bruuuno 12:31 Sun Sep 18
Sciatica
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Morning chaps if any of you are sufferers what have yi found that eases it? I love swimming (breaststoke) but I get the feeling it doesn't do it much good. I'm guessing walking long distance makes it worse too? Doctors and physios I have found to be pretty useless. Am considering acupuncture.
Regards
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Takashi Miike
12:33 Sun Sep 18
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i'll whomail you an exercise that I got from old west ham physio Rob Jenkins and it's always worked for me when the symptoms return
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Tomshardware
12:35 Sun Sep 18
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Yoga can help Sciatica.
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bruuuno
12:38 Sun Sep 18
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Cheers miike - I once did some landscaping work on robs garden funnily enough
Cheers tom - I've been practising yoga but it doesn't seem to e helping much, i think its cos its early days.I suspect I just need to be patient but patients is a virtue I don't possess!
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ted fenton
12:48 Sun Sep 18
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I've suffered with my back for years I don't think being a Newsagent helped but I can't get of my sciatica it has ruined two good holidays for me this year and stops me from playing golf gardening etc.,
I've also done 2 discs and have spondylosis so no operation just pain relief.
My doctor at the moment is being really good and has started me on a new course of meds.
BuTrans 5mcg patch's these stay on for a week and are an opiate so goes well with Merlot.
Amitriptyline 10 mg which is an old antidepressant pill now used in pain relief ( I'm sleeping like a baby)
Naproxen 250 mg
I've been on these just over two weeks now and I'm still in pain so will see the doc next week.
I feel for anyone with this and for me now being retired I should be enjoying life so let's hope we all get sorted.
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The Cult Of Bob
1:04 Sun Sep 18
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The last time I had an attack was approx 7 years ago. Funnily enough I was with Defjam at the time who told me to 'stop walking like a cripple'.
Touch wood haven't had any trouble since then due to some lifestyle adjustments. Or his words served as motivation. Probably the former though.
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theaxeman
1:16 Sun Sep 18
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Worst pain i have had absolutely crippling and was only eased by diazipam. What worked best for me after it was better was Pilates, strengthening the core to support the back. Played another 4 years of football and haven't had a problem since.
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Basildon-iron
1:20 Sun Sep 18
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Horrible thing to deal with, I'm currently a couple of weeks in after my 3rd operation on the discs in my back due to 2 ruptures which also led to some sciatic issues. Just last week I had the nerves killed off in my lower back as they were so damaged from the years of trauma.
I agree that swimming can make it worse if you do breaststroke because there will be an arch in your back from where you are going up and down for air. What you want to do is either backstroke so your body is perfectly aligned or front crawl but ensure you twist your whole upper body to the side when breathing for air to take the pressure off your neck!
I'm currently on a mixture of diazepam (10mg twice daily) codeine (60mg twice daily) and tramadol (100mg twice daily) for pain relief and etoxib (90mg once daily) for the anti inflammatory.
I also take amytriptyline like ted but that's at 60mg daily and that is for migraine.
I've always found that the more activity I can do the better and it starts to ease once I've been walking for a while, the issue I have is in work I'm office based but up and down frequently from my desk and it is this bending/straightening motion that causes me most pain.
Daily stretching of the hamstrings and glutes has helped me a great deal, usually 10 mins in the morning and 10 mins in the evening!
I really hope you can get the pain under control as at its worse I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy
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zico
1:24 Sun Sep 18
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I used to suffer with it during my football days and tried pretty much everything. Went to a Kinesiologist and he diagnosed me with quite short hamstrings. Couple of sessions with him and I haven't really suffered since.
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Gavros
1:30 Sun Sep 18
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Spent a couple of years with this. Loads of acupuncture and all that shit. Turned out a course of strong anti inflammatoris dislodged the nerve from where it was stuck.
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ted fenton
1:34 Sun Sep 18
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My worse situation is standing (So I need to know where to sit at Stratford :-) ) preparing meals shopping kill me.
Friday night at the Hammers Heroes I just had to sit down !!!
Fecking nightmare.
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JayeMPee
1:55 Sun Sep 18
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Have it in my right thigh and it flairs when playing tennis. I find that putting my weight on the net post and swinging the right leg back and forth, particularly back, helps a lot. Like what the players do when warming up before the game, they each put weight on another players shoulder and swing in tandem, but in opposite directions!
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Takashi Miike
2:02 Sun Sep 18
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jaye, what you said about the leg going back ties in with the exercise I sent brunooo
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Bungo
2:02 Sun Sep 18
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ted fenton 12:48 Sun Sep 18
The good news is that 5mcg is the lowest dose of BuTrans available, so plenty of scope for higher doses (there's a 10mcg and a 20mcg) which will hopefully bring the pain under control if prescribed.
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ted fenton
2:08 Sun Sep 18
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Yes I saw that Bungo
Hate taking meds but enough is enough.
Cheers.
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bruuuno
2:09 Sun Sep 18
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Thanks very much for all the detailed responses. I have found that if I take a couple of diazepam before bed its easier the next day.
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defjam
2:11 Sun Sep 18
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The Cult Of Bob 1:04 - I like to think i played my part!
It might be less than 7 years though?
My worst attack was about 7/8 years ago, started on a Boxing Day as i was on my way to a home game, i drove about 5 minutes then the pain was so intense i had to turn the car around and drive home.
I ended up laid up for months, seeing as i was used to pain as i've had it all my life i thought i could handle it but this was something else, it used to take me 10/15 minutes to crawl to the toilet then be in tears of pain when i actually got there.
I had numerous physios round my house, had mates carry me to their cars then drive me to physio for months.
Had mates do my shopping etc as i couldn't leave the house.
In the end i found a guy who did acunpuncture and manipulation and he sorted me out.
Took ages of walking with crutches then trying to walk again.
The guy i see is based in essex but comes to KENT once a week.
Good luck with it though, you have my sympathies.
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Takashi Miike
2:19 Sun Sep 18
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I've been through that. agony just getting to the toilet, then the ordeal of getting on and off the toilet seat, topped off with getting either back to the bed/floor or back downstairs. fucking nightmare
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Roby
2:20 Sun Sep 18
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I was tearing up some carpet and underlay from the main bedroom a couple of years ago and it wasn't at all heavy work but my lower back just went and although I didn't get it diagnosed I think I slipped a disc.
Basically got stuck hunched over and couldn't breathe properly and was in a panic. My mate sort of helped me up but I was hobbling around for a few days and even trying to squat down on the bog was almost impossible.
It went away on its own but comes back out of the blue every so often - it seems like my lower back just above the arse is too tight and has no mobility / flexibility?
I'm also suprised how many people you speak to who say they have NEVER had back problems? I'd have thought it happened to everyone at some point.
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bruuuno
2:20 Sun Sep 18
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The driving thing sounds familiar def - this week I spent the whole hours drive to work just going AAARGH and writhing around, anyone who saw must have thought I was mental. Staggered in to work, told them I was going home and spent the next hour doing the same!
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defjam
2:24 Sun Sep 18
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Takashi Miike 2:19 - Luckily i lived in a bungalow at the time!
Fuck knows what i would have done if i lived in a house with a bathroom on a different floor.
Shit and piss myself regularly probably! :-(
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