Oct
the curvature of the spine be pressing on the sciatica making the sciatica worse? Please tell me what can be done to relieve the pain? Also what can you take as far as prescription drugs and otc medicine to help the pain?
Answer:
Hi Joan, I’ve the same problems. Since this is going to be a long answer I'll post this little bit here to explain what I know Okay?
As with any answer that’s medical in nature, I’ve to state that I’m not prescribing treatment for you because I am unfamiliar with your condition and not qualified to treat you even if I did know all about your condition. What I’ll be suggesting is just what has worked for me. However, I suggest strongly that you see your primary doctor before doing anything.
My conditions:
Degeneratve arthritis
Bulging disks
Spinal Stenosis
Scoliosis
Sciatica
The simple answer to your first question is yes. There’s very little room for our nerves in the passages and spaces between our bones in a healthy or unaffected body. When there is an abnormal curvature to an already sciatic condition the pain is worsened because of the more massive range of afflicted areas.
What works ideal for me is simply relaxing as much as I can during the recovery and treatment of the back. My treatment consists of using a cold pack for twenty minutes followed by a warm pack for twenty minutes. I do this cycle three to five times in a single stretch (depending of course on the severity of pain and the response to treatment).
There is no pain medicine in the world that you can get OTC that will make the pain go away, but I’ve found that anywhere from 400mg to 800mg of ibuprofen relieves some of the inflammation again, depending upon severity of pain and response to treatment.
Drink as much water as you can to flush the toxins from the area and try to do as little lifting and walking as possible. I also like to soak in a hot bath with epsom salts. Some say that epsom salt baths are a godsend, others say it's an old wives tale. I am somewhere in the middle.
I also do stretches but that's under the directions of my doctor and therapist. So, if you do that without consulting with your health care people you might aggravate things more. Also, when you are icing your painful areas, try to stay idle because the muscle tissue will be condensed and easy to injure if you go to do something.
Again, all this advice is relative to my experience in treating my conditions. Yours may be different.
Answer:
I’ve severe scoliosis and osteoporosis, I was in 2 serious automobile accidents which broke my c-2,c-6,c-7, t-7 t-8 were compression fractures so I had a halo for 6 months for 1 accident and the other fusion from t-2 to t-10 and a few years later after the accident in 93 my l-1 and l-2 discs ruptured out and I had to have that fused together so I’m in constant pain I take methadone which is a very strong long acting pain med & I take dilaudid for breakthrough pain, it is also very strong. I also take muscle relaxers. What do you take now? Do you’ve a regular pain doc? Have you learned biofeedback?, visualization, deep relaxation techniques?
Answer:
Morning before taking any thing drink warm water 4-6 glass as per body requirement.
Keep your stomach half filled
Keep your weigh as per you height
Maintain hemoglobin level as your doctor states
Take more fruits & vegetables
Use brown breads or whole grains products
Minimize dairy product
Do exercise or walking 30-60 minutes
Do yoga, Pranayam in place of exercise if possible
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