Guest guest Posted September 11, 2005 Report Share Posted September 11, 2005 , Thank you for the suggestion and your experience. I will try it and see how it works. Blessings, Walcott <BAJEKAT@...> wrote: >Subject: Sciatic Nerve Is Back>This week hasn't been good for me. I've been dealing with pain in my right >thigh for the past week. I've had this problem before and it wasn't bad. It >would come and go but now it's gotten worst. Lie on my back and I get pain, >Lie on my stomuch and I get pain, Lie on the leg itself and I get pain. I'm >currently waiting till 1pm (pst) to make a doctors appointment.Hi,I hope what I write may help. I had this pain in my mid-thirties. The doctor would prescribe rest and pain killers but when I lay down it hurt. Every position hurt.One day I discovered that if I lay on my side- stretched as tall as I could go. Pulled in the stomach as tight as it could go. And tightened the buns as tight as possible for a slow count of 100. And repeated it maybe five or ten times. Just concentrating on keeping the body balanced lying on my side and my stomach pulled tight and my butt and back muscles tightened the pain would fade a bit. After doing this for about half hour of holding tight for a count of hundred then barely relaxing if it is necessary but never really loosening up the muscles, I found the pain was reduced so I could get up and walk. But as I moved around I would have to keep the core muscles very tight or I would set off the pain again.My pain was wrapped around the girdle and down the leg to the knee. The doctor called it sciatica so I am guessing it might be the same problem.Inintially tightening the back muscles wold hurt but there is a way of keeping the body straight and tall and taut and one leg perfectly balanced over the other that eased the pain.Hope this helps.cathy_________________________________________________________________Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/__________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 hi, i have chronic and sometimes very acute sciatca along with lower back spasms. mine, and likely yours too, is caused by to sacral and/or lumbar disc generation. for some PA patients this is where you find the most soft tissue damage. all the best tt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Hi , I wish I had some glowing advice for you, but my experience with the pt was the same as yours. My rheumy sent me to phys. therapy just to shut me up about my lower back pain because he still extolls the fact that it is because I am overweight, not PA. The pt had me doing pelvic tilts to strengten stomach muscles. I couldn't walk for a week because of the pain it started. So, no more pt for me. My rheumy also is always telling me that my compaints are not in his specialty, or they are due to the fibromyalgia. Makes me wonder sometimes why I bother with him. A couple months ago, I went to another rheumy for a second opinion, so to speak. She as much told me I didn't even have PA, that ALL my problems were due to osteo, fibro, and in not so many word, that I was fat and lazy. I think I will just deal with my pp and leave the rheumy to watch my liver. God help us. If the docs don't kill us the insurance companies will. Of course, that's just my opinion, first and second. LOL God bless, Janet in Ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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