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Having over 14months reduced my preds from 30mg to 4mg I suddenly started to experience shoulder pain so upped the dose to 5mg which seemed to be effective. However several days ago I developed severe pain in my buttock and right down my left leg - presumably sciatica and wonder if this can be in any way connected to the PMR? Cannot take brufen or codeine and am at a loss to know what to do.
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faye______00403 Jaydy
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pain I think I've ever had.....and I've had three kids and several
operations in my life (I'm 78) I was mostly in bed for the month of Jan
unable to put any weight on my right leg. My doc gave me the
weakest strength of Percocet and I cut them in half and took one half
three times a day. Didn't make all the pain go away but made it
bearable. I understand about codeine, makes me sick. As soon as you can move you probably will need some therapy. I've had two
rounds and still feel the burning in my butt. Put some ice on the
painful spot and see if that helps....It's August 2 and I still feel some
burning. My sister-in-law had it and I asked her how long it took
to go away and she said a year......depressing isn't it?
You do need to see a doc or call one if you can. If you are in the
states check with some of the thrift shops and see if they have some
used walkers. My daughter-in-law got me one for $5. You will
need it......makes walking bearable. Good luck and hope it
soon goes away for you......
shirley40391 Jaydy
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lee34449 Jaydy
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judy93591 Jaydy
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Kassie_beetle Jaydy
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Horrible thing is sciatica. You really do need to see your doctor to get a confirmed diagnosis so that you know exactly what you are dealing with. I started experiencing sciatica months ago. For me the pain was excruciating. CT scan showed disc problems with nerve entrapment. My GP started me on Lyrica (pregabalin) this has been a help. There would be exercises that may help as well. A Physiotherapist could help you with those. Steroid Injections into the spine have helped some. It may take some time to improve and in some cases if there is a disc protrusion back surgery may be indicated. Lying on your side with a pillow between your legs is good too.
Having both PMR and sciatica is a real bummer. Each requires different courses of treatment.
Go see your GP, get sorted and hopefully your sciatica will resolve quickly.
Take Care
Kathy
denise76179 Jaydy
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EileenH Jaydy
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Rather than increase your pred dose there is physical therapy that can relieve the muscle spasm and so there is less irritation of the nerve and that eventually means less pain. There are exercises to stretch the piriformis muscle and manual mobilisation will also help to release the tight trigger points which are concentrations of the same substances, cytokines, that cause the inflammation in PMR. Somethimes this can appear to make the PMR worse for a few days but it soon clears.
Personally I have had a lot of benefit from something called Bowen therapy - and so have a lot of others on the forums. It is well worth looking for a local therapist - if it is going to help you will see an improvement in under 3 sessions - you may need more and more sessions if it recurrs at a later date but if it hasn't helped in 3 it probably won't.
Jaydy EileenH
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