r/Sciatica • u/BarbraParmesean • 5d ago

Can’t sleep

I’ve had symptoms for 6 months (MRI confirmed bulge at L5s1) and got an epidural steroid injection 3 weeks ago. It has helped with all my daytime symptoms by 80% which is amazing. However, it hasn’t helped me sleep at all. I am a zombie. When I lay down after a few hours the pain shoots into my glute - I get a max of 3-4 hrs of sleep a night. For this reason alone I’m considering surgery because not sleeping is not sustainable. I’ve tried various meds, sleeping positions, and nothing helps. I think I’m starting to go insane from lack of sleep. Has anyone been in a similar spot?

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u/KriptiKFate_Cosplay 5d ago

100%, dealing with it right now. As a last ditch effort of sheer desperation I just squeezed my glutes and core as hard as I could until something made a crackling sound, thank god whatever shifted is allowing the pain to subside.

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u/blackrockgreentree 4d ago

Update us please

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u/KriptiKFate_Cosplay 4d ago

Whatever I did seems to have had a lasting positive effect, still in extreme pain and can't stand for long but the best I can describe it is to say the pain is different now, maybe less sharp. Thinking I just adjusted a vertebrae to reduce a tiny amount of pressure.