My sciatica is getting more frequent BUT my back pains all but gone
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Hi
If someone could just give me a heads up please as I wait for my appointment that would be great.
Long story short
Hurt my back in my early 20's had sciatica pain in my left leg on and off for 14 years (with lower back spasms mixed in for good messure). 4 Weeks ago I collapsed with pretty much no strength in my legs after it happend I got 10/10 on the pain scale back pain (this lasted about 2 days) which lowered to around 5/10 after about a weeek on diazipam/codeine.
Now my back pain has all but gone HOWEVER I have sciatica pain in both my legs now which I never had before and intermittent numbness in the toes of my left leg. I used to walk throuth the pain and try do do normal stuff before but now if I try and walk even half a mile I find no strength in my legs and can end up laid on the floor waiting for a lift to take me home again. Walking (doing anything) seems to make my sciatica worse.
Has anyone experienced this lack of back pain but increases frequency in sciatica?
I currently have pain in my testicles, posterior, outer left leg all the way down and down to my knee in right leg; all this pain comes and goes apart from mt testicles which seem to constantly hurt.
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philsno1 nigel59319
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sounds pretty much the same as my symptoms, pain in both legs, numbness in toes in my left leg (I didn't have any pain in the nether regions though) but it turned out to be a herniated disc. I took lots of pain killers which didn’t help much and eventually had an MRI scan which confirmed the disc problem and immediately after having the scan, they transferred me to a specialist hospital to operate and remove some of the offending disc to take the pressure off my spinal chord.
My condition improved a great deal after my operation, the pain in my legs went immediately and I was able to walk about pain free within hours of being operated on, although the numbness in my toes didn't go, but I was told that it could take months for that to happen.
You should try to get in immediately, after my MRI I was told that if I didn't have an operation immediately, there was a significant risk of becoming incontinent and even losing the use of my legs. You should get immediate treatment, as it really does sound serious, going from personal experience.
nigel59319 philsno1
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I've phonned up again stressing I keep losing strenght and they've agreed to see me tomorrow. I'm hoping they give me something positive, I really dont want to have to wait 6-8 week for an MRI
philsno1 nigel59319
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It took me a few months from my first visit to the doctors to eventually get the MRI scan, after being prescribed a variety of pain killers and then having had several physio appointments, which the doctor said may help, but after the MRI when the hospital wanted to admit me and were amazed I could even walk (given the results of the scan), they wouldn't even allow me to take my car home and transferred me via ambulance to the specialist neurological hospital.
All this set alarm bells ringing and I realised how lucky I had been to get the MRI scan done in time before any permanent damage had been done and that some vigilant person viewing the scan, saw how much the disc had herniated into my spinal chord.
I have recently had to have a second operation, this was around 6 months after the first one, after my consultant ordered a further MRI scan, as whilst I had made a reasonable recovery after the first one, he wasn't fully happy with it, the second scan did show that the disc was still a problem, but nothing like the first time around.
I'm hoping this time it has been sorted for good, but they say it can take several months and up to a year or even two for all of the numbness to subside.