[Closed] Low back pain with pain in the thigh.

This one time in the ghetto I was shot at by some no-good gangbangers.
Got a slug in the spine and peppered my leg with 12 bore. It hurt a bit.
I was diagnosed as "GSW victim, multiple sites - mainly back and thigh"
I dealt with it by toughing up, hiring some 'heat', and capping those mo'fo's back....

DrP

(Sorry - I'm in a silly mood due to the sun!)

lol DrP! respec. back in yer cave SBZ.

took my keys out of my back pocket.
And some MTFUrophen

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Wearily shakes head in the direction of above, takes a deep breath and goes back to the back pain assessment.

Degenerating L5 disc that puts pressure on my sciatic nerve

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Physio.

Adopted a range of specific stretching/limbering excercises.

Occasional re-occurrence dealt with by visits to the osteopath/neurofen.

Is this all the time, or something to do with the new? roadbike.

Houns and Mr Woppit are on the right lines I suspect. L5 disc herniation is the likeliest cause particularly if the pain in thigh gets worse with walking. Other option is strained muscles and tweaked facet joint in the spine but this tends not to give pain in thigh. Had the former 4 years back and the latter last week!

Needs proper assessment and if confirmed a trip to physio.

MrsMM's lower back pain eventually diagnosed as her hamstrings being too tight....

I'd told her all along it was nowt to do with her carrying me of the last 3 years as my business gets going.... 🙂

I had to strengthen the right muscles and give my spine/connective tissue a rest, most of the time the lower back muscles are week, so you have compression issues.

My back is quite good now though!

I'm not convinced SBZ gives a shit!

SBZ, whatever it is don't go to a physio, bloody witchcraft that is...

I had it. Mechanical lifting injuries ( one of several) various treatments over the years including osteopaths. No prolapsed disc or anything else properly diagnosable, I can actually feel it right now.

took my keys out of my back pocket.

I used to get terrible back pain lifting trolls up to see at concerts.

I've missed the 'troll' aspect of this one...

SBZ, pretty much the exact symptoms I had for a couple of years, MRI revealed a herniated disc, but minor enough that I was able to overcome it with a hell of a lot of sit-ups on the pilates ball, the extra core strength held everything in place better and prevented the disc squishing out onto the spinal cord.

I've got a problem with this. One sided in my case, pressure on the nerve sheath, a bit uncomfortable. My spine is a generally a bit shagged though:

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don simon - Member

took my keys out of my back pocket.

Funnily enough I read a story some years ago about a guy with mysterious back pain, turned out to be provoked by sitting on his wallet! Wallet gone, backpain gone.

@ Don: I was being semi-serious, having developed mysterious sciatica symptoms which were cured by just this