Does this sound like sciatica or something different?

[Hopefulmama21]

I've had on and off pain in my right hip, outer thigh and outer calf for a couple of days now.

It lasts for a few hours and is pretty unbearable and then just disappears again - does this sound like sciatica or something different?

It's just on my right side currently, and started mainly as a deep ache in my hip yesterday morning then over the course of the day spread further down my leg before going away. Then this evening it's back again after feeling fine all day.

Heat is helping, and it's not painful to walk or exercise. It's a constant pain rather than a shooting pain.

Any ideas?

Yes it definitely sounds like sciatica ! I feel your pain . Ibuprofen and paracetamol does the trick.X

My experience of sciatica in pregnancy was a shooting pain rather than constant ache. Very sudden and intense and would make the leg/knee buckle. It’s my understanding that sciatica specifically refers to a shooting pain down the outside of the hip or buttock and down into the leg. As in, that’s what sciatica is- it describes a type of pain that radiates down the sciatic nerve. It can have lots of different causes.

So I wouldn’t describe your pain as sciatica necessarily, but it sounds unpleasant nonetheless, sorry you’re experiencing that 😕 It’s good that heat is helping.

Doesn't necessarily sound like sciatica to me, but you'll like be palmed off with that. I had something similar and after many different appointments including physio, it turned out to be a torn ligament in my pelvis.