Good luck.
I pinched a sciatic nerve back in September and it essentially had me out of commission for over a month. (Fortunately for me, when I'm out of commission, no one else notices.)
To say the least though, it was NOT fun. The first two days I could not even get out of bed. And then for a week I was walking bent over at the waist at a 90o angle.
I finally went to the doctor once I was mobile enough to get there. He essentially said that these things normally get better on their own, but it could take up to 90 days.
He told me he could send me for an MRI, but regardless of what they showed, the treatment would likely be bed rest.
I sure hope yours is just a muscle pull, AR. In the meantime make sure to get some anti-inflammatories and pain killers.
Ouch! Painful. In 2007 I did the same in my right leg and suffered for months. It took me over a minute just to get out of the car and straighten up.I couldn't sit at my desk for more than a few minutes and I stood up for most meetings
I spent a fortune with chiropractors but all they could do was give relief that lasted a short time.
And then a guy I worked with gave me a book written by an American GP, Dr. John Sarno M.D. called Healing Back pain. And it changed my life. Because at that point I had suffered all sorts of back, neck, shoulder and arm problems going back years.
What this Doctor wrote astounded me. He asked what possible cause could there be for an explosion of patients coming into his local practice complaining of these back related problems - had the human race suddenly developed a weakness after thousands of years of evolution?
Then he started thinking back to the 60's and 70's and the explosion then in gastric ulcers and how they had largely gone away now.
He also noticed that back sufferers had also previously suffered headaches, frozen shoulders, acute heartburn, depression, dizziness, asthma, eczema, hiatus hernia, peptic ulcers and other similar complaints.
He concluded that there was a very strong mind-body connection and that getting pains in these places is "normal" and they will dissipate in time but that the pain (which is real) is a manifestation of you dealing with stress in one way or another. He believes that the ulcers he saw in the 60's were now being replaced by back related problems in the 90's and the statistics seemed to prove that.
Since I read the book, it has truly changed my life. I still get back problems and twinges but I now tell myself that I know whats causing it and that its my body's way of dealing with the crap of life we sometimes have to deal with. As a result, I have been free of such pain for the longest period in my life. It cannot be coincidence. However, it won't help genuine injuries to the back, it's only sciatic nerve and muscular pain that mysteriously develops where the book helps most. And you either "get" this book or you don't - it seems to be an attitude of mind as much as anything else that counts.
Here is the link to the book in the UK Amazon list:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Healing-Bac...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231316153&sr=8-1
Interesting to read the reader comments!
Legend has it he only existed in a parallel universe.
I may take a vacation in February depending on the circumstances.