I have sciatic and am in considerable discomfort. Does anyone have suggestions! I am going to p.t. 1 a week but is not a continuous improvement.
good 1day bad the next. My tkr went great. Don't think I will be anxious to do the other one. I will wait as long as I can because of the sciatic .
Is it sciatica, or the hamstrings? I was nearly crazy in pain and my physio examined it and said it was the hamstrings. She booked me in with the massage therapist for 1 hr the first week an 1/2 hr a week after that. I got amazing relief after the first day. I read somewhere to elevate your feet really high like 10 inches or more high and lie back and relax for 10 min. It hurts but it is great for the sciatica and hamstrings. Soak in the tub in water as hot as you can stand with two cups of Epson salts. This will give you some relief. Oh and another thing, take a tennis ball and get someone to roll it over and over the sore spot to break down the muscle, or if you can put the ball on the dot and move up and down the wall if you can bend. Good luck. I feel your pain.
Thanks for your quick response, I will give the tennis ball a try and look in a message therapist.
Also the surgeon said it was sciatica, so I am taking it from there. It just seems I get relief and then it comes back.
I also havae been so nauseated so I stopped all meds. I was taking oxycod 2 at night only, cut to 1 and now after 2 days I am off all, decided to do it cold turkey. so the nausea has improved but still have a little now and then, don't know how long it takes to get out of your system since I was on it for 5 wks.
I also had sciatica after my op....the GP prescribed amatripyline which is used for nerve pain and isn't opioid based so doesn't nauseate. You take them at night and they can make you sleepy which is an added bonus!
Good luck.
If you have a pain clinic available, go there for evaluation. An MRI will show the exact location and often times an injection of steroids in the spine can give relief in 24-48 hours and it will last for several months.
You are definitely not alone with the sciatica. Mine started the day after the operation, and comes and goes. Physio says that I strain it by doing the exercises wrongly, but not sure. . after she has manipulated the knee back further than it wants to go, it's always worse . . .but then i suppose the knee needs it. . .If you find a solution, i shall be glad to hear it too!
Hi, I sympathise if you have sciatica. The knee is problematic enough without this extra problem. I was having pain down the back of my leg and the physio eventually diagnosed a tight piriformis muscle (in the bum) which presses on the sciatic nerve. It's not sciatica which is caused by a problem in the back. I know yours is the latter by the sound of it but I just wanted to say that with continuous exercise specifically for the piriformis problem it has got better. It has taken months though and progress has been slow, gradually improving one day a week then more often. I still get stiffness and some tingling but not the severe pain I was getting. Has your physio prescribed specific exercise for your sciatica? I didn't find ordinary painkillers helped at all
Thanks for info. I find I have more pain in the bum than down my leg. Sometimes even closer to my waist. But the sugeon in pre sugery appt put one finger on the bum where the pain is and she said I had SI, so who knows. Ive been thinking about even going to a chiropractor or acupuncerist(?) Just tired of the pain.
My physio gave me a really hard massage on that point in the buttock from where the pain seems to radiate right down the leg, sometimes even to the foot. . . I ended up with a huge bruise on my butt, but not sure that it did a lot of ggod to the sciatica!