Sciatica question

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Rampage,

Thanks for the information. I really think this may be a sciatic/piriformis problem. Funny...I've paid so much to docs and had three MRIs and am being monitored for MS....and it took the folks like you on this board to help me narrow down what my problem might be.

I really am grateful!


Naomi
 
Disc tear as well...I have 2, possibly 3 separate problems. I'll know in the next few months if my SI joint pain was radiation from the disc or not. But we were able to diagnose the piriformis/nerve 2 years before we FINALLY found the tear. MRIs never found it...I had to tell my Ortho to be extremely aggressive, so we did a discogram, which found the tear that 4 MRIs (1/year) couldn't.

I'm just glad the worst problem is the one that has a chance of being fixed!
 
Hi Rampage,

The pain in my buttock is only on the portion that I am directly sitting on. No pain on the upper part or near my lower back. ( I did have severe spasms in my lower back 8 years ago but not now).

I have no pain when touching/pressing my thigh bone. The only thigh pain I have had is in the area around my hamstring....behind and above the knee.

The physical therapist had me to stretch my piriformis and the area that aches now is similiar to the area I had worked with in therapy.

Tell me, how does the piriformis pinch a nerve? This could be the case with me. I had been on long car trips both times just prior to my problems. Could sitting on this area have caused this problem?

Thanks so much for your help.

Naomi
 
My sciatic nerve problem involves pain in my buttock and down my leg into my knee and into my ankle at times. I have had pain block shots that has helped and now they want to burn the nerves in my back but I am looking for someone else that has had that done before I do it. My Dr says that I should be pain free for 8-9 months if Ihave this done.
 
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