@martyk Do you have any stenosis in your neck or spinal cord compression in the cervical area? That can be the source of sciatic type pain, I did have some sciatic pain that was generated from my cervical spine. I did have a bulging lumbar disc, but it was not pressing on anything. My first symptom of cervical cord compression was a pain in my ankle when I turned my head and then it stopped when I looked forward again. That was because of a bone spur pressing on the cord and that progressed further over a couple years to more symptoms leading to my surgery. This was confusing to several surgeons who didn't understand the connection.