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Hi folks, I wonder if you might be able to take a moment to pray for me.
I've had awful back problems for about 4 weeks now. For the first 2 weeks
I continued to go into work but sitting at a desk all day just made it so much worse
so I've been on sick for last 2 weeks.
It seemed to be on the mend and I hoped to be going back to work next week.
But then middle of this week I felt my back give again, I was in total agony for
most of the day, but then in the shower later something clicked in my back and the
majority of the lower back pain disappeared.
Great I thought.
But the next day I started with sciatica pain, a throbbing dull ache at first in my hip and
upper leg.
It got really bad Friday night/Saturday morning and in addition it felt as if my left shin was on fire
when sitting down. Also my left leg has become weak i have to be careful going up and down stairs
especially that my leg doesn't give way.
Ive never heard of shin pain caused by sciatica so I rang our local 111 health advice service.
They advised me to go to Accident and Emergency, I think they thought I had a blood clot or was
having a stroke due to the leg weakness. It seemed a bit extreme and I was sure it wasn't that!
So in the end I went to a walk in doctor's clinic. They said it was "just" sciatica and gave me more
pain killers. Although not common, sciatica can apparently cause shin nerve pain and the leg
weakness.
I'm now on three lots of painkillers and none of them touch the pain.
One lot to target the nerve pain
One lot to target the inflammation
And prescription strength cocodemol for the general pain.
I'm still in agony, walking around reduces the burning sensation and throbbing a bit but my leg still
remains very weak as if the muscles can't work properly.
Sitting down for around 5 minutes and the full force of both types of pain returns. Even lying down
hurts due to the pressure so I'm not sleeping well.
I'm going to see my own doctor again tomorrow for another sick note and to see if he can suggest
anything else. I've tried everything I can think of, heat, ice packs, light stretching exercises,
rub on pain killing gels, tens machine. Nothing has worked.
Prayers would be appreciated for this pain and sciatica that it would quickly clear up. At the
moment I feel like chopping my leg off! I can't imagine the pain would be any worse!
Also pray that there won't be problems with my work place. They have this strange sickness
policy whereby if you are off so many days you get a verbal warning, then it escalates
to a written warning etc. Even if you have a sick note! That's why I struggled to continue
to go to work for those two weeks in the first place, but i've just made it far worse.
I've had awful back problems for about 4 weeks now. For the first 2 weeks
I continued to go into work but sitting at a desk all day just made it so much worse
so I've been on sick for last 2 weeks.
It seemed to be on the mend and I hoped to be going back to work next week.
But then middle of this week I felt my back give again, I was in total agony for
most of the day, but then in the shower later something clicked in my back and the
majority of the lower back pain disappeared.
Great I thought.
But the next day I started with sciatica pain, a throbbing dull ache at first in my hip and
upper leg.
It got really bad Friday night/Saturday morning and in addition it felt as if my left shin was on fire
when sitting down. Also my left leg has become weak i have to be careful going up and down stairs
especially that my leg doesn't give way.
Ive never heard of shin pain caused by sciatica so I rang our local 111 health advice service.
They advised me to go to Accident and Emergency, I think they thought I had a blood clot or was
having a stroke due to the leg weakness. It seemed a bit extreme and I was sure it wasn't that!
So in the end I went to a walk in doctor's clinic. They said it was "just" sciatica and gave me more
pain killers. Although not common, sciatica can apparently cause shin nerve pain and the leg
weakness.
I'm now on three lots of painkillers and none of them touch the pain.
One lot to target the nerve pain
One lot to target the inflammation
And prescription strength cocodemol for the general pain.
I'm still in agony, walking around reduces the burning sensation and throbbing a bit but my leg still
remains very weak as if the muscles can't work properly.
Sitting down for around 5 minutes and the full force of both types of pain returns. Even lying down
hurts due to the pressure so I'm not sleeping well.
I'm going to see my own doctor again tomorrow for another sick note and to see if he can suggest
anything else. I've tried everything I can think of, heat, ice packs, light stretching exercises,
rub on pain killing gels, tens machine. Nothing has worked.
Prayers would be appreciated for this pain and sciatica that it would quickly clear up. At the
moment I feel like chopping my leg off! I can't imagine the pain would be any worse!
Also pray that there won't be problems with my work place. They have this strange sickness
policy whereby if you are off so many days you get a verbal warning, then it escalates
to a written warning etc. Even if you have a sick note! That's why I struggled to continue
to go to work for those two weeks in the first place, but i've just made it far worse.