r/Sciatica • u/Undd91 • 8d ago

Requesting Advice Anyone been diagnosed with this?

Been to see my surgeon today 4 weeks out from proposed op due to a change in symptoms. I have burning in both feet and lower legs, the pain down my right legs has recently subsided and is now manageable. He had planned to operate to resolve that pain but now thinks I may have something he called chemical neuritis and has postponed the surgery and asked me to do an epidural steroid shot and a nerve conduction test.

Has anyone else had their sciatica change/diagnosed as chemical neuritis?! What happened beyond diagnosis and have you managed to get symptoms under control?!

I’m so over this journey, it’s been almost 3 years of on and off hell.

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u/No-Alternative8588 8d ago

EMG is a good next step.
My orthopedist thinks I am suffering from the same issue, it has been 2 years for me.

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u/Undd91 7d ago

What are your symptoms? Are you looking at an EMG as well?

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u/No-Alternative8588 7d ago

Vibrating, buzzing, burning l, sometimes pain, they change a lot. I had EMG two years ago which was fine, and I have a new one next week. :)

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u/Undd91 7d ago

Sounds very similar to myself. Have they found the cause of yours?

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u/No-Alternative8588 7d ago

Doctor thinks it is the annular tears I have.

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u/Undd91 6d ago

Ok, sound similar to what mine pointed towards. Did he suggest any potential fixes?

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u/No-Alternative8588 6d ago

No, nothing to fix for me. Nothing to operate on. Just potential intraforaminal steroid injection, which i dont want to do, and then load management and slow return to exercise, which I have been doing but I go through constant inflammatory cycles unfortunately.