How have you been feeling?
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"I got the motive, which is money; and the body, which is dead!" - Rod
Steiger as Sheriff Gillespie, "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.

What's the old saying, "I feel like I've been shot at and missed and
then the rest. Most of my problems for the last two months are related
to this !@#$%^ pinched sciatic nerve. Then my chiropractor goes off on a
skiing vacation for a !@#$% week. I am going in at 0800 for therapy, get
on the roller bed andlet it massage my back and then they hook a bunch
of galvanic stim pads to my hip and leg and electrocute me for 30
minutes. It does help though, probably almost as much as 500 mg of
tylenol every four hours does. I go from feeling okay to a lot of pain.
I think warm weather would help, it's 39F here this morning. Thank you
for asking.

George

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> How have you been feeling?

George Shirley wrote:
> But what is the temp today? Supposed to get up to about 60F here
> today.


Twenty-six degrees and raining. And a bit breezy. (I would have said
something a lot colder, but you wouldn't believe me now that Barb
blabbed about it being 50.)


> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
>> Should come here. It was 50 yesterday.

Shhhh! Or you should have said it was -10. We've got an image to
maintain. ;;-)

Best regards,
Bob

George Shirley wrote:

> What's the old saying, "I feel like I've been shot at and missed and
> then the rest. Most of my problems for the last two months are related
> to this !@#$%^ pinched sciatic nerve. Then my chiropractor goes off on a
> skiing vacation for a !@#$% week. I am going in at 0800 for therapy, get
> on the roller bed andlet it massage my back and then they hook a bunch
> of galvanic stim pads to my hip and leg and electrocute me for 30
> minutes. It does help though, probably almost as much as 500 mg of
> tylenol every four hours does. I go from feeling okay to a lot of pain.
> I think warm weather would help, it's 39F here this morning. Thank you
> for asking.


Butting in here but I've had bouts of sciatica so I totally sympathize.

One medication that I've found that helps is Robaxin - Robaxacet (one is
generic, which I fergit), it's a non - narcotic back muscle relaxer that
helps with those UGLY spasms. It's OTC in Canada so I order it from there,
the generic version is cheap, about the same price as Tylenol (do a google
search)...

What's really a drag about sciatica is that there is no real "cure" or
medication regimen that you can control with it. It comes and it goes at
it's own stubborn whim...

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Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:

> George Shirley wrote:
>
>
>>What's the old saying, "I feel like I've been shot at and missed and
>>then the rest. Most of my problems for the last two months are related
>>to this !@#$%^ pinched sciatic nerve. Then my chiropractor goes off on a
>>skiing vacation for a !@#$% week. I am going in at 0800 for therapy, get
>>on the roller bed andlet it massage my back and then they hook a bunch
>>of galvanic stim pads to my hip and leg and electrocute me for 30
>>minutes. It does help though, probably almost as much as 500 mg of
>>tylenol every four hours does. I go from feeling okay to a lot of pain.
>>I think warm weather would help, it's 39F here this morning. Thank you
>>for asking.
>
>
>
> Butting in here but I've had bouts of sciatica so I totally sympathize.
>
> One medication that I've found that helps is Robaxin - Robaxacet (one is
> generic, which I fergit), it's a non - narcotic back muscle relaxer that
> helps with those UGLY spasms. It's OTC in Canada so I order it from there,
> the generic version is cheap, about the same price as Tylenol (do a google
> search)...
>
> What's really a drag about sciatica is that there is no real "cure" or
> medication regimen that you can control with it. It comes and it goes at
> it's own stubborn whim...
>
You're right about that last, yesterday was a pistol, laid around and
moaned a good part of the day. Felt like my body was going to split
apart at the waist. Today I feel pretty good but I took my Darvocet
anyway and now I feel much better. <VBG>

George

Gregory Morrow wrote:

> George Shirley wrote:
> > What's the old saying, "I feel like I've been shot at and missed and
> > then the rest. Most of my problems for the last two months are related
> > to this !@#$%^ pinched sciatic nerve. Then my chiropractor goes off on a
> > skiing vacation for a !@#$% week. I am going in at 0800 for therapy, get
> > on the roller bed andlet it massage my back and then they hook a bunch
> > of galvanic stim pads to my hip and leg and electrocute me for 30
> > minutes. It does help though, probably almost as much as 500 mg of
> > tylenol every four hours does. I go from feeling okay to a lot of pain.
> > I think warm weather would help, it's 39F here this morning. Thank you
> > for asking.
>
> Butting in here but I've had bouts of sciatica so I totally sympathize.
> One medication that I've found that helps is Robaxin - Robaxacet (one is
> generic, which I fergit), it's a non - narcotic back muscle relaxer that
> helps with those UGLY spasms. It's OTC in Canada so I order it from there,
> the generic version is cheap, about the same price as Tylenol (do a google
> search)...
> What's really a drag about sciatica is that there is no real "cure" or
> medication regimen that you can control with it. It comes and it goes at
> it's own stubborn whim...

Not so Greg. If you got it all the time, you probably got a squashed disk in
the spine. Some people swear by acupuncture. And we got all kinda new
micro-neurosurgery tools make the hospital stay pretty short for spine surgery.
But once they start operating, the scar tissue that can forms can squeeze
nerves, too. But to be free of pain for many years, boy that's sumthin'.
Personally, I've learned to lift up little parts of things, garden from a
chair, take frequent rest breaks, and wear orthotics in my sneakers - it really
helps. And I have a very old mother's medical book (c.1831) that swears by warm
lettuce poultices, but I have not tried that.
Edrena