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Siatic Patient with NEW problems

I am a 44 year old male who has suffered from Siatica for 25 years. I've learned what to do, how to do it, and so far, I'm still walking. I've reinjuried myself numerous times in the past many years. I've had 7 MRI's, XRay's to many to count and Therapy from everyone. I've been on numerous medications for spasms, pain, and the rest. I've also been given Requip in the last year as I'm suffering a type of RLS. But this deal here is completely new. I'm looking to get an idea of what it might be, not the answer.

In Aug of 2007, I started to wake up and my thighs and calves felt as if I had just got done running a marathon. I never wakes me up, and starts within 20 minutes of getting out of bed. Usually 4-5 days a week at first, now more like once or twice a week. Nothing takes care of it and the pain stays around for at least 2 hours. I've tried heat, massage, streching.....everything I've learned from the Doc's for 25 years and nothing works.

I saw a Neurologist for the VA last week and she is setting up another full MRI, ENG and I have several XRays. She says that since the siatic nerve is underneath the thigh, this problem isn't being caused by it. Since it's on top, she's hoping to find something in the films and such. I've got more than enough things already wrong with me due to all the back injuries I have to both sides of my body. I should mention, I have no knee jerk or ankle jerk either leg. Nerve damage is on the outside of both legs to where I barely feel a pin prick.

So, hopefully that's enough to work with, if not, ask away!

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Sorry to hear of all your trouble. I know what you go through. It is kind of hard to follow what all you got going on, however I think you were saying that you wake up and within a few minutes develop pain and other sensations in the back of the legs? It lasts for a couple of hours and none of the learned stretches, exercises and various other Mckensie activies that you have been taught seem to help when you perform them in an attempt to obtain relief?
It goes away on it's own after about 2 hours
It happens about 3 times a week.

What are you doing when you notice that it is beginning to ease up? If the pain is quite severe I would assume that you are quite aware of it beginning to ease up, are you getting relief from standing, sitting, lying on ice packs, what is it that you are usually doing when it stops hurting.

On the days that you feel the pain do you remember doing anything out of the ordinary the night before? For instance, my wife if she drinks more than about 2 beers in an evening, will wake up with her neck all stiff, severe headache and so on, perhaps you are doing something that is triggering this.

My guess is that it is something that you do, like sitting in a funky position as a pd dispatch? Or perhaps, you are sleeping in a worn out bed and that is letting you get out of wack at night.

Exercise? At all?

lets just go thru the list like this and see if we can pin it down and see what is causing this, or what we can come up with to help it.

Good luck and No More break dancing!!

SA TexicanI wake with the problem. It hits me within 15-20 minutes of waking up. BUT I sleep soundly, always have. I've never woke in the middle of the night from pain. My bed is only a year old and firm. I can't find anything that seems to relieve the pain. But the pain is on the top of the leg. The siatic nerve is underneath and the doctor says both problems aren't as a result of something they have in common. My thighs and calves feel like I've run a marathon.

I have kept a log to see if I had done something the night before, to which I can't identify a thing. As far as my job as a Dispatcher, the City has been very nice in getting me a comfortable chair and I do walk around whenever I need.

The pain disappears within a few hours by itself and I've tried different things to, perhaps, relieve the pain or make it go away altogther, but if I take meds or if I do excersise's, it's still there for a few hours. Standing, lying on the floor, or heat massage, or and ice pack. Nothing.

Since the pain is more on the top of my legs, the Neurologist thinks with another MRI, possibly another EMG and a few other tests, she might be able to figure out what the cause might be. Having siatica, you learn what you can and cannot do, so I never press the issue when my body gives me that signal to cease what it is I am doing.

I have three different spasm medicines I take for other problems, and I also am on Requip for my legs. I even take the Requip before bed so it works all night.

But I'd love to have some type of answer as I won't be doing the tests for a few months. That's how it goe with Uncle Sam. It has slowed down alot in the past few months and it now only happens maybe 1 or 2 times a week. Weather? I don't know, I've lived in Michigan, Oregon, Alaska, and now, Texas. Texas is alot colder than anyother place I've lived and that's no lie! I can't find anything on the Net soooooooooo............. Help!

I got notification today that I have a full body MRI and a Doppler Radiography scheduled for next week. Unfortunately, I had this same thing done 2 years ago and they said nothing was there.

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