Me and my sorry ass
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:00PM My cell phone rings, and three minutes later I am diagnosed. Yes, my Kaiser Permanente doctor diagnosed me without even seeing me. I told her how bad my pain was on a scale from 1 to 10 and answered two other questions and the "visit" was over. I am not sure whether I should laugh or cry but I do hope their approach is driven by some strong statistics, and my sorry ass is not in bigger trouble than they think it is.
I had been running around trying to find out what is causing this strange lower back (a.k.a "upper ass") pain. Today I know that we all have a pair of sciatic nerves. They run from our spines down to each leg and let us move our legs and feel them. When something goes wrong around the neve (you have a slipped disk, an injury, or a tumor), a pressure on the nerve cause sciatica (a.k.a. "pain in the upper ass").
Sorry about not putting any photos with this post. As you can imagine, I could not come up with any photos to illustrate a sorry ass.
I'm going to now take my ass offline and do some stretches. Have a nice day everyone!
Reader Comments (3)
A proper diagnosis is very, very important when it comes to sciatica. Three minutes over the phone just isn't right for diagnosing someone properly because there are multiple things that cause sciatica. The name is a umbrella label for several conditions affecting the sciatic nerve that lead to pain. For example, is it specifically piriformis pain you have? In that condition a tight piriformis muscle in the hip puts too much pressure on the sciatic nerve as it passes by, irritating it causing pain. Another possibility is a herniated disc pinching the nerve as it comes out of the spine. And there are several other potential conditions. I talk about how to identify which of these causes is affecting you and how to relieve the pain, with an emphasis on the most common form of sciatica, piriformis syndrome, on my website Piriformis Pain Relief Techniques That Work
Hope this helps.
Thank you Jevaughn, it was very informative!
Glad I could be of service! :-) You can check the website for more info and solutions if you need it going forward; I'm regularly updating it right now.
Stay healthy.