Feel My Pain - Sciatica

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

Ouch, feels like someone's continuously dead legging me. Can't walk (tried the paper shop yesterday, got there and had to ring Mrs Noise to come and get me!), can't stand or sit on most chairs, pain gets worse.

Only places I can get comfortable are in bed on my side or (oddly) in the front seats of the Jazz and this despite pain killers.

Earliest doctors appointment?
Tomorrow 17:20.
He's not going to give me an instant cure either,

Ouch,
Jet

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

thanks for the pointers.

No I don't suffer from this a lot (thank goodness).
I had a very mild bout 25 years ago - IIRC it got better of its own accord. This occurrence is hugely worse.

I'm taking Ibuprofen.

Where do you ice? The pain is mostly back of my thigh but I don't (yet) know where the nerve is actually being trapped - isn't this where the ice needs to go?

regards,
Jet

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

yes I do have my wallet in a back pocket but then I always have.
I can't think of any specific recent event that might be a trigger.

I have had mild back pain off and on for many years - always caused by lifting something with my body twisted left/right at the waist. Sometimes not very much can trigger this. Usually I lift properly but every now and then forget.
It always lasts a few day and gets better on its own provided I avoid lifting. It has never mutated into sciatica.
The last occasion was maybe 6 weeks ago.

Today's sciatica started maybe 3 weeks ago fairly mildly and has steadily got worse with a step on Saturday to the can't walk/sit stage and when I began painkillers and booked a doctors appointment,

regards,
Jet

[jet_noise]

Dear db,

db said:

... DO NOT use breast stoke

Hee hee, he said breast,

regards,
a childish and spaced Jet

- little sleep last night, toss, turn, move, pain subsides, ahh, relax and arrgh blam back it comes. Not good.
At least I can still drive although even that is getting uncomfortable. Not looking forward to the next few days.

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

thanks for the further pain sharing

Doc. prescribed co-codamol which helps but makes me feel so weird I have only taken it thrice so far.
I managed to clean a car yesterday having taken one. Got to the leathering down stage before the pain came back.
I have taken my wallet and keys out of back pockets. I'm doing some internet-found exercises when I can.
Sleeping is usually possible on my side.
It's bloody boring though not being able to walk anywhere or sit for long enough to watch some decent telly - I'll have a go at the GP later though and have managed to avoid the result so far ,

regards,
Jet