hooray - discharged by physio........and then!!!!

[floppsy]

Hello.

Have been making great progress with my exercises after a disc injury in Feb. So much so that last week the physio said she was happy to discharge me as my sciatica had all but dissapeared and I was in relatively little pain. All seemed great.

However, I stupidly thought I'd cut the grass of my small lawn on Sunday. I didnt think I had overdone things but on Monday morning after a hideous nights sleep it felt like I'd had seven shades of BLANK kicked out of my lower lumber and buttocks. It felt like a different pain but the sciatica is back although not quite as aggresive as before. The thing is that when I lay down, my entire lower back aches terribly as well as the sciatic nerve. The exercises the physio gave me are more painful than ever to do but they have told be to gently persevere until I can get back to see them (Aug 19th!!!!). I wondered if anyone else had been in a simialr situ? Does it sound like muscular problems to any back pain afficianados?? And can muscular probs dredge up sciatica again????

have got some co-codamol and paracetamol which takes the edge off it but come 3 or 4am when it runs out, hell do I know about it .

Any advice would be really welcome as I thought I had turned a corner



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[Juliano knd]

Hi Dan,

Thats the worst thing thing to do, hoovering and cutting the lawn are bad movements for your lower back and the nerves in that area. If you have not been using you muscles in your back then i would say that your back has tightened up which in turn will make your nerve tight. Try a nice hot bath to relax and some anti-inflamatries to reduce the nerve pain.

You need to get your back and core stronger before your start doing lots of stuff around the house.

Olli

 

[Maikeru]

hi just thought would ad my experiences of back pain and sciatica

fortunately do not suffer from these myself but have "treated" a couple of firneds with lower back aches and sciatica one of them rang me saying hehad had sciatica pain for 4 days and not been able to sleep. iinvited him over fora treatment session did one of my combined hterapy mixes on him using reiki magent therapy and massage worked on his lower back upper thighs and down to the knees for about 1 =1/4 hours...

He rang me next day and said he had had a great nights sleep with no pain or discomfort saw him again a few weeks later and he said that he had had no reccurrence of the sciatica....

other guy came to see me on recommendation of a friend had such bad lower back pain he couldn't even manage to walk to the local pub...

he toka bit more to sort but after 3 sessions he went off for a 6 weeek holiday and came back and said he had had no problems at al whilst he ws away

hope this is of some help....

Steve

 

[pweioupxibpiduegt]

Hiya Dan

I can really sympathise with you because I something similar happened to me, but to a much lesser extent. I had sciatica for about 12 months, which came about after weeding my garden. Some of the weeds were actually small tree seedlings (grrh!!) and therefore quite resistant, so it was very hard work. The next day my back had seized up really badly and I was walking around all bent up, like a very old lady. The doctor's treatment was hopeless, so in the end I found a very good chiropracter, and that's when my recovery started, after quite a number of weeks though. I think it was the ultrasound treatment the chiro did that really cured it.

However, I made the mistake of thinking I was 'cured' and did some gardening and lifting, and back came the sciatica. So I took myself off to the chiro again and was in tears there, thinking I was back to square one again. But luckily the chiro assured me that it was only a temporary setback this time, and she was right, thank goodness. Just a few more treatments and I was OK again. So now, I am very, very careful what I do, and touch wood have been fine since. But I will never ever forget the pain of the sciatica. I was very miserable with it.

I hope that yours is only a temporary setback as well. If I feel a 'twinge', then I do my stretching exercises again and am fine. I hope you will feel better soon Dan and will alsosend you some Reiki healing for this, over the miles.
Tke care 'n
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Moonfairy
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