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Chronic Sciatica
What is Chronic Sciatica?Chronic back and leg pain is a condition which affects patients regularly. The pain might be there all the time, from the first moment a patient wakes up in the morning, until the last thing they experience before sleeping at night. The pain might also come and go throughout the day, based on position or activity level. Some patients with chronic symptoms do not have pain everyday, but have regular recurrent bouts of acute sciatica attacks. When this occurs often enough, the condition is both acute and chronic at the same time…Generally, any patient who must endure either constant sciatica pain, or regular recurrent attacks of symptoms, already truly understands how chronic pain can destroy a life… Chronic Sciatica SymptomsAs mentioned often throughout this site, every patient is likely to demonstrate a unique and personalized version of symptoms. Some chronic radicular pain patients endure years' worth of mild daily pain. Other patients suffer from regular acute episodes of blinding agony, but have few symptoms in between. Still other patients have severe constant pain which completely disables them, often limiting them to a homebound existence. On top of this burden, a few patients endure severe constant pain with occasional acute attacks which push their already unbearable pain over the limits of human endurance. These poor patients are often hospitalized during the worst attacks.Chronic
sciatic nerve pain
can demonstrate many characteristics. It might be dull and achy, shooting and
burning,
severe and limiting, variable or patterned, located in a particular area or wide spread… My Chronic Sciatica StorySciatica was one of the first dorsopathy symptoms I dealt with, dating back to the age of 16. Originally, the radicular pain condition was blamed on scoliosis and degenerative disc disease, but cleared up in a matter of months. For several years, I did not have a large amount of daily pain, but I did suffer episodic acute attacks which would completely cripple me with severe pain and muscular spasms. After being diagnosed with 2 herniated discs in my early 20’s, the severity of the acute attacks worsened considerably. Within a few years, I was experiencing considerable daily pain, in addition to regular acute flare ups. As my condition progressed, the chronic pain got worse everyday, but the acute attacks decreased in regularity. Instead, the pain was simply there all the time and became the focus of my life…Looking back, now I completely understand how and why my pain changed. I understand why it eventually became my controller and why I could never cure it with the wide variety of sciatica treatments I attempted. Luckily, instead of being a lifelong slave to ongoing symptomatic therapy, I found a true and permanent cure. Life has been so much better since then… No more treatments. No more doctors. No more expenses. 7/8/08 Revised 12/10/09
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