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God Bless YOU, Sandy !

Yes, urinary tract infections can make your lower back

hurt, alot ! !

Irritable bowel syndrome can also make your lower back

hurt, alot ! ! !

If your lower back and sciatic nerve are inflamed, it can

make you numb.

Follow your gut, by all means, if you feel you need to go

to the ER and be seen, do it ! ! It is ALWAYS better

to be safe, than not.

Much Love and healing to you ! ! ~~ Dede

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What You Need to Know About Sciatica

The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain and possibly tingling, numbness or weakness that travels from the low back through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of the leg. The vast majority of people who experience sciatica get better with time (usually a few weeks or months) and find pain relief with non-surgical sciatica treatment. For others, however, sciatica can be severe and debilitating.

The clinical diagnosis of sciatica is referred to as a "radiculopathy", which means simply that a disc has protruded from its normal position in the vertebral column and is putting pressure on the radicular nerve (nerve root) in the lower back, which forms part of the sciatic nerve.

An important thing to understand is that sciatica is a symptom of a problem—of something compressing or irritating the nerve roots that comprise the sciatic nerve—rather than a medical diagnosis or medical disorder in an of itself. This is an important distinction because it is the underlying diagnosis (vs. the symptoms of sciatica) that often needs to be treated in order to relieve sciatic nerve pain. Common causes of sciatica are:

a lumbar herniated disc spinal stenosis degenerative disc disease spondylolisthesis

Fig 1: Diagram of sciatic nerve(larger view)

Sciatica Symptoms

Sciatica Symptoms

For some people, sciatica pain can be severe and debilitating. For others, the sciatica symptoms might be infrequent and irritating, but have the potential to get worse. Usually, sciatica only affects one side of the lower body, and the pain often radiates from the lower back all the way through the back of the thigh and down through the leg. Depending on where the sciatic nerve is affected, the pain and other sciatica symptoms may also radiate to the foot or toes.

One or more of the following sciatica symptoms are typically experienced:

Pain in the rear or leg that is worse when sitting

Burning or tingling down the leg

Weakness, numbness or difficulty moving the leg or foot

A constant pain on one side of the rear

A shooting pain that makes it difficult to stand up

With sciatica, low back pain may be present along with the leg pain, but usually the low back pain is less severe than the leg painSciatica symptoms occur when the large sciatic nerve is irritated. The sciatic nerve is the largest single nerve in the body and is composed of individual nerve roots that start by branching out from the spine in the lower back and combine to form the “sciatic nerveâ€.

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