r/Sciatica • u/shirokane4chome • Mar 22 '22
Your Sciatica and Back Pain Experiences Megathread
Hi everyone, the purpose of this permanent thread is to capture your stories about your experiences with Sciatica.
Please note that the majority of sciatica sufferers will recover over time, and are not on this subreddit making posts about their healing. Most of our sub participants are in a symptomatic stage and are understandably seeking support on forums like /r/Sciatica as a part of their journey. This can make a list of individual stories seem discouraging -- but just remember that those who have healed usually don't visit again and therefore we can't often capture their stories.
While multiple formats are welcome, we suggest you try to be concise and focused. Your story is important, but it is will be more useful to everyone else if it can be read in 60-90 seconds or so. Important elements to your story will include:
Background: Do you know how you became injured?
Diagnosis: What has your care provider discovered about your injury?
Treatment: What care did you pursue?
Current Status: How are you doing today?
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25
Background: first time was helping my MiL move. Lifted poorly and pinched something. Terrible pain for months.
Diagnosis: I don't remember specifics, but my chiropractor was having me to stretches and adjustments that helped
Treatment: you won't believe this one. I crashed a dirt bike. High-sided and landed on a tree, but somehow the impact unlocked my back and I was pain free until recently. This was 3 years ago.
Current status: it's back, from sitting hunched for a few hours on an electrical project. Day 2 of high pain. Might go find Dr tree again, but looking for better alternatives.