What is Sciatica
You may be surprised to learn that sciatica is not a spinal condition, but instead a symptom of a low back problem! Many different low back problems can cause sciatica. Sciati...
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I am new here so please forgive me if somebody's asked this before.
I have had chronic lower back pain that has made walking difficult but not agonising. It hadn't spread down my legs or anything and was centralised in my back. It went on since about March this year. Today I got out of my computer seat, bent over to pick up a box, and screamed in agony. I had the most agonising back pain in my whole life. I cannot describe it but it was very sharp and very pulsating. I couldn't move my body for five minutes. My left leg was paralysed temporarily as well while I stood in the kitchen. I was shaking as well from the pain and it was horrendous. I have had painful things in my time but nothing comes close to this. I made my way downstairs slowly to the living room where my mother has her strong dihydrocodine painkillers and took two. They are now wearing off and the pain is returning. On my way down there I couldn't put any pressure on my left leg as it sent a surge of pain up my back and I had to levitate by using the bannisters. It seemed to get better if I pushed my chest upwards. I noticed that I had a weakness in my knees and they were quite stiff before this happened, say it started last week approximately. I am aged 17 and I am often lying in very awkward positions for a long time. I don't know if my age makes a difference, but I spent a lot of time in lab stools and terrible unergonomic chairs at high school for 6 years. Combined with my odd lying positions might this have something to do with it? It is two weeks until I begin my science degree for three years so I wonder if I might have sciatica. I researched it on the web and my symptoms are quite similar. SciFly Posted on 08/10/08, 05:08 pm |
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I accidentally sent my note before it was finished! I was saying only an MRI can tell what's happening with the disks. Anyway, we're pulling for you - let us know how you're doing. In the meantime, I wouldn't do any lifting until you know what you're dealing with - take good care! 
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I have had sciatic pain for years. Not as much since my last surgery. My pain would radiate from my butt to my foot. I think that it can just raidate to your knee and just ache. To me it feels like when you go the dentist and they hit a nerve. Thats how I can describe it. I also have weakness in that leg. The calf muscle is half the size of the other. Ther surgeon said that the sciatic nerve was pinched off and other nerves were compressed. But I have had 3 fusions and 2 laminectomy. This has been a 10 year journey. I now have no feeling in the front of my leg. I wish you luck...... The best thing you can do prior to seeing the Dr. educate yourself as you r doing.
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I have seen the doctor now. He thinks that it was a pulled muscle in my back from lifting heavy things and not a trapped nerve.
He says that if it happens again I should come back to see him. This is a relief and the pain has more-or-less disappeared but I still have twinges of it now and then.
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