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<blockquote data-quote="locutus" data-source="post: 219654" data-attributes="member: 43477"><p>have recurrent episodes (with no back pain). , this is 3rd year. usually self resolves, but takes 2-3months to do so. been trying to keep it off. here is what I've researched, and I would be curious if you had success with it. </p><p>1) Physical therapy - temporary improvement, but does not seem to speed up healing, good for back pain but not sciatica</p><p>2) chiropractic care - completely useless IMHO</p><p>3) NEUROMD device - doesn't seem to do much if acute. probably helps back pain.</p><p>4) time and patience only thing seem to help (and managing the pain)</p><p>5) I had no surgeries, and am not super excited to get one. my MRI does show NO disc herniation pressing on nerves, it does show some typical disc degeneration</p><p></p><p>pain management:</p><p>1) NSAIDs - all completely useless (diclofenac maybe slight improvement) </p><p>2) opioids - tramadol barely touched it, codeine/tylenol #3 - fairly good pain relief, docs bitching about prescribing long term, I only would take this for sleep</p><p>3) lidocaine patches - they actually do seem to work, 60% relief. </p><p>4) DMSO 70/30 gel - sometimes it works amazing, sometimes not at all</p><p>5) st johns wort topical oil - same as dmso gel</p><p>6) some other topicals - all useless</p><p>7) dmso 50/50 injections in buttocks - this actually helps! especially if tense muscles make pain worse</p><p>8) medical MMJ - makes is 500% worse and sends me straight to hell</p><p>9) infrared heat - some help, but makes it worse sometimes</p><p>10) ice patch - some relief</p><p>11) acupuncture - temporary relief</p><p>12) massage - no change</p><p></p><p>I did read this book as well, (John Sarno, healing back pain) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446392308/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection: Sarno MD, John E.: 9780446392303: Amazon.com: Books</a></p><p>and I'm inclined to believe that this back pain/sciatica is not mechanical in nature, in fact this whole thing started with stress. the author claims that most pains are due to what he calls 'TMS', which are repressed emotions which lead to oxygen depravation in specific tissues. this is why surgeries fail so many times, they do not address the correct issue. there might be exceptions to this of course. I'm in process of working through the topics in this book, and do not have any update on this yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="locutus, post: 219654, member: 43477"] have recurrent episodes (with no back pain). , this is 3rd year. usually self resolves, but takes 2-3months to do so. been trying to keep it off. here is what I've researched, and I would be curious if you had success with it. 1) Physical therapy - temporary improvement, but does not seem to speed up healing, good for back pain but not sciatica 2) chiropractic care - completely useless IMHO 3) NEUROMD device - doesn't seem to do much if acute. probably helps back pain. 4) time and patience only thing seem to help (and managing the pain) 5) I had no surgeries, and am not super excited to get one. my MRI does show NO disc herniation pressing on nerves, it does show some typical disc degeneration pain management: 1) NSAIDs - all completely useless (diclofenac maybe slight improvement) 2) opioids - tramadol barely touched it, codeine/tylenol #3 - fairly good pain relief, docs bitching about prescribing long term, I only would take this for sleep 3) lidocaine patches - they actually do seem to work, 60% relief. 4) DMSO 70/30 gel - sometimes it works amazing, sometimes not at all 5) st johns wort topical oil - same as dmso gel 6) some other topicals - all useless 7) dmso 50/50 injections in buttocks - this actually helps! especially if tense muscles make pain worse 8) medical MMJ - makes is 500% worse and sends me straight to hell 9) infrared heat - some help, but makes it worse sometimes 10) ice patch - some relief 11) acupuncture - temporary relief 12) massage - no change I did read this book as well, (John Sarno, healing back pain) [URL="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446392308/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection: Sarno MD, John E.: 9780446392303: Amazon.com: Books[/URL] and I'm inclined to believe that this back pain/sciatica is not mechanical in nature, in fact this whole thing started with stress. the author claims that most pains are due to what he calls 'TMS', which are repressed emotions which lead to oxygen depravation in specific tissues. this is why surgeries fail so many times, they do not address the correct issue. there might be exceptions to this of course. I'm in process of working through the topics in this book, and do not have any update on this yet. [/QUOTE]
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