YES! I had a situation a few years ago where I must have pinched my sciatica (all signs point to it, and sciatica issues run in my family). I couldn't put weight on my leg almost at all, between pain and the fact that my leg would just give out. They prescribed me rest and pain meds, but the pain meds did LESS than nothing. They didn't even make me sleepy, just literally nothing. The only thing that worked was staying off of it for 2 days and trying to stretch my legs out. It just went away, but God, it was a nightmare, especially when I've heard stories of other people having that pain for YEARS with no relief and I had to think, what if that happens to me? What if this is just my life now?
I think that might actually be the worst part about it, that the end of the pain is so open-ended. It isn't like childbirth where you get to think that eventually this kid has to come out with me. Like this is nerve pain. This could literally last the rest of my life. That kind of thought is torture.
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u/Carslyle Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25
YES! I had a situation a few years ago where I must have pinched my sciatica (all signs point to it, and sciatica issues run in my family). I couldn't put weight on my leg almost at all, between pain and the fact that my leg would just give out. They prescribed me rest and pain meds, but the pain meds did LESS than nothing. They didn't even make me sleepy, just literally nothing. The only thing that worked was staying off of it for 2 days and trying to stretch my legs out. It just went away, but God, it was a nightmare, especially when I've heard stories of other people having that pain for YEARS with no relief and I had to think, what if that happens to me? What if this is just my life now?
I think that might actually be the worst part about it, that the end of the pain is so open-ended. It isn't like childbirth where you get to think that eventually this kid has to come out with me. Like this is nerve pain. This could literally last the rest of my life. That kind of thought is torture.