What is the pain for?

[Mum030709]

I have being sitting down alot today, though not solidly for hours on end..
I have a pain from my left hip to my toes, and it's really starting to drive me up the wall!!

Has anyone else experienced this?
Is there something I should be doing?
Walking on it seems to hurt more

[Toomanytoomany]

I have being sitting down alot today, though not solidly for hours on end..
I have a pain from my left hip to my toes, and it's really starting to drive me up the wall!!

Has anyone else experienced this?
Is there something I should be doing?
Walking on it seems to hurt more

It sounds like sciatic nerve pain - you can get some physio to help relieve the pressure on the nerve. In the meantime, heat packs on your hip may help where the pain is worst.

[tenar]

It does sound like sciatica. I get it, though not all the way down to my toes. It sometimes feels sharp, like a pinched nerve, and then there is an ongoing ache that lasts for hours or days afterwards.

I have started to figure out what positions I mustn't sit or lie down in, because they aggravate the pain. Problem for me is that I can sit for hours and be totally comfy, then when I get up the pain is there and I can barely move. So it's a question of realising after the fact that oh, that position was a bad idea, and remembering not to sit like that again.

For me I am now avoiding:

- sitting cross legged on the floor, or in fact sitting on the floor at all for any length of time
- lying flat on my back at night to read a book
- anything that puts too much pressure on my right hip area, since that's where it hurts.

Since I've been more careful about this the pain has pretty much gone away and it isn't a problem at the moment.

Good luck with yours!

[Pandora]

hmm.
I have it too but i wasnt thinking it was sciatic pain because it feels more crampy and achy, and the only time I have had sciatic pain it was like a numbness that made me collapse on the floor, cant feel my legs kinda thing.

makes me wonder now, might be taking my own advice..

Maybe ask your carer about it or see a physio or oseto - your carer might even be able to refer you to one thats associated with the hospital.

[Mum030709]

Hmm my gut was telling me it was that sciatic nerve thing, but I wasn't overly sure..
Today the pain has hardly being there, except for a hour or so when I was at my parents, this afternoon..

Thanks for the help