Sciatica. Anybody have or had it?... Does it go away?... Diagnosis and treatment in Thailand?
Had it for about 2 months now and it doesn't seem to be improving. I never thought that putting on a sock in the morning could be so painful.
The cause was when I strained my back while I was in hospital with dengue fever a couple of months back. I went against all the rules of manual handling when I sat up in the hospital bed and leaned down and twisted to pick up my daughter and sit her on the bed. Since then I have had pains down one side of my back which stretches to my left arse cheek and sometimes into the leg.
I have read the usual medical websites including the UK NHS page that seems to be filled up with stories of people suffering from it for years and on a constant dosage of pain killers.
Might try a cocktail of nurofen, codeine, tramadol and diazapem when I get home to Thailand... see if that sorts it.
Hopefully if I go for a scan then a doctor could identify something like a herniated disc that could be operated on to fix it.