Hi Mary, thank you so very much for your words of
support. Yes, my gut feeling was to go for surgery.
Hopefully it was the right one which only time will
tell. It is hard to distinguish between before surgery
and after at the moment, there is still a fair amount
of pain in the same area. Once the surgery pain has
gone I will know better. You might remember I had a
blood clot in my leg in 97 ? I was thinking about
that a lot this week and the blood vessel clusters
wrapped around the sciatic nerve that were removed.
It is a known fact that veins are able to "recanalise"

or reroute after a blood clot and to even grow new
ones to handle the diverted blood flow. I am wondering
if the blood vessel clusters were a result of new
growth after the blood clot episode ? The sciatic pain
started about 3 years after the blood clot in the same
leg. It is just a theory that I intend to talk to the
surgeon about when we meet at the end of April.

Again, thank you very much for your knowledge and
support. James.


--- Mary Smith <filmfest12@...> wrote:
> James - I am so happy for you! What an amazing
> story!
> Assuming the doctor is correct, the cause of your
> pain
> could not have been diagnosed or treated effectively
> without surgery.
>
> Your gut instinct that you had to try surgery proved
> so accurate.
>
> Your experience shows that sciatica and pain in the
> piriformis region is not necessarily piriformis
> syndrome. I think so many people are misdiagnosed
> and
> that is why standard piriformis treatment doesn't
> help
> them.
>
> Now we know why muscle relaxants didn't help you -
> because muscle spasm was not clamping down on the
> nerve.
>
> Hope you have a speedy recovery and can back to
> normal
> soon. Truly a happy Easter. Mary
>
>
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