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Originally Posted by SIK
I had lower back pains (no sciatica) for like 10 years or so, only did massages and cold/hot cremes to ease the pain, only ibuprofen rarely
since 3 months ago, I developed full blown sciatica down the right leg.. hurts like a motherfucker but I'm still not taking pain meds.. as stupid as it sounds, I just thought it is a "bad period" and it will eventually just pass
but it didn't, hence physio and MRI showed 8mm bulge into sciatic nerve (but judging from what you wrote, your pains were much worse)
so.. yeah, I'm looking into options to fucking END all by back pains with surgery
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Pain killers don't do a lot, for me laying flat, ( had pc on floor hehe ) and anti-inflammatorys were best.
Size of the bulge is not relevant to the pain experienced, depends where its hitting on the nerve and how much space you have in your spinal canal.
Sciatica is nerve compression, long term nerve compressions leads to permanent nerve damage, I HIGHLY suggest you go see that surgeon ;)