Think it’s scartica

[LISaprag]

Can scartica ache the whole leg and in feet

[Lolabridge]

Yes! I attended a podiatry workshop this week and the doctor told us it can.

[Matilda_1922]

I going to say yes too as the sciatic nerve runs down to the feet

[LISaprag in reply to Matilda_1922]

What about on the front of leg

[oldtimer]

It would be sensible to get a diagnosis from someone who can tell you where the nerves go - you could see a physio, or osteopath, or someone similar and they can also give treatment and advise on suitable exercises and care.

[nomoreheels]

Sciatica can vary in symptoms, it's a general term for pain which radiates down the back of the leg, just off centre, from your lumbar region down to your bottom, thigh & on to your foot. Being down the front of your leg would point to other causal (nerve related) pain, could be referred pain from elsewhere even. Have you thought about if it could be femoral, that runs down the front of the leg? With having RD inflammation can also cause nerves to be pinched or compressed causing pain so it's not something we could say for sure it's this or it's that (from experiences) as only an examination will determine what is causing your pain from where it originates & a possible solution. As neurological pain is so varied it's best to get it checked out by your GP or, if you see one regularly or due to see one, your Physiotherapist.

I hope this helps you Lisa & it's not a difficult road to diagnosis.

[BonnieT]

I had this type pain some years ago. Several days into the pain and taking a med the doc gave me for sciatica, I broke out in a rash on my one leg only. They said it was shingles and would run it’s course. No meds. Four doctors later and six months later. Still in severe pain. Finally a dermatologist saw me and gave me a steroid cream that finally started healing the oozing blisters on my leg and foot. That was the beginning of my peripheral neuropathy. A bunch of stupid doctors could have prevented this.

[medway-lady]

I have Shingles now 5 weeeks ago spent 3 days in hospital on antivirals and strong pain relief as I'm stage 4 Kidney Disease. Sent home and given pregaliiin 2x a day it really works I can't have full dose but it takes the edge off. Mine is bottom of spine and down left cheek into knee. Hurt so much but I've been given good meds by hospital and followed up by GP with blood tests weekly. You should have had antivirals and pain relief too. When in hospi

tal I was in isolation and given morphine too, I'm so sorry you've not had better treatment.

[Fruitandnutcase]

Yip, when my back was bad years ago I ended up with sciatica in my right leg. The nearest I could describe it as was like toothache in my buttocks. The pain went right down the outside of my leg and crossed over somewhere around my calf until it went into my big toe. It was absolute agony.

I used to stand in the shower and I knew I was washing my leg because I was doing it but my leg felt kind of numb and I couldn’t feel what I was doing.

Sciatica is extremely painful, like I said real agony. I used to say to my husband that I wished someone would just cut the nerve that was causing the pain but he said if that happened then my foot would flop! Not sure if that’s true or not.

I used to spend a lot of time lying on my back on the living room floor with my legs bent while my two little boys and their friends used to run round and step over me. I even have one of those special back seats on rockers which was pretty comfortable to sit on but still didn’t ‘cure’ the problem. Eventually I went to a specialist privately and had an MRI scan which showed what was causing the problem, I had a couple if cortisone epidurals and that worked for many years.

When it eventually flared up again I had occasional sessions with a physiotherapist that helped while I was having them, I even had acupuncture which I’m not sure helped all that much. I did find a really good piriformis exercise through Dr Google that I could do to release a lot of the pain.

Eventually the physiotherapists at my local hospital changed and I found an absolutely marvellous physiotherapist who diagnosed and fixed a displaced pelvis, she pushed it back gave me some exercises to do, she recommended a massage therapist who I saw every week for a while and she also told me to start Pilates classes which strengthens your ‘core’ which in turn helps everything else. I did that and since I started doing Pilates which I still do - it must have been at least 25 years ago all this happened - I’ve never needed to go back for physiotherapy.

If I do get an occasional twinge in my leg I lie on the floor on my back and do my piriformis exercise and that fixes it. Hopefully you can find a physiotherapist who can help you too.

[LISaprag in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

Thanks that helps a lot I’ve been docs many times and they have t suggest to do a mri or refer to a physio they just keep telling me to do these excersies which I do and sometimes they help but the pain in back of leg and calf worries me it’s something else sometimes I get pain in buttock which comes and goes and around the hip area I don’t get a lot of back ache it’s more in the leg and round the front of the shine bone

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to LISaprag]

Might be worth suggesting your doctor refers you to a physiotherapist - you could just say you only want to know that you are doing the exercises you have been given correctly.