Ouch!!! My Back and Leg are Killing me!

Jeeze, Im only 24 weeks and already i am having sciatica! it start in my backs and runs right down my right leg! Has this happened to any of you at this point in pregnancy? OUCH! what did or do you do for the pain? TIA!

Message edited 12/30/2007 6:28:31 PM.

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i just started getting this recently, and the only relief that i've found is laying down and relaxing....

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ive had it since like 6 wks...its awful!!! there isnt alot you can do either just try and relax!

Message edited 12/30/2007 7:26:08 PM.

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walking helps it. I was on weight management and had to walk 3 miles a day. Once I had the sciatica I took a few days off...then I had to start hobbling with it. It soon went away.

also, I alternate hot/cold on it.

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I am 19 weeks and 5 days, and I have started feeling the same type of pains. I'm just trying to make sure that I work out and stretch.

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I have a history of trouble with this nerve that started for me in high school with a gymnastics injury, so it started bugging me around 14 or so weeks of the pregnancy. I found walking to irritate it. I too thought it would help so I made an attempt on the treadmill for only like 10 minutes at 3.0 mph (which was a very short and slow amount for me - pre-preg I was 30 minutes min at at least 4.0). I was in so much pain after that walk I was in tears and DH had to rub my lower back for me. I still find even when it seems to not bother me that if I walk too much the pain starts again.

As soon as we clear our living room of the holiday stuff I plan on trying a prenatal yoga video, I'm hoping the stretches will relax the muscle that's pinching on that nerve. Pre-preggo me would have eaten a bottle of advil by now, but obviously can't do that. I'm hoping that a few yoga tries and I'll be back on the treadmill in small bursts at slow speeds.

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Thanks ladies! I am gonna try the heat and cold. I was also thinking of seeing a chiropractor, but i am nerveous about having my back messed with. I think the yoga idea, may be very helpful as well, i will look into that too.

Thanks again!!!

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Welcome to the club! I'm 24 weeks and my lower back aches and I get leg cramps up and down my legs (usually in the early morning).

I was feeling great up until the last week or so!

I guess we knew this was coming!

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I had that in the first trimester of both pregnancies. It HURTS.

Hope you feel better soon.

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Just a little update - I woke up yesterday with the pain shooting down BOTH legs yesteday and a stiff neck yesterday - made for a great New Year's eve day...

So I popped my new Prenatal Yoga with Shiva Rea (got on Amazon.com) last night. By the time it was done I was not 100%, but I did feel a good deal of relief in my upper back/neck and the left leg/back and I do think that if I do this DVD every day for a bit, I may actually get back on the tredmill in a few weeks. My right side is still pretty bad, but that was the original side. I have to go a night without the pillow wedge too to try to get my neck back in shape.

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The last couple of nights I have been sleeping with my legs slightly elevated (using a pillow) and I haven't had the leg cramps that I've been getting...