & morphine (I'd blacked out I only know this from my Mrs)
I was Tret like utter crap in A&E & sent home in a taxi with tramadol, I was unable to move for 4 days so ended up back in hospital, given the mri I begged for in the first place.
Next thing I'm surrounded by a group of doctors with notepads and being told that the disc had actually exploded into my spinal cord (they usually reabsorb over time mine went the other way) anyway I'm told it's called cauda equina syndrome and I'm effectively paralysed waist down and they want to operate right away to try and save as much as possible.
I was still 3/4 paralysed (legs,feet,bladder & bowels) after the op managed to regain another 20%? With lots of work but I'm left still now unavle to walk without sticks & orthotic help, B&B are both.. Interesting and tbf it's ruined my life, I used to walk miles most days, cycle, play golf go to gym.
I was 37 years old in decent shape (bit on the chubby side)
Basically please look up the red flags for cauda equina syndrome it's a million too one to happen apparently but I wouldn't want anyone to go through this. I'm in agony most days, on silly amount of medication & have to stick tubes in places you don't want to know.
For anyone unsure see urgent medical attention if you get the following symptoms;
eoemskservice.nhs.uk/doc…9_6
Otherwise everything else everyone is commenting is probably right about different treatments being right for what is perceived as a similar issue as everyone has different pain drivers, a good physio will try to explore yours and not just give the same treatment to everyone with “sciatica” I hate theword as it’s an umbrella term