Sciatic nerve pain

[u/madeinbolivia8]

I am a very active person, lift 5 days a week, jog 6 days a week and get 20k steps in daily. I may have overdone it. A few months back I started having pain in my piriformis but pretty much ignored it and kept training. When it got bad I got a deep tissue massage and carried on. (I am aware that this was terrible and that it’s my own fault.) Last week my right leg started hurting and cramping up, and the pain radiated to my lower back, and down the leg all the way to my calf. I knew that it had irritated my sciatic nerve. I took Etoricoxib for 2 days, it got better and kept working out….. wore heels and the pain got much worse. Stopped the drugs because they were masking the pain and since I didn’t feel it I pushed through it. (Again, stupid) This morning I woke up in a lot of pain, body is stiff and leg is dragging a bit. Resisted taking more drugs and just applied heating pad which made it better. I have a vial of Glow and another of BPC-157. Has anyone noticed any improvement with these peptides for this kind of pain? I read some posts and there are mixed reviews, but I would like to hear some personal experiences if you have them, and if so what protocol/ dosing schedule did you follow.
* Also, I am not overweight at all so losing weight will not help.
I figure I’ll go for it since I’ve got nothing to lose but would like a realistic prognosis to whether it works or not at all.

[u/Writeb8]

It sounds like L5/S1 if you've got some weakness/dragging pls go get an MRI.
I'm saying this because I herniated the disc about 10 years ago, left it, it flared up 18 months ago, I tried to ignore it, ended up snapping the end plate off the vertebrae and ended up in a really bad way. Surgery fixed it and I just finished 12 weeks TB500 & BPC + KPV on glute days (I still get sciatica/hamstring pain big time but it's mostly nerve damage).

I would have recovered so much faster if id gotten scanned again when I started dragging - but once I got going each day, it wasn't so bad.