i'm wondering if anyone else has expereince neurotis pain on the inside of your leg from the ankle to the thigh . It feels like a hugh charlie horse and it hurts big time. (I was told it was sciatia on the inside of my leg caused from my back? ) My family doctor put me on topamax but it makes me so confused like I have no clue where I am at. Has anyone else had pain like this. This has lasted over 2 1/2 weeks now, I will be calling my ortho tomorrow. But I'm wondering how do you deal with this. I tried the heat and ice , plus rest nothing is helping me at the moment http://www.healthboards.com/ubb/eek.gif

I had the same symtoms inside my leg down to the ankle, which was nerve pain coming from my L 3/4 with spinal stenosis and I no longer suffer after surgery. Spinal shots, physical therapy make matters worse. Surgery was definitely on the horizon, nothing else would do. But beware, once surgery is performed the spine compensates for the bad disc and then it's like the domino effect, but without surgery the doctor told me I was wheel chair bound. There is not much relief for nerve pain other than to go in and release the nerve compression, I mess with this over a year & only became worse before my surgery. Hope this helps, God Bless, slimmy

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Hi Isillyme,

If you are willing to try our my suggestion, I may be able to help you out to partially or totally relive your pain / prblem:

It seems that you are experiencing Sciatic Nerves entrapment. These Nerves start from your lumber area ( L5 / Sacrum ), go through your buttocks area, around your upper leg bones, splits in two, go around both side of your knees, down on the outside of your lower legs and to your feet. Any of the pain that these nerves are causing will be felt in all or partially in those areas. By the way, those Sciatic Nerves, at your buttocks, are almost the size of your thumbs. It is the most common type of Back Pain and easy to have. It does not require very much strain to have this Injury / Pain. If caught early enough, it is the easiest one to fix otherwise, it may require many sessions of Massage Therapy. If you are willing to try this Method that I am using on my wife and many of my Clients: " It requires three person, including yourself, to use the special technique. On a very stiff bed, you lay straight on your side, bracing yourself with one hand to sturdy yourself, one person puts his/her hands against your lower back spine so that it does not curve and the third one grabs both of your feet together and brings them forward as far as possible toward your belly then, brings them back down in the same manner to where they were. You then, lay on your belly, the second person holds your lower back spine again and the third person grabs one leg at a time, does not matter which one that you start with, moves it straight outward as far as possible and back then, the other leg in the same manner and back. At that point, you should lay there for a few minutes to catch your breath and then, get out of the bed from your left or right side and not forward. This method should fix your Sciatic Nerve entrapment.

The next thing that you should do and it is extremely important, is to get on a kitchen table and do the following exercise that I will try to describe to you as follow:

Lay and rest your upper body on the table;
Extend your arms forward to hold yourself on the table;
Put both of your leg and feet together;
Lift both of your legs/feet up slowly as far as possible;
Hold;
put both of your leg and feet back down slowly;

Do as many as you can and repeat as many time during the day and for many more days to come. You will have strenghten your back and as long as you exercise, this Sciatic Nerve problem should not reoccur again to you. You should keep doing this Exercise to keep your back in shape.

You should print this technique so that you do not forget the way it is done. If this technique is not followed to the letter, you will get a lot of pain by its improper use.

Hope that you follow it properly and that it works for you.

Good Luck and God bless