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zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Ok, so I went back to the Doctor today to get a proper diagnosis. It turns out that there are 2 things wrong with me:

1. SMS
2. Foraminal stenosis

The latter basically means that the space for my sciatic nerve isn't big enough so it's getting pinched. The former stands for Stupid Man Syndrome.

The latter can be 'cured' with an operation to shave away the bone but I'm in no rush to get that done! The former is sadly incurable.

Does that mean you have symptoms of sciatica? Or is it different?

Sorry about the SMS. Had it for decades. It worsens with time. Not even sure if gender reassignment surgery can cure it.:o

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Does that mean you have symptoms of sciatica? Or is it different?

Sorry about the SMS. Had it for decades. It worsens with time. Not even sure if gender reassignment surgery can cure it.:o

I guess I do. What I have is pain and pins and needles in my legs and sometimes feet. I seem to have stopped picking my feet up properly when I walk so they often catch on uneven pavements and things which causes muscle spasms which stop me dead in my tracks and sends a pain shooting up my spine.

When it's bad I get pain in other bits that I'd really rather not have pain in.

SMS is a terrible affliction brought on by chromosomes.

So I have a referral to a rheumatologist who works out of a centre with physiotherapists and stuff. The GP was very negative about the future which was quite hard to take but what I plan to do is be like one of those people in the films that goes out and finds out everything that they can about their illness and then sorts themselves out. Even if it's not effective it'll keep me busy!

lostinrates

Gen, my sciatica is caused by something different, but muscle relaxants are better than muscle spasms IMO, and while I personally don't do well n them I'm getting much better ATM and don't need them but a prolonged muscle spasm series is no good for any thing.

Some times back surgeries are bad ideas, sometimes they aren't. I'd look at your options here. For me no surgery would make a difference, but if you have a narrowing spinal canal and there is something that can help relieve this with out causing more aggravation I'd consider it.

I'd throw yoga in to the mix for helpful tools and the right massage therapy regularly. Anything that helps keep you mindful on good posture and also helps release muscles well.

A further possibly unwelcome suggestion, tension and negative emotions sit in muscles often. Making them tense tight. Dealing with any of this in a non physical approach might also have surprising benefit to the symptoms if not the cause. Sciatica and back pain are symptoms so if you can deal with it through a combination of the above you might not need to tackle the cause.

Oh, normal dietary approach too you know a more than enough to look at that! But neutrceuticals can help. My equine vet mentioned a couple of years ago something to do with soya oil and avocado oil. Our olders ( dog dog and horses) are all having tumeric daily now, ( dog dog is probably going to have an arthritis jab and neutraceutical).

When I first joined here I could often not feel below hips so compromised were my nerves, now I pretty much always do. . Have a few blank outs. Not so many. Many dead spots and really far away things ...feet, hands. Sciatica cramps across lower back is truly limiting, worse IMO than pain down the bum to the leg/ ankle. Don't feel stupid about it, it can feel crippling.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Years ago when I had my sciatica I was told there was surgery, but I'd stand a good chance of being in a wheelchair for life, so it wasn't an option, of course that was 30 years ago when we still used witchdoctors. But, in the event, one day mine just stopped and never returned. But mine was a trapped nerve, rather than being a space and part being mismatched.

Mine stopped, by magic, after 10 years, and hasn't returned and it's been over 25 years since it stopped. Mine was aged 17-27.

Sciatica is a symptom. So lots of things can cause it. Somethings are operable, somethings there is an operation for but its not necessarily best course of action in most cases and some things aren't operable. Some are multi factoral. . Ultimately what I'm saying is, its a but like saying my foot hurts. Lots of things can make a foot hurt, from sitting on it too long to having had a bullet through it.

lostinrates

Gen, if you get the muscle cramps and can stand to lift legs, a good no med way to ease them out is to rol around on a rug on the floor with your Knees to your chest, useing the floor to massage those lower back muscles. Only if it won't compromise your spine though.

Generali

Thanks LIR. I need to get this as sorted as I can. It's weeing me off already and it's just been a few months. The pain in the bolox is the worst.

I was thinking of how I cure cramps by pulling my foot up towards my shin like footballers do to each other on the pitch and it reminded me of an old joke told about all sorts of players but which I first heard about Gordon Strachan.

He's on his debut for Scotland and playing badly. The manager calls him over and says, "Hey Gordon, if you donnae step up yer game I'll pull yer off a' half time".

"It's an amazing set up you've got here boss", says Gordon, "At ma club we only get an orange!".

I'm re watching the film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. What a film. I'm batch cooking chicken pie filling whilst it's on.

hjd

Generali wrote: »

I'm re watching the film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. What a film. I'm batch cooking chicken pie filling whilst it's on.

I read that as b1tch cooking.
Sounds interesting, I thought!

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

They shouldn't but they do. It's simply not possible to stand and stare at your kids all day every day for 3 years.

Especially if you have more than one of them.

GDB2222 wrote: »

My eldest brother was found crawling across the Zebra crossing near my parents' house. He was carried back into the house by a bus driver! After that, they built a miniature POW camp in the back garden, and he was incarcerated there.

DS escaped from a friend's house when he was about 2. We thought her house was child-proofed but neither she or I had realised that he could reach the lock on her front door, or that he knew how to work it. He went down the little path at the end of the cul-de-sac on which she lived and made it to the main road. Fortunately the council had put a fence opposite the end of the path, and he turned to go along the pavement rather than straight across the road, so he was none the worse when we caught up with him.

Generali wrote: »

Yeah, I got into trouble for my approach to risk when the Generalissimos were little. The Girl used to like to crawl up to the front end of the pram and hang over the edge so she could see more. I used to push her like that down Fleet Street and walk past waves of disapproving looks.

Me too. DD was determined to climb things, and was following her brother onto the "big children's" climbing frame at the park (as opposed to the toddlers' one) by the age of about 11 months. I remember one time when she was 3 and getting very wriggly in church, I directed her to go and climb on a sort of carved wooden screen/partition thing that went across the front of a side bit of the church building. She was perfectly safe IMO - only a couple of feet off the ground, with nice soft carpet to fall onto, not that she ever fell when climbing anyway. A concerned adult went and "rescued" her and brought her back to me! That afternoon was the first time she went over a six foot brick wall - climbed up one end of it with the help of the open car door, walked several yards along the top of it to the other end, and down onto some piled up garden chairs on the other side. That did scare me a bit, and I wouldn't have let her if I'd seen it, but I didn't. I was unloading stuff from the car and momentarily out of sight when she decided she'd go over the wall into the garden rather than following me into the house.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

You are going to have to try a lot harder before we would sooner see you not here

Indeed.

Nikkster wrote: »

Edit: Just counted, I have 11 eggs; best before 22nd. Will probably keep a couple for next weekend. Unless I can get through all 11 before then!

IME eggs last ages after the date printed on them.

GDB2222 wrote: »

PN is Saturday your last day for eating the eggs, or do you go past the sell by dates if the food looks fresh?

Eggs look much the same...

Make sure they sink in water as suggested by michaels.

Generali

hjd wrote: »

I read that as b1tch cooking.
Sounds interesting, I thought!

Ah yeah, I do b1tch cooking too. I cook a meal after a really crappy day at work and go on about it to Mrs Generali over a glass of wine.

I got bloody sunburnt again today. I left my good hat in England annoyingly. I think I'll have to buy a new one this week. We were up at my SiL's new place. It's a lovely area, amongst the lakes to the North of Sydney rather misleadingly called the Central Coast. Unfortunately it's full of Bogans (Red Necks) so I suspect we won't move there. The Generalissimos stayed up there while Mrs Generali and I came home.

It was my nice's birthday party. It really does my head in: MiL and FiL are both diabetic. They've both had to have knee replacement operations which are quite probably related to diabetes or obesity and now MiL is going to have a cataract operation, again likely because of her diabetes. I calculated that she had 180g (6-7 oz ) of sugar from soft drink alone today plus countless cakes and sweets. She reminds me of the people that I saw when I was having radiotherapy who were standing outside the cancer ward smoking. Oh well, her funeral.