Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Health & Healthcare => Topic started by: sue mac on March 25, 2016, 18:28:17 PM
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on our way out next week...hubby currently suffering with a horrendous bout of sciatica but as usual in the uk we are waiting weeks for physio, have had to request an MRI and are fighting the gp to get a prescription for Gabapentin! Anybody suffered with this and had any results from any sources out there....tia
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I have had Sciatica twice. I feel for him so painful. Mine only lasted few days maybe 5 at most. I took nurofen, heat pad and occasional walking as I found it more painful after sitting. I read recently that a tennis ball placed in the area of Sciatica when you sit or lie relieves the pressure. All worth a try.
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I've had a it a few times. The only thing that works for me is plenty of gentle walking and as little sitting down as possible.
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I had it once. It was a pain in the arse.
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Same as KKOB for me - gentle, steady walks and although I get "your not going to bed already are you?" from Gill - sitting too long is the worst thing for me :(
Currently lying in bed with hot water bottle on the base of my back in Calis :)
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Sciatica is awful, your hubby has my sympathy. :( Have suffered from it on and off for years. As you've probably found out, most over the counter painkillers have little, if any, effect. As others have said, sitting down for too long usually makes it worse so he needs to try and keep taking gentle walks as often as possible. Heat pads can help a bit, but it may depend on the severity. Good luck.
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Have you tried a trip to osteopath. I could hardly walk in there, and went shopping when I came out of tgere best £30 ever spent. Hubby was sceptical, but I talked him into going and he was well impressed.
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An ice pack (wrapped in a towel) at the base of my back to reduce the swelling, gentle walking or gentle excercise on an aerobics ball. At its worst, I used a chiropractor.
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Had it and it is not nice. Not saying I have a perfect back now, but I tried everything, chiropractors, hospital, heat pads, this and that cream,etc.. The best thing I found for it was a set of stretching exercises - gentle at first - carried out everyday ideally on the floor if you can get down. Took a number of weeks of these exercises but in the end the sciatica went, though the back problem that caused it is still there. What is not good for you is doing nothing in exercise/stretching terms. You can 'build' your own stretching routine using some of the exercises/stretches shown on You Tube. I keep up the stretching now a couple of mornings a week, combined with Boxerdogs fitness classes.
Out of the 'practitioners' including a course of hospital treatment was a sports physio, the others did little to get rid of the problem, at best helping with some pain relief. But if you find something that works for you, you don't care who or what it is.
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I had mine treated with traditional Chinese Acupuncture. The pain was gone the same evening and I have never had it since, 20 years.
Western Acupuncture is nowhere as good. Some of the needles had a Chinese moss wound around, lit, and left to smoulder. I could
feel the heat traveling down my leg.
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I started to get it on my left side in early 2015.
Quickly realized that sitting on a hard chair when on computer was the cause.
Was free until about 4 months ago when it came back on both sides after a vigorous day in the garden.
Now try and keep it under control with lots of walks and anti inflammatory tablets
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I did a heck of a lot of driving for about 3 years and suffered regularly with it on my right-hand side. That was until I realised that I always had my wallet in the rear right pocket of my trousers. Once I stopped carrying it there the number of twinges I got reduced dramatically.
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I did a heck of a lot of driving for about 3 years and suffered regularly with it on my right-hand side. That was until I realised that I always had my wallet in the rear right pocket of my trousers. Once I stopped carrying it there the number of twinges I got reduced dramatically.
That would have been all the moths bulking up your wallet KKOB ;)
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I did a heck of a lot of driving for about 3 years and suffered regularly with it on my right-hand side. That was until I realised that I always had my wallet in the rear right pocket of my trousers. Once I stopped carrying it there the number of twinges I got reduced dramatically.
That would have been all the moths bulking up your wallet KKOB ;)
Aren't you glad I set that one up for you ? ;)
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Thanksis for all replies. Since that post he is now on 900mg of gabapentin per day and 8 co codamol per day. Doing absolutely nothing for his pain, which is worse down his leg, in his Buttock and where his ankle meets the foot We are now in ovacik for ten days and seriously thinking of getting some treatment here, as MRI not scheduled unnoticed 16th may in uk. And he is literally in agony, and uable to walk properly. We have been advised letoon , or to see guy at ocean blue? Anybody any ideas on cost of an MRI or X-ray here? Than k you.
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My husband suffers from spinal stenosis often further aggravated by sciatica. He was on Gabapentin - didn't help, it just made him sleepy. He can't take Nurofen or Brufen due to effect on kidneys - took co-codamol but didn't help much, also tried acupuncture to little effect. Hot compresses followed by cold gave the most relief. Operations to help free the nerves and compacted discs are now out of the question and walking makes the pain worse!
Really feel for you both.
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I could feel the heat traveling down my leg.
I often have a warm feeling that travels down my leg. ;)
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Have you mentioned you bladder problems to your GP KKOB.? ;)
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I suffered from fibromyalgia and went to Tai Chi classes which worked wonders even after one class. There were people in the class who found that doing Tai Chi eased their sciatica a lot. I was amazed how effective Tai Chi was in helping lots of painful conditions. I wish there were more classes available.