irritated sciatic nerve
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Oh boy! Talk about some serious, constant pain that is unbearable and I almost think about cutting off my leg!! Yea, that bad!!
It all started in October while I was doing leg presses. I bumped it up a notch, as we all do, and at my last rep… RIP!!! Yea, it felt like someone stabbed me and ripped the lower portion of my back. I got up and hobbled to the locker room and headed home. I laid in bed for the rest of the day and just thought I’d sleep it off with a few Advil. Nothing new to me. Just another back pain. The next day it felt better, I continued my day and was just careful about picking up stuff and bending. I stopped doing legs for a while, well at least leg presses and squats. Since I’m training for a marathon I still ran my 6-12 mile a day and got up to about 16miles. Everything was fine. Two months went by and I still had some pain so I called up a masseuse to stop by the house. She worked my back and right leg for an hour. She found these knots on my right glut and thigh and was just working it out. She said she needed to come back and get rid of that knot. WELL!!! Thanks to her, I no longer have back pain… BUT I do have a pinch sciatic nerve that hurts from my glut all the way down to my toes. I don’t know what she did, but that knot got bigger on my thigh; my foot swells up so much I have to take off my shoe and I’m numb from knee to ankle, yea like as if my leg went to sleep (needles), but constantly; all day; never going away type of needles.
SO! It’s January 2008 and I’ve seen a therapist; been give instructions to do exercises and stretches; plenty of rest and just wait it out. I can hardly run a mile and the marathon is coming up on the 13th of this month and as determined as I am - if I gotta walk 26 miles, my God I will!!
Any suggestions from my Bodybuilding friends??
Thanks,
Joey
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