sciatica for months
sometimes it just goes away like that? I've had a few times, the fix for me was to keep moving. If I sat in bed it never fixed itself. That constant pain can really fuck your mind up though, people can imagine pain but they simply do not understand day 3 of having zero sleep, you really do start wanting to die at that point.
I don't think acupuncture is entirely woo-woo, because I can get rid of headaches by rubbing the dimples above the eye socket, and I've noticed that nerves on the feet seem to influence other areas; but I would try a chiropractor first because IME that always works.
It does.
But sometimes, it's also muscular on which case the chink bullshit may help.
The muscle tenses up more and more causing pain.
So you need to massage, relax the muscle.
You can do this with pain pills. The muscle falls asleep and breaks the circle of pain.
Or, you massage it and shoot it with electricity to make it tired and it stops tensing.
Sciatica is nerve related. But it affects the muscle around it.
I normally avoid taking pills but yes, in that case they are required to stop the body freaking out
Especially painkillers. I ve only taken them for my sciatica and one out of the three times I broke my leg dirt biking.
I'm avoiding substances over all. I used to even be afraid of coffee. Terrified about the idea of needing coffee to be myself, or even wake up.
Sleep deprivation is psychological torture. Both because of the direct physical effects of not sleeping, and the psychological feedback loop it creates (no sleep increases cortisol > cortisol decreases sleep > repeat until you're hallucinating > repeat until the underlying issue is resolved so you can sleep or...really bad things WILL happen).
This is why you should maintain an ongoing relationship with a good physician so they know you're not exaggerating if you tell them you havent slept in X days. That relationship is going to be the difference between them thinking you're just drugseeking and them prescribing benzos or opiates so you can get a good night's sleep and come back tomorrow to discuss treatment options without being so loopy from sleep deprivation that you can barely string a sentence together.
you can barely string a sentence together.
I had to call an ambulance once and the paramedics were ploughing through the usual list of stupid questions, and I just really struggled to answer them and felt myself getting really irritable with this process. They kept asking me if I had been drinking or had taken any drugs because I was slurring my speech.
You'd imagine that a paramedic would be aware of what it's like to to be 72 hours into this and to quit expecting me to answer stupid shit. If I could have walked I would be stepped out and driven myself just to avoid talking to them.
Luckily I fall sleep in minutes and am dead to the world for 7 hours, but I only realised a few years ago that my quality of sleep was shockingly bad and that normal people weren't tired all day long. I was nodding off on the motorway at this point. Fixed now, and I feel 20 years younger
Fixed how? I didn't sleep for one and a half years, almost none, from benzo and opiate withdrawal.
I know the feeling. I had a viral inner ear infection once that caused debilitating tinnitus (imagine post-explosion ringing coupled with dental drills inside your head 24/7). After a week of poor sleep and another week of <1 hour of sleep per night, I started taking my spouse to medical appointments because I sounded like a drunken Alzheimers patient.
I'm glad you got your sleep sorted. It's a night and day difference to go from poor/no sleep to a solid night's sleep.
I was the biggest skeptic ever, thought it was a waste of money but my good fren swore it helped his son, who had the same exact condition. It never bothered me again. I believe it can help for SOME conditions.
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