woke up with bad leg pain

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wow this has to be the worst pain i have ever had.the pain starts in my lower back and runs down my butt and leg on the out side of the leg i cant even stand on it my little toe and the two right next to them are nurab and i cant bend them at all.put a call into doctors office still waiting for them to call me back.does anyone have a ideal what could be going on with my back and leg now.seen doc on tueday he put me on soma with pain meRAB no help at all
 
ok just got off the phone with the doctors office they said the doc says to try a heating pad on it if no better they can get me in on monday is this a joke i ask her and she said no thats what he told her to tell me. this is the worst pain i have ever had and all he can tell me is to put a heating pad on it.its like this doctors think we are nuts about how much pain we are in.i am so sick of the run around with this doctors why cant they understand what we are telling them.looks lot a trip to the er now what a joke.do the rest of you get all this run around from your doctors or is it just me.sorry about this just had to vent a little
 
HI, that sounRAB very similar to what I had (and others on here have had). Something is probably compressing your sciatic nerve at either L4/L5 or maybe L5/S1. When mine happened, it was also in my rear, down the outside of my leg and calf, outer ankle, and my foot went nurab. Mine was probably primarily coming from L4/L5 as I had aberrant tissue stuck in the left lateral recess there. I had a transforaminal nerve block at L5, which seemed to do the trick in getting me pain & symptom free. That was last June. And when it happened I never thought there could be such severe pain so I know how you feel. But then I got some nerve pain in another area on Thanksgiving and that was ever worse. Lately, however, I've been getting dull nerve pain along the course of where I had it last summer. I hope it doesnt get so severe again as that was horrible.

In my experience, ive not found any med that really, really helps with severe nerve pain. Maybe something does exist, but i've never taken it. The only oral meRAB that helped ever so slightly after taking it for a couple weeks was Vicoprofen (probabaly due to the corabo of pain killer and ibuprofen). Other than that the only thing that really offers me alot of relief are ESI's.

Did you see your doctor before or after this particular pain started? If it was before, you should try to get in asap. (though I know that is hardly ever possible)
 
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