I know just how you feel, I was never in an accident like that but I
have the sciatic nerve condition also. The pain starts in your
buttocks and then travels right down the leg. In my case it is the
front of the leg more than the back of the leg and it travels all the
way down to my feet and ankles. You are right, it is the worst pain
ever. I don't know about the cream, I never heard of it. Most
people that have this condition take some kind of pain medication or
pain therapy of some kind. I also have three bulging discs in my
back also. Which does not help the situation. I work and I am on my
feet at least 8 hours a day. The mornings are the worst as far as
pain. I guess because you are still mostly while sleeping and it
tightens up, I can barely walk in the mornings and get to work on
time. It loosens up after about three hours of being on my feet, but
those three hours I am in agony. I am supposed to go to a pain
management doctor the beginning of next week, because I cannot
function this way day in and day out in pain all the time.

Feel free to e-mail me anytime because that is what we are here for,
for the support and all the info we can get on this. It is a
miserable condition.

Love, Jean



--- In piriformissyndrome@yahoogroups.com, "pumpkin422001"
<pumpkin422001@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all - I don't know if this is the right place to be but here
goes.
> This summer I was in a horrible motorbike accident in which I ended
up
> with two broken legs and collarbone - I was in hospital for six
> weeks. I was healing up just fine and was even ditching my walker
for
> short periods. Then all hell broke loose and all of a sudden I had
> these painful twinges down the back of my legs. This situation
> worsened to where I could barely walk and was using my walker full
> time again. I had no idea what was wrong but figured it would just
go
> away. After a week of agony I finally saw a doctor and was told it
> was likely my sciatic nerve acting up. I had never had such pain
> before - even my broken bones didn't hurt like this. My doctor
> prescribed some cream for me (diclo) to apply twice a day. That
has
> helped a little and the pain is only down one leg now. What else
can
> I do?
>
> - Heather K.
>