Re: Sciatica Anyone?
[Re: Kev56]
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11/27/21 09:04 AM
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Stretch, stretch and stretch. Advil. Dr is probably going to prescribe Gabapentin. Take it so you can sleep.
Practice the”No BLT”, even the days you start feeling better, a minimum 6 months starting when you feel normal. If you don’t, you will suffer setbacks.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 09:24 AM
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Im Stretch, stretch and stretch. Advil. Dr is probably going to prescribe Gabapentin. Take it so you can sleep.
Practice the”No BLT”, even the days you start feeling better, a minimum 6 months starting when you feel normal. If you don’t, you will suffer setbacks. Streching really helped me. I could not get out of bed after 4 or 5 attempts I would make it. Sometimes... after streching i got so i could roll over and even get up slowly and even walk with two walking sticks. In w few days i was taking a stick as a precaution. Today no stick so far just watching how i move. Untill i forget then i get a painfull reminder.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
[Re: Kev56]
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11/27/21 10:22 AM
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Been layed up with a bad back for five months or more. Nothing has helped me yet.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
[Re: Kev56]
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11/27/21 11:10 AM
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I've have spondylolisthesis, which is a lower back issue. One of the side effects is sciatica. In 06, I went thru a summer from (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). I found the sciatica to be way more irritating than the back pain itself. There is no way to get comfortable to ease the irritation. I was given different pain meds, but none of them did a thing for me except make me feel loopy, which I didnt like. Two steroid injections in my lower back did nothing either. Finally my Dr sent me to a surgeon. The surgeon was booked out 1 1/2 months and in the mean time my back and leg pain was almost normal again. I finally saw the surgeon and he recommended another steroid injection when my back goes out again. I told him I already had two different injections with no results. He said this time he will order the shot to be given in a different spot. Fast forward a month or so when my back and leg pain showed up again. I went to get the injection, they asked me if I wanted to be put under. I laughed and said I already had 2 injections and never felt the needle since they always numb the area. A little Asian Dr comes in and says your going to feel a little pressure. Holy balls, I never felt pain like that in my life. He must have hit the bullseye dead center on a nerve. I could feel the pain all of the way to my toes, I would have sworn my foot lit up like a flashlight. Then he said one more time!! As painful as that ordeal was, it worked like a charm. I could immediately see a difference in the recovery room as the medication wore off. Fast forward 15 yrs later and my back and leg pain is virtually nonexistent. On paper, my lower back is shot. In reality I feel normal and I'm not limited in anything I do. I work construction, cut wood, etc and everything else the rest us "real men" do. I do try and stay limber, I generally run couple miles every morning, but lately I'm slipping a bit as winter is creeping into the area. But I've been cutting firewood for the past week so I feel its a trade-off. I'm a believer is the steroid injection 100%, IF they put it in the correct spot. Again, my first two infections were a waste of time and money. Ask for the painful one
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
[Re: Kev56]
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11/27/21 12:49 PM
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Heck I woke up with it about three days ago. I don't even know what kicked it off. Price of getting old I guess. Rice bag and some easy stretching, little ibuprofen and hopefully be good to go in a couple of days.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 01:03 PM
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Stretch, stretch and stretch. Advil. Dr is probably going to prescribe Gabapentin. Take it so you can sleep.
Practice the”No BLT”, even the days you start feeling better, a minimum 6 months starting when you feel normal. If you don’t, you will suffer setbacks. Now we're supposed to take gabapentin for a sleeping cure to ? No. The Gabapentin is for nerve pain. It will allow you to sleep, It doesn’t put you to sleep. Yes, be mindful of the side affects. I’ve only experienced “the spin” once. It’s a pain med that has virtually zero impairment. I’ve taken as much as 600mg three times a day. When I no longer needed it, I just stopped taking it with no ill affects or craving.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 02:48 PM
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Sit-ups with knees bent. Teeter inversion table. I went through years of lower back pain. Degenerate disk disease. When I start to feel the tightness I put my toes under the couch with my but as close to my heels as possible cross my arms across my chest tuck my chin and fall back stopping the fall just before my shoulders hit the floor I can feel and hear five or six vertebrae pop back where they belong then a dozen regular sit ups pain is gone and away I go.
A nerosurgeon is who told me about the sit-ups. The abdominal muscles are the “gye-wires” for the spine
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 09:25 PM
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Just a heads-up, my sciatica problems started about 25 years ago when pulling trap stakes out while bent over then straighten up pulling with my back. I learned my lesson the hard way and use drags when possible.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 09:57 PM
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Chiropractor and biofreeze helps me a lot. The biofreeze can get at wally world.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 10:21 PM
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I had a bout a few yrs back, mid 30s. MRI showed bulging discs. Tuffed it out about 3 yrs before I went for steroid injections. It started one day pulling trap stakes out of a hard creekbed. I had a lightning strike feeling down back and legs. Thought I hit an underground powerline. What really helped me after the shots was 1: not lifting stupid amounts of stuff on the farm 2: keep good cushioned seats on equipment 3: walking keeps me loose.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 10:36 PM
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yes 4 full ruptures to initially get the pressure off traction a few times , they hook you up to a winch and pull you apart with 1/2 your body weight.
walking 20 minutes a day on the tread mill 3% incline minimum , warms you up stretches you out , then stretching
this is going to sound strange , best thing I did was start standing I work a desk job and am active when not at my desk but that is my time and not the 40-50 hours a week at my desk
I have a stool for when I need to set down but stand most of the time
it builds the core muscles
more muscle = less reliance on the disks to support the bone structure = less pinched nerves
build the core muscles and enjoy so much less pain , there are still days but they are days and not weeks
stretch and keep warm that might mean you stay close to sweating all day
there are ball excersizes you can do to build core once you stop hurting.
Last edited by GREENCOUNTYPETE; 11/27/21 10:43 PM.
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Re: Sciatica Anyone?
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11/27/21 10:54 PM
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Back your butt up to a table of anything butt high. Cross your arms ,keep legs straight up n down and start leaning backwards (slowly) bit at a time. It may hurt bad at first but keep on. Really stretches the back. I discovered this on my own when mine flaired up.
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