Sciatic nerve

[jimson]

G'day viewers, I've been suffering for years with this and I'm going to physio on Tuesday this coming week & was wondering if anyone on here has any experience with this and how did you deal with it ? I can't ride a motor bike as it takes over my right leg and the pain is farrrrrk'n uncomfortable. I rode a motorbike back from Sydney a while back when I arrived home I had to put the stand down and just fall of the side of the bike as I couldn't lift my leg or put weight on it. jimson

[David Lahey]

Yes, when I was in my 30s. It was terrible all right. I used to go to a therapist called Charles Angles or Angels at Alexandra Hills in Brissy who used to push it back into its groove which was fairly painful at the time but did work for a while each time. I eventually stopped having sciatic nerve problems.

[David Lahey]

Wow I just looked and Charles is still in business after all these years https://www.facebook.com/pages/Charles-Angles/535811356437359

[John Orchard]

I have it down both legs, homone treatment & anti-inflammatories have the pain reduced at the moment, l went to one of Victoria's top back surgeons (David De La Harpe) and pushed him to do an mri, we found the 'nerve impegement' between a couple of vertibra.

David says a simple operation to trim back the opening where the nerve exits the spine, he says l'll walk out the hospital the same day.

I just have to book in for the op now.

[80-85 husky]

ridden bikes since i was 13 and no dramas, bit of a dodgy knee and some minor hip soreness (old man has had three hips replaced).

three years ago, the wife bought a "clip clop" and we were leaving to go on holis and i had to drop off a round bale of hay for it and it landed on its side in the wrong spot... so i got a crow bar and got it back on its edge and rolled it into a "better spot". During that exercise something went pop in my lower back and ive had all sorts of constant but mild pain since. Bloody clip clop! they are dangerous!

when it gets bad i get the shooting pain down my left leg. the best cure i have found is riding the dirt bike. the exercise of the movement to stay upright keeps the side muscles tight and strong and this supports the weak disc area. a pushy can be a great help too.

i rode the Harrow event recently and have been pain free since but i can feel it creeping in as ive been on the computer since. i guess i will have to go and get it mri'd one day and hopefully there is a simple outcome.

[Wasp]

So far I had 5 Operations at different levels and places .( Canal enlargements , laminectomy ,discectomy and some general trimming each time at different levels  ) They all helped. Make fusion the absolute last option. It is irreversible and may not always help . Like they say , chasing wealth with your health when young, means chasing your health with your wealth when you are old . So true .Riding those chrome trolleys with 4 inch Bilsteins certainly didn't help.

[fred99999au]

I had a disc prolapse at L4-L5 many years ago and this gave  me grief for ages. Regular massage then merged into strength training and I have no issues now.

I spent 6 week flat on my back after the prolapse, was eating panadeine forte like smarties, and when they said "avoid alcohol, it will make you sleepy" well, that was what I craved. Sleep through alcohol.

Not much recollection of that period except that it hurt a bloody lot.

[jimson]

G'day viewers and thanks for all the feed back, so happy its not a op situation. It appears I have a tight butt lol the bum cheek muscle is strangling the siatic nerve. I've been given some stretches to release the tension and been told not to try so hard lol
30 years of on & off pain and its down to stretching. farrrrrk'n hopefully this is the go, as it'll be nice to find some normality in the body's movement's. jimson

[John Orchard]

G'day viewers and thanks for all the feed back, so happy its not a op situation. It appears I have a tight butt lol the bum cheek muscle is strangling the siatic nerve. I've been given some stretches to release the tension and been told not to try so hard lol
30 years of on & off pain and its down to stretching. farrrrrk'n hopefully this is the go, as it'll be nice to find some normality in the body's movement's. jimson

So you're a 'tight arse'  ;-)

[jimson]

Yeah, I'm so tight I have compression seizures lol jimson

[kdx Geoff]

G'day viewers and thanks for all the feed back, so happy its not a op situation. It appears I have a tight butt lol the bum cheek muscle is strangling the siatic nerve. I've been given some stretches to release the tension and been told not to try so hard lol
30 years of on & off pain and its down to stretching. farrrrrk'n hopefully this is the go, as it'll be nice to find some normality in the body's movement's. jimson

Same issue in my right leg glute area.

Same diagnosis.

Stretching fixes it, and sometimes I pay a massage person to do it and although it hurts and they tell me to be quiet  , it helps a lot.

[the stig]

     I had  this a couple of month ago  Left Cheek Pain like Buggery down the Leg.
     when to the physio he said stretch it and Soak it in a Hot bath and massage
     your butt while your in the tub got over it in a couple of weeks
     The Stig

[pokey]

longest nerve in the body, goes all the way to the big toe and  if you pinch it when it exits the spine,, yeah.
 I have a back swing that's brilliant, those things you lay on and get turned upside down, This takes the weight off your spine and  stretches the joints just a little but enough to stop the pinch.

There are a few exercises like right knee left shoulder  but only a few days after the initial injury as the tissue needs time to relax and the swelling to subside. Voltarin is pretty good too.

[jimson]

Yeah pokey, I've made a gantry for lifting truck body's and engines and thought about hanging upside down from that to release the pressure, but knowing my luck I'd get stuck upside down in the shed and no one would hear me yelling lol jimson

[John Orchard]

Yeah pokey, I've made a gantry for lifting truck body's and engines and thought about hanging upside down from that to release the pressure, but knowing my luck I'd get stuck upside down in the shed and no one would hear me yelling lol jimson

I was thinking about hanging upside down, read that blood rush to the brain is not so good for you. I bought a back stretcher off ebay, cost about $100 from China, seems to help.