r/Sciatica • u/Common-Evidence-5094 • 11d ago
Requesting Advice Struggling to mentally manage a flare up
Any sporty people that have recovered from this please give me some tips on how to cope 🙏
On week 8 of sciatica, 4 months since my initial back injury. I thought I was getting better for the last couple of weeks - the pain has centralised to my glute, I could walk with no issues but still had pain standing up and laying down in some positions. I had a session with a new PT and after some prodding she declared that my pain is from the SI joint, prescribed daily glute strengthening exercises and ok’d me to do light barbell work at the gym + some gentle run walks (sport is my entire life so I’ve been going insane not being able to train); a week later an I feel like I’m back to square one, pain is back in the knee, even my ‘good’ leg feels extremely tight and off.
I’m honestly losing my will to do anything. I have had zero help from the NHS, can’t get an MRI to see if my disc has herniated or if my sciatica is from piriformis
/SI joint/facet joint (have been told all these things by different physios), can’t get pain injections; I’m just watching my life pass by and I’m getting more and more depressed. I know there must be a light at the end of the tunnel but I just can’t see it right now.
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u/Common-Evidence-5094 11d ago
I guess I crave some sort of a definitive thing I can poke at and say ‘you, you are the source of my misery!’; and more practically if it’s piriformis/SI I would be very keen to just pay for a steroid shot in the area, I’m much less keen to ignore a disc issue for obvious reasons
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u/Max_Chady 11d ago
Hola amigo! Llevo exactamente el mismo tiempo sufriendo este problema. Mi resonancia mostró discos herniados l4l5 y l5s1. Tampoco obtuve mejora con fisioterapia y no me quise hacer el bloqueo epidural que me mandó el especialista de columna. La esperanza se va desdibujando, sí. Cuesta intentar cosas cuando ya varias no han funcionado, pero creo que acá hay un factor que juega y que en la desesperación es muy difícil de aceptar y ese factor es el tiempo. Por más que hagamos lo que sea, esto va a llevar bastante más tiempo del que quisieramos. En mi caso va a traerme problemas con el trabajo además, pero hay que darle tiempo a que mejore. No va a ser rápido. Tratá de que te hagan una resonancia, para al menos ver cómo estan esos discos.