As you age, you become familiar with this (LANGUAGE WARNING)

[True Dough]

^ The answer: BEING SORE!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

1. In long term care most likely

Too old to boogie, barely able to eat, in pain, neglected by family who want to know what they get.

It's a paradise we created. Thank goodness for financial planners.

[Walleye]

2. I'm having so much sciatic pain when I get up in the morning I can barely walk. It brings me to tears.

Takes a couple hours to even work it out. Still I’m glad to be alive though so far.

[True Dough]

3. OUCH!

Hang in there, Walleye! The only support I can offer is moral support, and I hope you're feeling relief already today.

[Walleye]

4. Yes, thank you. Moral support is important and I have worked it out enough to make the bed and so forth.

Unfortunately, it’s too damn cold to go out and take even a little walk. I think that would help. really do appreciate your sympathy, though.

[True Dough]

5. I've always heard

that if it's at all possible, just keep moving! So if you can manage that walk, go for it!

[soldierant]

18. A TENS unit helped me.

It doesn't have to be very expensive even. I realize that whatever the condition, there is never one single thing that works for everyone who has it.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Have you tried stretching?

I bought a cane for when I had a flare-up of my pain because of my scoliosis. Then I discovered stretches and they are amazingly easy and very effective.



I do the first one at the top on the left in bed before I get up as daily prevention.

❤️

[Walleye]

7. Thank you I'll try and do them. It's been kind of rough.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. They really helped me a lot. ...

I used to have to shuffle across the floor with my knees bent, hunched over with the cane to move around when I had bad flares. I have not had a flare since I started stretching. I hope you find some relief. I know how bad it hurts.

[Marthe48]

14. I had a rough time with sciatica years ago

The dr. I had said there is a muscle by the sciatica nerve, that in 20% of humans, splits to both sides of the nerve. When the muscle is irritated, it swells, so in 20% of people, the sciatica is pinched between those two swollen muscles and hurts like hell.

I got intense physical therapy at a sports medicine center. I would go in and they laid hot weights on the affected area, then did a massage that, while it hurt, also felt good. I was able to show my husband where the epicenter of the pain was, and he did a great job giving me massages at home. I also did a lot of exercises, after the massage at the center and then at home. Some of them were on the chart littlemisssmartypants posted. At the end of my treatment, one of the therapists said I should get an excercise ball, one of the big ones you can sit on.

Just sitting on the ball is passive exercise to strengthen your back muscles. But there are several exercises you can do with the ball. I still have mine, but don't use it like I used to.

I was lucky to get therapy and advice. I will still have trouble with my back in general (the O.P. for sure!) but try to pace myself. My icepack is my friend. So is my hotpad.

Feel better!

[Clouds Passing]

17. .....

[10 Turtle Day]

19. My sciatica flared up so bad a few weeks ago I could hardly walk

My primary care doctor gave me an Rx for a taper down regimen of prednisone and that knocked it right out the very first day. Sometimes you just need something to make the inflammation go down so you do those stretches that will help keep it at bay. I hope you get some relief!

[Walleye]

20. Thank you I'll ask my doctor for that if it doesn't get any better. I guess I'm not the only one experiencing this.

[Niagara]

9. The jackass and absolute fuckwaffle were bothering me last weekend

After I chiseled ice off the sidewalk and driveway with the snow shovel to make it safer for walking.



I ended up doing some stretches from Dr. Rowe that seemed to help me.

[True Dough]

10. Some irony there

You were trying to ensure safety and yet you come away from it with some significant soreness.

Life, it ain't fair!

[Niagara]

11. Absolutely, True

I'm going to assume I hurt myself between the chiseling and throwing the ice off the snow shovel.


I'm feeling much better now though!

[True Dough]

12. Good to hear, Niagara!

You're a snow tiger!

[Niagara]

13. "Roooooaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[Marthe48]

15. Post a chart of the P.O.S. lower back

I have some choice names for several places that turn on me, usually when I least expect it!

How about the meme that says, When I was a kid, I'd jump off the garage roof and land on concrete. Now, if I drink water the wrong way, I have to wear a brace for a week

[Clouds Passing]

16. I have got to start doing core strengthening like yesterday!