different pain

Brain and nerves
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Hi There

I have had problems in the past with a bulging disc.that caused sciatic pain .I have been lucky and have only had two episodes where i had awful pain since in the last 20 years they only lasted maybe a week or so.yesterday i started getting a nerve pain in thetop of right buttock even just touching skin was painful on a scale of one to ten maybe a 6 so bearable .during the night i have now got pain from buttock down thigh into back of knee and tingling in the foot when i got up i am now unable to walk properly on that leg.The strange thing is there is no pain in back and the pain is no way as bad as i have had in the past my worry is i have a leg that is not working properly especially back of knee keeps giving way? is this sciatica?

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This sounds very similar to my problem and i had lumber 4 / lumber 5 nerve compression and it made my knee give way . A cat scan showed my compression good luck hope it improves 

 

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Pain in your butt and then down the back of your leg?  Sure sounds like it.  I've had sciatica many, many times over the years...always fixed very quickly by a chiropractor.  But you already know that the problem originates in your spine.  I had that happen one time only.  A bone spur was crushing my sciatic nerve root at L4.  Solved by a simple laminectomy at L4/L5.  I'd see a neurosurgeon and get that fixed ASAP....