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In reply to the discussion: I have had [View all]Squinch
(50,774 posts)10. For acute pain like that you want to shrink the tissues
so they'll stop abrading each other. Heat expands tissue.
Use ICE not heat. And put it on your lower back just above your sacrum, not where it hurts on your leg.
Everyone is right about the need to move but only move up to the pain and not into it. Every half hour. And NO rotational movements. Straight planes only: bending forward and back or side to side. NO twisting. Avoid long car drives until the pain recedes.
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Pain is no fun. Stretching usually helps me. And either CBD oil or cannaoil and a drink.
58Sunliner
Mar 2020
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When you say sciatic pain, you mean pain shooting down the back of your leg, right?
Squinch
Mar 2020
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