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I think all on here have not taken me seriously that my moderma booster shot blasted my femoral artery,I have said damage was done to blood vessels and Cleveland Clinic proved it.
Last week I was going to call my vascular surgeon but was busy with other problems.
The surgeon is the one to call,DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis in rear of calf,blockage,not to dangerous but continual pain.It can be detected with imaging,duplex venous imaging with other tests available if necessary. You pushed me long enough to find this,I have had this since mid December 2021.
Well, if you are convinced about the cause of your problems and have gotten proof that backs up your beliefs, not sure what you are expecting to get from people here?
I think all on here have not taken me seriously that my moderma booster shot blasted my femoral artery,I have said damage was done to blood vessels and Cleveland Clinic proved it.
Last week I was going to call my vascular surgeon but was busy with other problems.
The surgeon is the one to call,DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis in rear of calf,blockage,not to dangerous but continual pain.It can be detected with imaging,duplex venous imaging with other tests available if necessary. You pushed me long enough to find this,I have had this since mid December 2021.
Hopefully one of the doctors will find the cause. I think your beloved wife would want you to focus on healing your pains.
Those injections were great for my sciatica. It stopped it for close to 10 years. I now only get it when I do way too much to where my back, butt and leg spasms start going off. That's when my day is ended. Take a sleeping pill to sleep it off.
I am no help...but, my heart goes out to you...don't suppose you could sue...?
A hot water bottle to relax the gluteal muscles surrounding the sciatic nerve?
Once warmed up, gently slowly stretch?
Best wishes.
I am no help...but, my heart goes out to you...don't suppose you could sue...?
A hot water bottle to relax the gluteal muscles surrounding the sciatic nerve?
Once warmed up, gently slowly stretch?
Best wishes.
Dan just buried his wife of 67 years. They would probably say that he can't prove it's a direct result, and that at his age, many people have sciatica.
Diagnosis: little/no pain while sitting/walking for hours, but burning pain down one leg after standing still 10 seconds.
Doctoring: Before you let them do anything, ask for a referral to a Physical Therapist. I went to PT 3x/wk for a month, got a lot better, continued with daily home exercises a few more weeks, and it was completely gone.
Future: It suddenly poppod back up a year later, but resolved forever after a few weeks of the home exercises.
Well I wasn't going to keep posting on this subject,first my primary care doctor useless,might as well talk to a dead horse,this has been going on for almost a year.
Take a look at the Cleaveland Clinic,Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) report,very interesting seven pages with options,I will talk to my Vascular surgeon about the imaging test,if o'k will look at other optionc,not life threating at this point.
Will say again how cruel dementia had been to my wife,shut her breathing down according to report.
Well I wasn't going to keep posting on this subject,first my primary care doctor useless,might as well talk to a dead horse,this has been going on for almost a year.
Take a look at the Cleaveland Clinic,Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) report,very interesting seven pages with options,I will talk to my Vascular surgeon about the imaging test,if o'k will look at other optionc,not life threating at this point.
Will say again how cruel dementia had been to my wife,shut her breathing down according to report.
So sorry for the loss of your bride Dan. Hugs Sorry your GP is useless. Take care of yourself.
My understanding is that the cause if sciatica is, or may be, your musculature. In your lower back, there is a 'saddle' of muscles that cushion your sciatic nerve where it leads out of the vertibrae. When this cushion atrophies, the nerve can be pinched or abraded by other body parts, like bones.
PT can be used to redevelop your lower back muscles and rebuild this comfy saddle.. I'm thinking it is a miracle that I stumbled on medical people who knew this and were responsive to it.
A little more background. I went to my Doc, he Xrayed, found Sciatica, no stenosis. Rx-ed me for Gabapentin (which I certainly did not need) and waved me off to see a pain specialist.
Meanwhile, I happened to read CR's current issue, whick featured back pain. In order of patient satisfaction, PT was ranked #1, and surgery and steroids lowest.
How does a pain doc make money? $75 office call for referral to PT, or thousands for shots and surgery and follow up?
So, first thing my pain man does is start waving needles around. Can I try PT first? "Sigh -- Oh, alright". The rest is history.
There seems to be much difference of opinion as to the diagnosis of sciatica. My understanding of sciatica is that it is a painful condition of usually one thgh because the sciatic nerve is being pinched from one cause or another as it leaves or enters the spinal card via a gap between vertebrae in the lumbar area.
The most common cause seems to be due to degeneration of the inter-vertebral discs as we get older. You’ll notice that many of us shrink in height with age and that is because our discs at least become thinner as we get older. And you’’ll notice that we spread outwards like a concertina as this happens because our softer tissues remain at the same volume – hence ‘middle age spread’.
But sometimes the opening or openings between the vertebrae become so close that they become inflamed and interfere with the sciatic nerve (for example). Anti-Inflammatory drugs helped me remarkably when I had sciatica in my early 50s.
The shrinking of the intervertebral discs could be a natural aging phenomenon, but I have reason to believe that it is mainly due to impairment of the circulation in the lower aorta and lumbar arteries from atherosclerosis. I can supply references to an association between such impairment and lumbar back pain if anyone would like them.
But then again, in this OPs case, it may not be sciatica at all. The association with detected ‘deep vein thrombosis and the suspicion of blocked arteries below the knee tend to rule that out.'
I personally almost lost the use of both legs because of a medical misdiagnosis. When I had a dead or wooden feeling around my lower right calf area in my 70s, it was off-handedly diagnosed as ‘diabetic neuropathy’. The diagnosis just flowed so effortlessly out of the mouths of both my GP and a Cardiologist I had to see a week later that I did not question it, even though I did not have fully developed diabetes.
About 10 years later I developed osteoarthritis of the right ankle and could not get around without crutches because of the pain. I decided to have the bones of the ankle fused, believing that a çlub foot’ would better than a wheelchair around the house. The surgeons were willing so long as a vascular surgeon cer'tified that there was enough circulation for the operation to heal.
For the first time, my lower aorta and my leg arteries were ultrasounded in about 50 locations. All arteries were either partially stenosed or occluded. I had severe peripheral artery disease.
I have no idea why physicians are loathe to use ultrasounds, but in the OP’s case, they would have shown deep vein thrombosis and it sounds as if something did. They would also show if any other arteries were occluding.
It is my opinion now that ultrasounds for the detection of vascular problems should be used as a first diagnostic step in all suspicious leg problems, and I wouldn’t hesitate to ask for a referral for such from my GP.
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