sciatica stops play?

I think I may have sciatica
When I cycle it doesn't hurt,
Am I making it worse though?
I have pain in my left buttock, leg, sometimes down to the foot.
Grrr
When I cycle it doesn't hurt,
Am I making it worse though?
I have pain in my left buttock, leg, sometimes down to the foot.
Grrr
Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
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A quality adjustable stem, to get you more upright, may help you to still cycle. An Oval R710 allowed me to do some cycling, once I was confident that my lower back was not likely to go into spasm while descending Lances Hill or Chessel Avenue.
My GP prescribed me diclofenac to cope with the agony. For the first four months or so, I was dependent on the max dosage of three a day, but then I was able to take them less often. Just make sure you do not overdo things for the sake of your back's recovery, as strong painkillers will mask any damage you are doing while drugged up!
2020 Voodoo Marasa
2017 Cube Attain GTC Pro Disc 2016
2016 Voodoo Wazoo
To get things loosened up in your back might need some rest, stretching, physio, blah. But if its any consolation, its a fairly familiar cycling niggle.
numbnuts?
I found that a set up good for a couple of hours on the bike is murder for 4+ hours.
Lots of pain killer with wine or beer and rest, feet up watch TV that sort of thing, in fact your in luck because the track champs are on at 7pm then of course this weekend is the start of the F1.
You do like F1 right!?
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
I'd settle for a graphic pen picture
What would Thora Hurd do?
Ta for the heads-up on the track cycling ont' telly - I hadn't clocked that.
F1... is that a Cervelo model?
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Thanks for the info about numbnuts - I am however confident that I will never get these
Nah. It's a Felt, I think.
Linsen - I'll pm you.
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Bike 2-A
You have feet, right?
(although unless someone is in the process of kicking you in the nuts, the pirineal artery doesn't go anywhere near feet - its just a correlation I've.... ahem.... noted).
Pain does indeed go down into my foot and having been okay today I have just walked to school and back to fetch children and it now hurts again.
Haven't changed the bike set-up in the last 500 miles, so I'm puzzled it's all happened now....
Linsen, you have become invigorated by the joys of spring, and thereby become slightly broken. It happens to me most years. I plan to try to make it happen this weekend.
NP cav's up tonight lets hope he does a better job than yesterday :?
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
I get my best injuries don't nothing mostly, I'm not sure how that works.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
See your GP ASAP....you 'may' have a prolapsed disc...sciatica is a major sign. If your GP says you do....ask for an MRI ASAP...and when you are waiting dont see a physio,chiro or anyone else...stay off your bike until you know the score. Please dont let anyone mess with your back until you have an MRI scan
I didnt do any of the above and 9 months later after 2 epidurals im just getting back on the bike..had a prolapsed disc..try to run/cyle through it and paid for it also 12 courses of useless physio
just to add...my sciatica was down through my buttock, down my right thigh and 'pinched' on the right of my knee...down through my calf and into the small area to the right of my ankle bone..then down to my two smallest toes.....
classic symptons of L5/S1 prolapse
Ah well bizarrely, throughout the winter I have cycled many more miles with more vigour - perhaps that's the problem!
In seriousness, there COULD be all manner of nasty things going wrong, but its so common in cycling to get niggles of this type (its a fundamentally unnatural thing to do in all honesty and on top of that its repetitive) that in the first instance I'd not worry, and just try the obvious things.
You've not been cycling for all that long, in the grand scheme of things, so you might well be encoutering the first consequences of things that have been slightly amiss from the outset.
I think you need to replace your saddle with this though -
Slightly less padded than your current saddle
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
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