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Any Sciatic tips?

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Emily0905
Emily0905

Hello! Im 25 and have been experiencing back for a few years that I just shrugged off but last week when full of the cold, I coughed and felt something make a sharp shooting pain in my lower back. Off to the doctors, told I have sciatica, prescribed cocodamol and signed off work for a week. Which when full of a cold that led to sinusitis and sore was no picnic. Back to the doctors yesterday as pain has left my back but now unable to stand straight without shooting pain down my left leg (which was my affected side anyway). The doctor burshed it off and I was prescribed naproxen, an anti inflammatory, which as yet seems to be doing nothing. I can only describe the pain as the back of my thigh being tight and whenever I stretch it I just about end up crying on the floor in a mess. I was wondering if this is normal for sciatica and should I continue as I am with the prescribed meds and just keep on attempting to keep moving about as I have been told staying still for too long will only lengthen the healing process. Any help would be great, I've been signed off work for a further two weeks with it sad

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    donna1965 Emily0905

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    Hi Emily. Just wondered how you are. Have you had any improvement?
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