Does anyone here have sciatica? Or had it
before pregnancy?
I was diagnosed with it about 5 years ago.
Some weeks I don't notice it at all and
other times it's completely unbearable.
(For people that don't know what it is,
it's pretty much pressure on your sciatic
nerve in your lower back that shoots pain
into your leg/hip/butt and often causes
your leg to collapse). Before I got
pregnant I would often wake up in the
morning with pain so excrutiating in my
left leg that I could hardly breathe.
Now I figured if it was going to be a
problem during pregnancy it wouldn't start
till later but how wrong I was. Apparently
since the uterus is still sitting so low
in the first trimester it can actually
cause MORE pain. Which makes sense I guess
since there was nothing pushing against
the nerve before and now theres something
the size of a small melon grinding on my
nerve.
Anyways i'm not sure what the point of
this was except to find out if anyone is
suffering with this as much as I do some
days?
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Posted: 05-16-08 09:46am
I can sympathize with you. It's very
annoying. Mine comes and goes. Some days
worse than others. Some days I can't lay
down, roll over, or get up because it
hurts soooo bad! Then I'll be walking and
that pain will shoot down my leg, making
it go weak and I have to grab onto
something or risk falling. I just enjoy
the times it's not bothering me, cause
when it is, I'm miserable! Good luck with
rest of your pregnancy!
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Ingi
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Posted: 05-16-08 11:18am
I had it from the time I was about 9 weeks
pregnant. It made my life so unbearable, I
could hardly move. My doctor sent me to
get physical therapy and I swear, the PT
lady did not understand the condition. She
had me doing exercises that were
aggravating it. I'd leave there in tears
and not be able to walk for 2 days.
If I had it now, I'd seek chiropractic
therapy and indulge in massages.
Good luck.
Don't use stairs if you can avoid them,
do. They aggravate sciatica.
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Posted: 05-16-08 11:28am
do you get this during pregnancy?
or is it just like a health factor thats
not caused from pregnancy.
Is it just those pains you get in your
legs and lower back? I get that sometimes
but sometimes i think its just from
sitting for too long or i have to stretch
it out.
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Ingi
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Posted: 05-16-08 11:45am
Yours does sound like it is caused from
sitting. If it gets better from stretching
out, it is not sciatica.
Not all pregnant women get it. Not very
many get it terribly severe. A little pain
is common during pregnancy. People can get
sciatica whether or not they are pregnant.
It is a nerve in your lower back, near
your tail bone. It can cause pain shooting
down your leg.
Hey, Krystine, whatever happened with your
pregnancy project at school?
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Posted: 05-16-08 11:52am
Hm, i'll have to read up on it a little
more, i looked it up a little while ago
but didnt read much about it, just thats
its an uncomfortable pain that shoots from
our back down to your legs.
Its on hold for a little right now.
Since i was sick im a little behind right
now. I have to think of survey questions
-25 questions to be exact. Then i have to
give them out for people to do. I just
have to think up some questions.
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Posted: 05-16-08 11:54am
krystineM
wrote:
Hm, i'll have to read up on
it a little more, i looked it up a little
while ago but didnt read much about it,
just thats its an uncomfortable pain that
shoots from our back down to your legs.
That is exactly what it is. Pain. From the
sciatic nerve. If you don't have it, you
don't need to be concerned about it.
Chances are, you won't get it.
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Posted: 05-16-08 11:58am
that sounds awful though
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:01pm
I had sciatica, but I think it was caused
more from a previous car accident, then
worsened by pregnancy.
During the car accident, one of my hips
were pushed more forward than the other.
When the sciatica came, it was almost
unbearable!
I could absolutely not sit or lay on the
floor at all or I wouldn't be able to get
up because the pain was so bad.
As Ingi stated, I DID go to a
chiropractor. It helped so much. They
tried to manipulate my hip back into place
but she said the bigger the baby becomes,
the more pain I would experience (not only
does the uterus push on the sciatic nerve,
but the baby will also).
There's not much you can do about it
besides going to the chiropractor. Plus,
you get a massage afterwards!
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:06pm
Marianne0558
wrote:
I had sciatica, but I think
it was caused more from a previous car
accident, then worsened by pregnancy.
During the car accident, one of my hips
were pushed more forward than the other.
When the sciatica came, it was almost
unbearable!
I could absolutely not sit or lay on the
floor at all or I wouldn't be able to get
up because the pain was so bad.
As Ingi stated, I DID go to a
chiropractor. It helped so much. They
tried to manipulate my hip back into place
but she said the bigger the baby becomes,
the more pain I would experience (not only
does the uterus push on the sciatic nerve,
but the baby will also).
There's not much you can do about it
besides going to the chiropractor. Plus,
you get a massage afterwards!
You know... that is interesting... because
I was in an accident and have a terrible
hip from it. Hmm.
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:18pm
Ingi
wrote:
You know... that is interesting... because
I was in an accident and have a terrible
hip from it.
Hmm.
I bet a lot of people with sciatica were
in car accidents.
I had severe whiplash... it forced my left
hip forward and the other one back because
of the way I was positioned. I hear people
who see an accident coming brace
themselves, making their injuries worse
sometimes.
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:24pm
I was flung 45 feet off the back of a
motorcycle that slammed into a car. We
were going about 50 mph. I don't remember
anything. I was comatose for a few days.
My hip has always bothered me since then
though, even though it was my knee that
was broken.
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:27pm
Marianne0558
wrote:
When the sciatica came, it
was almost unbearable!
I could absolutely not sit or lay on the
floor at all or I wouldn't be able to get
up because the pain was so bad.
this is me right now, but i'm not
pregnant. i'm going on 5 weeks with
unbearable pain. sometimes the pain hits
me so bad i get a feeling like i'm going
to throw up. if i feel semi-good and get
on the floor with my son i end up having
to drag myself to a piece of furniture to
pull up on. one day i foolishly tried to
lay on my stomach on the floor with him. i
spent the next 5 minutes frozen in pain
and couldn't move at all to relieve it. i
have to manhandle my 7 week old to get her
in and out of her bassinet or swing. i can
barely do anything. yesterday i felt good,
i thought i'd had a miraculous recovery! i
cleaned, i played, i danced... and today i
am paying the price.
i don't have insurance right now and i
can't afford a visit to the chiropractor
so i'm just waiting it out and hoping it
clears up eventually.
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:31pm
Bridget
wrote:
Marianne0558
wrote:
When the sciatica came, it
was almost unbearable!
I could absolutely not sit or lay on the
floor at all or I wouldn't be able to get
up because the pain was so bad.
this is me right now, but i'm not
pregnant. i'm going on 5 weeks with
unbearable pain. sometimes the pain hits
me so bad i get a feeling like i'm going
to throw up. if i feel semi-good and get
on the floor with my son i end up having
to drag myself to a piece of furniture to
pull up on. one day i foolishly tried to
lay on my stomach on the floor with him. i
spent the next 5 minutes frozen in pain
and couldn't move at all to relieve it. i
have to manhandle my 7 week old to get her
in and out of her bassinet or swing. i can
barely do anything. yesterday i felt good,
i thought i'd had a miraculous recovery! i
cleaned, i played, i danced... and today i
am paying the price.
i don't have insurance right now and i
can't afford a visit to the chiropractor
so i'm just waiting it out and hoping it
clears up
eventually.
Mine was even worse after delivery!
So sorry to hear you don't have insurance
to figure out what can be done for you.
Have you considered going to a free
clinic? They can at least get an xray for
you to maybe tell you what the exact
problem is. They can probably also
prescribe some pain medicine.
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Posted: 05-16-08 12:36pm
Bridget
wrote:
this is me right now, but i'm not
pregnant. i'm going on 5 weeks with
unbearable pain. sometimes the pain hits
me so bad i get a feeling like i'm going
to throw up. if i feel semi-good and get
on the floor with my son i end up having
to drag myself to a piece of furniture to
pull up on. one day i foolishly tried to
lay on my stomach on the floor with him. i
spent the next 5 minutes frozen in pain
and couldn't move at all to relieve it. i
have to manhandle my 7 week old to get her
in and out of her bassinet or swing. i can
barely do anything. yesterday i felt good,
i thought i'd had a miraculous recovery! i
cleaned, i played, i danced... and today i
am paying the price.
i don't have insurance right now and i
can't afford a visit to the chiropractor
so i'm just waiting it out and hoping it
clears up
eventually.
sciatic pain sucks! I got it when i was
pregnant with Joseph my first i dont
remember when in that pregnancy it started
but i figured it would go away after he
was born but boy was i wrong. It got worse
during the 2nd pregnancy! And still now it
aggravates me sometimes. It hurts to sit
on the floor or lay on the floor with
mykids like ven laying on my stomach and
well when i decided to paint my entire
living room and stuff well that was just
the worst idea! I heard though that pain
killers wont help it though? But everyone
ive known has recommended a chiropractor.
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Posted: 05-17-08 00:55am
Wow i'm surprised so many people have
suffered with it.
Ingi- I know accidents are one of the most
common causes for the onset of sciatica. I
know when I got into an accident it was my
hip that was injured and eventually the
pain that appeared to be in my hip joint
spread into my back/leg/and butt.
The funny thing is that some days it's
absolutely perfect (or so I think) then I
go to run to the printer at work or run
around doing something else and I suddenly
feel like i'm going to keel over.
I never thought of a chriopractor, i've
always been kind of wary of them but if
they've worked for some people maybe i'll
give it a go. I tried a shiatsu massage
therapist and i swear to god she made the
pain far more horrible then it should have
been
