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Anyone else suffer from this? For me, I have it on the "mild" side according to doctor- doesn't feel mild, that's for sure. All on the right side of my body (though creeping left), burning in lower right of back above hips, down through hips/groin, inner right leg, around the knee, burning shins/calves, numb/burning/cold foot, sore ankles. On bad days, I start getting nerve pain up my back towards my shoulder, down my arm/wrist/fingers. Side note, but I have mild epilepsy and likely sensitised my nervous system through use of anticonvulsants when I was younger. I get migraines with some frequency, and get nerve pain throughout my body. I've had trigeminal neuralgia, and regularly have inflamed/sensitive nerves in my face. Currently, I have electric shock sensations in my fingertips whcih is only noticeable when typing. It seems my nerves are shot!
The sciatica is especially evident if I sit for too long; standing and walking and exercising don't seem to represent a problem.
Anyway, I'm prescribed a bit of stuff for this. Pregabalin 300mg daily which I am hesitant to take due to past addiction to GABAergic type drugs (hence I take it every few days during bad periods), tramadol of which I've never had my script filled due to opiate addiction. Pregabalin helps but opiates don't do much; I am a regular user of codeine and it doesn't do much but take the edge of*. Anti-inflammatories do very little though I take curcumin for antioxidant and anti-inflam purposes and it 'might' be helpful.
*I have considered that nerve pain was a very common symptom of opiate withdrawal for me so I wonder if constant cycling in and out of daily codeine use is lowering my pain threshold or simply disabling my natural endorphin system.
What has really helped has been yoga stretches, very regular walking, adjusting my sitting posture and strengthening my core.
I am wondering if anyone else experiencing such a thing has any tricks they've come up with to combat the symptoms, preferably non pharamaceutical but anything is of interest.
The sciatica is especially evident if I sit for too long; standing and walking and exercising don't seem to represent a problem.
Anyway, I'm prescribed a bit of stuff for this. Pregabalin 300mg daily which I am hesitant to take due to past addiction to GABAergic type drugs (hence I take it every few days during bad periods), tramadol of which I've never had my script filled due to opiate addiction. Pregabalin helps but opiates don't do much; I am a regular user of codeine and it doesn't do much but take the edge of*. Anti-inflammatories do very little though I take curcumin for antioxidant and anti-inflam purposes and it 'might' be helpful.
*I have considered that nerve pain was a very common symptom of opiate withdrawal for me so I wonder if constant cycling in and out of daily codeine use is lowering my pain threshold or simply disabling my natural endorphin system.
What has really helped has been yoga stretches, very regular walking, adjusting my sitting posture and strengthening my core.
I am wondering if anyone else experiencing such a thing has any tricks they've come up with to combat the symptoms, preferably non pharamaceutical but anything is of interest.