Your best tip for sciatica please 🙏

[mechanicalpencil]

DH has been diagnosed with sciatica and a misalignment in his back. He is in a lot of pain.

What thing helped you most please?

tia

Stretching exercises, search online.

Physio? Walking daily, sleeping with a cushion between my legs, painkillers, yoga exercises

Steroid injection.

Painkillers and anti-inflammatories (gabapentin + diclofenac) for about 4 months so that I could move, then hydrotherapy pool and swimming. I could barely walk but swimming, and believe it or not cycling (being helped onto a static bike!) helped a lot. Stretching the legs out seemed to be good. Acupuncture and tens machine felt good while it was being done but didn't seem to do much beyond that.

My issue was a bulging disc impinging on the nerve, which eventually healed itself but took about 9-10 months.

Yoga seemed to have aggravated my problem so couldn't recommend that, and I've never done it since, Pilates is OK for me though. Sleeping on my side with a cushion between my legs did help stop me waking up in the morning unable to move without sobbing in agony.

Don't be afraid to ask for pain relief - I saw a physio initially and she told me flat out to go see my GP and get some pain relief before she would do anything! I still do the exercises the physio recommended and this, with Pilates and swimming, seems to have prevented any recurrence.

All best wishes and hope he finds a way through this - its awful.

Essential medication here is Naproxen, with a ppi such as omeprozole for stomach protection.

The naproxen is a prescription anti inflammatory med. You need a medications that addresses the inflammation in the disc where the nerve originates or passes through.

Stretches are really good. See online.

Heat sprays, heat pads ( Poundland does loads).

Chiropractor or Osteopath and Sports massage

Nerve flossing, look on you tube. They are stretches that help release the nerve. I found them helps.

Thank you everyone
I will have a look at all your suggestions!

Keeping moving
Tens machine

Targeted exercises / stretches. See a physio, not an osteopath or chiropractor.
Mine was two bulging discs and a trapped nerve. It took a long time to clear and comes back occasionally but I know how to see it off now.