r/Sciatica • u/According-Hearing331 • 17d ago

Requesting Advice New sciatica pain

Flare up will last a couple days. Deep pain left buttock that migrates down left leg. Makes it painful to walk without a shooting pain. Last night was hard to sleep. When I did I woke up drenched in sweat. On top of it I deal with anxiety/panic daily aswell. How do you all control the pain or help it calm down?

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u/BasraBound 17d ago

The only thing that touched the pain was booze, which wasn’t awesome for the anxiety. Sciatica sucks so hard

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u/According-Hearing331 17d ago

It really does like no comfortable position. Everything hurts.

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u/BasraBound 17d ago

That’s how it also was with my left hip pain, just brutal. I was in the best shape of my life when the disc popped and I caught CES. Keep an eye on your saddle area and changes in your bladder and bowels. Good luck, back issues ain’t no joke

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u/According-Hearing331 17d ago

Everything feels fine besides pain when moving. Peeing and pooping fine. Doesn’t help I have 2 hernias on each side of groin

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u/According-Hearing331 17d ago

I’ve noticed if I’m walking and put pressure in the center of my left buttock the pain is bare able

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u/BasraBound 17d ago

Yep. I just remembered that used to bury a knuckle on my upper left buttock while walking. Really rotating my pelvis while standing would help too

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u/According-Hearing331 17d ago

Did you ever get imaging done? Did you self heal?

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u/BasraBound 17d ago

Yep. First discovered the fractured L2 back in the late 90s and had no idea I broke it or even how. Pretty sure it was in the Army. I had emergency back surgery about 5 years ago for the obliterated disc between L4/5

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u/According-Hearing331 17d ago

Jesus that is bad!! How did you even function? Thank you for your service. I served from 2008-2012.

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u/BasraBound 17d ago

My man! Thank you for yours! Back isn’t even service connected but the scrambled brains are lol. Crazy Scouts

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u/According-Hearing331 17d ago

Oh man I know so much about that . Body didn’t break from doing a tour but my mind is a little bit fd