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Relief for neuropathy in feet and lower legs
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: May 7 9:06am | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
the surgery healed the sciatica!
I had sciatica for years (maybe 30) due to an accident when I broke my left tibia that has 3 screws in it to this day..
Accident was Jan3, 1973!
Back surgery was due to the accident that eventually caused sciatica. Yoga and working out in water kept me walking for years but not without pain.
Surgery created no pain...very nice but I now have a weak back that keeps me limited on how much standing and walking I can do. I can walk around but no serious hiking. I can stand around to bake a batch of something but then need to rest my back. I can do more yoga now and its about to be 5 years post surgery.
Your MRI will show what's happening in your spine and why you have painful sciatica. I hope they have a solution for you. I had no choice about surgery. There was no more cerebrospinal fluid flowing up and down my spine and I was going to be confined to a wheelchair if I didn't get it. So I did and I am still walking.
Good luck to you...sciatica is so awful. Turmeric helped alleviate the pain at times Also water arobics was good.
Thank you for your response!
Take care.
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@sbn4 Thanks for the positive post. I was actually asking for more specific information on what kind of surgery you had. Was it a fusion? Where was the surgery on your spine lumbar, thoracic, or cervical? I recently had a minor decompression surgery on my right side L4-L5, and my sciatica is also fixed, but now my left side is worse than my right side was before surgery.
I’m sorry you are experiencing neuropathy in your feet. I tend to believe most neuropathy comes from our spine. The fact that you had blocked fluid in yours for years seems to be a fairly logical explanation. I also have neuropathy from my spine, but mine improved after my last surgery, but has returned since I messed up the left side at the gym. Nothing seems to help much as you will see if you keep reading posts about neuropathy on this website. My favorite semi very temporary relief comes from walking around my grass barefoot. It’s called grounding, and hopefully I can move to Florida soon so I can do it all year. I’m in crummy Illinois now!