My Treatment for Sciatica

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Like most men I tend to ignore any aches and pains until they become really really bad.  For years I had played rugby, mountain biked, ran marathons and sat in front of a desk hunched over a keyboard all day.

Unless it put me out of action, I didn’t bother seeing a physio or quack for anything.  It’s not by chance that Doctors are called quacks!  Once they can cure the common cold I might have more respect for them.

Anyway, as my kids were born I seemed to get too busy to do the fun physical activities, I ended up working harder and harder and spending any non-work time with my kids and family.

It was around this time that I started to experience back and leg pain - just heading into my forties.  It all came to a head for me when I was walking down my local high street holding my toddler’s hand and he saw something, wrenched his hand out of mine and ran towards the road.  Using my cat like Ninja reflexes I twisted and lunged after him.  What happened next was so frightening I wake up these days dreaming about how lucky I was not to lose him.

It was as if a great axe had been thrown at me and hit me in the lower back taking out my legs and throwing me to the floor like I was a puppet who had had its strings cut.  I felt the most excruciating pain and collapsed on the pavement unable to move.  I managed to shout out my son’s name through my back pain and he stopped just before he got to the busy road.

I didn’t know it at the time, but what had poleaxed me was sciatic nerve pain.  I was lying there on the pavement unable to move, in so much pain I couldn’t think straight and what did people do for the first few seconds? Walk around or step over me!

I held eye contact with my son and willed him to walk towards me.  I felt so helpless that the pain in my back had turned my world upside down.  Eventually a nice lady worked out what was happening, held my son’s hand and stood next to me while the sciatic nerve pain slowly subsided.

Being a dick I didn’t see the doctor straight away until the nerve pain had happened a few more times.

Anyway, long story short I got fed up after a while of taking the strong pain killers my doctor gave me for my sciatica nerve pain relief and decided I wanted to find a cure for sciatica.

Eventually I did, but it wasn’t easy.  I wrote a sciatica blog about it which hasn’t had many visitors. Infact I have passed on my treatment for sciatica to more people via word of mouth.