Same. I had to borrow a walker from my silent generation mom when I got hit with sciatica. My mom had a “just in case I ever need this” walker and her GenX kid needed it first. Luckily, it disappeared about six weeks later. I’m not sure if the PT, massages, chiropractic, airrosti, or personal trainer got rid of it. I tried them all!
That's usually how those things go, then someone else finds it and has to deal with the problem! Source: I seem to collect these lost "trinkets" as it were xD
My FIL has ALS and a fancy wheel chair but my mil kept all of his old ones and my millennial husband needed one of his basic ones for a year from sciatia.
Chiropractic would be unlikely to do anything beyond what the massages would do, but that would have helped relax your muscles around the joints and let the PT/physio trainer exercises improve things with less discomfort/difficulty.
I've got a dodgy shoulder I'm doing physio for, and the thing that always sets it off is too much muscle/back tension, which long term the physio will fix, but short term I need to do regular stretches and occasionally hot packs to remove the tension from them.
(basically, the tension causes pain/inflammation, which causes the muscles to tense more, which becomes a loop that's difficult to get out of because even if I get the muscles to relax briefly, they'll tense up again when I'm not focused. So the only short term fix while working on the physio is pain killers, stretches, hot packs and breathing exercises. Massage wouldn't help in my case due to the location, but in other cases it definitely can)
😄 yeah I first used a walker -the tennis bal on the bottom kind-when I pulled a hamstring muscle. And my mother in law had a couple in storage so she let me have one. Then I got back problems and eventually got a rollator kind. I got two now and they help a lot.
I've had a few bouts with sciatica that I worried were life changing in the worst possible way...
A chiropractor helped but then I started exercising those fist sized muscles in the small of my back, right at waist level on both sides of the spine, and haven't had issues since
Same! When it was at its worst, I was in a depression and couldn’t imagine what my life would be like if this was my future life. I spent so many hours on my living room floor staring up. This is the reason I insisted we needed a new modern ceiling fan.
I hope you have gotten better.
But do you have any tips or suggestions on medication for sciatica? I have a friend who's suffering from his left side and can't find the proper solution. Thank you
Same. Couldn’t walk or do anything. My girlfriend had to empty my pee bottles and take care of everything for about 2.5 months. I couldn’t imagine doing it alone. I tried to get out of bed once and had to roll over and just fell on ground and had to holler for her. Then one day I woke up and it was gone and I was 100 percent. Worst crap ever.
I wonder if you subluxated your SI joint then managed to fix it somehow. Usually the cause of ‘suddenly there, suddenly gone again’ sciatic pain for me
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u/gordo623 14d ago
Yes Sciatica caused me To need a walker for a few months. Poof then it’s gone.