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Ow..ow..ow..ow.. I've got sciatica!

29 replies

Katymac · 04/09/2006 18:56

& it hurts

I've had it before - so I know I have it again
Ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..ow..!!

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danceswithmonkeys · 04/09/2006 19:04

Ooooooooooh, sympathy from me. It blo*dy hurts.

Pinkchampagne · 04/09/2006 19:05

Sympathy from me too! I had it when I was expecting DS2 & it was very painful.

Mercy · 04/09/2006 19:06

Katymac, I've only had this once - in the last few weeks of pregnancy with dd and I still remember the agony over 5 years later.

Poor you

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Katymac · 04/09/2006 19:08

All I did was stand up

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bubble99 · 04/09/2006 19:09

Me too, Katymac. You have my sympathy.

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Katymac · 04/09/2006 19:11

Oh poor you - what did you do?

It's all my right bum & side and down to my left knee (I've only ever had it on one side before)

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bubble99 · 04/09/2006 19:13

Late pregnancy and a baby who has tilted my pelvis enough to put pressure on the right sciatic nerve. Ow!

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Katymac · 04/09/2006 19:15

Well tell him/her to move...have a curry or something to give babba hiccups

Lots of sympathy...have you long to go (&is it likely to disappear when baby is out?)

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bubble99 · 04/09/2006 19:17

CS on 26th October. Not taking any chance this time after last year's fatal f*k up.

I'm hoping the pain will go after delivery but I've been warned that it can take a while for the nerve to 'calm down.'

bubble99 · 04/09/2006 19:18

Did your sciatica need treatment to shift it last time? Or did it resolve itself?

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Katymac · 04/09/2006 19:18

Lots of mutal sympathy/empathy flying round

I mighht go to bed

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Katymac · 04/09/2006 19:20

I have reflexology and whne she does standing reflexology it really shifts it

I combine that with Acupressure and have both weekly

I may see if she has an appt tomorrow (I'm booked for Thursday)

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bubble99 · 04/09/2006 19:24

Good luck and I hope it shifts. I agree with the going to bed bit, BTW, but I find it nearly impossible to ease myself out of bed at the moment. I seem to 'lock' overnight.

tegan · 04/09/2006 19:32

I had siatica all the way through my last pregnancy and it was agony to the point that they wanted me to go into hospital for bed rest for my joints.

Mytholmroyd · 04/09/2006 20:23

Poor you! My sympathies.

I had sciatica with all four pregnancies - comes on around week 10 and disappears almost immediately after the birth but painful to the point of screaming. The last time (recently) the midwife sent me for acupuncture and cupping and I have to say (sceptical to the last!) it relieved it a lot - still there in the background but never flared up and enabled me to move around without limping or being in constant fear it would strike. I'd recommend it - anything worth a shot!

tegan · 04/09/2006 20:30

Well I am having coil out tomorrow and am panicking about having it if I get pg again.

shedevil · 04/09/2006 21:00

You have my sympathy! I had it in both legs with DS. Used to take me half an hour just to get out of bed on a morning (pain in the ar*e if you need a pee in the night as well, as us preggie mum's so often do!!)

Good thing was it disappeared very shortly after the birth.

1Baby1Bump · 04/09/2006 21:12

oh sciatica.....

the sheer joy.

sorry lovey, really feel for you! x

JennT · 04/09/2006 21:56

Oh my sympathies to you. I have it again too.

JennT · 04/09/2006 21:59

Isn't there a yoga pose that helps it?

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Katymac · 05/09/2006 08:07

It took me 25 mins to get out of bed

I can't wipe my bum

I hurt despite co-codamol

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JennT · 05/09/2006 16:53

Something to do with stretching the nerve? Anybody?

SoMuchToBits · 05/09/2006 17:01

There are two things which I have found may help.

  1. Go and find a bar (e.g. part of a climbing frame) which you can hang from, so that your feet don't quite touch the ground. This will stretch your back out. Or try to reach up as far as you can with your arms.

  2. Do this exercise. Lie flat on your back on the floor, with your arms out to the sides, but bent at the elbows. Raise one knee up to your chest. Then bring it across your body as far as it will go, while trying to keep your back and shoulders as flat as possible on the ground. Then bring the knee back to the centre and lower it, and repeat with the other knee. HTH.

JennT · 05/09/2006 17:27

That sounds good....

JennT · 05/09/2006 17:28

Aaah not as flexible as I was!