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  "description": "Life Update 4/26/26: Sciatica is killing me . Please don't read this if you're in a bad headspace",
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  "textContent": "Typed this whole post on my phone so I hope spelling and grammar is ok.Had a hard time doing headers and formatting so it's just paragraphs, sorry . (Ghost really needs a native Android app)\n\nLife has been absolute hell lately. Most recently I have had an absolute huge sciatica flare up. I went to the hospital in a ambulance on Friday night April 17th.I was in excruciating pain to the point they were measuring my vitals , I honestly barely made it to the ambulance itself. Having almost healed myself from a injury from six months ago this was a huge blow to me mentally.\n\nIn the hospital it took 7 pricks for them to do blood work and an IV so that was fantastic , though to be fair to the nurses I have hard veins in general so being dehydrated didn't help. I got some nice bruises and huge black and blue marks that still haven't faded from that. I was given an IV with painkillers twice and then promptly kicked out the next morning with a prescription for Arcoxia and Tramadol+Paracetamol.\n\nAt home I started taking the above medications for the next few days.The Tramadol did not seem to do anything at all. Sunday I wasn't able to flip over in bed. Monday and Tuesday we're slightly better I think due to Arcoxia calming down the inflammation a bit.I still barely could walk to the bathroom about 30 feet from my room. Having to stop multiple times on the way to lean on things. I slept an average of 2 hrs a night for the rest of the week.\n\nWednesday was ever so slightly better and I could walk to the bathroom in agony but I didn't need to stop along the way. My mental health at this point had reached a all time low and I was trying to find somewhere to get a steroid injection but to no avail.Phone calls and text galore to different DR's and organizations didn't get me anywhere.\n\nThursday having given up on a steriods injection I continue calling places and people for close to eight hrs straight. I finally reached a organization that helps with Dr recommendations. I also spoke to my psychiatrist who told me to go off the Tramadol and switch to Lyrica . I don't know if that helped but it definitely didn't make it worse and is much healthier than Tramadol. I was able to go outside for a couple if minutes and make myself a coffee.\n\nFriday was the first day I could walk around without increasing pain. I managed to have coffee with my friend Moshe at out house. I was also able to make it to a Shabbat meal by our adopted family who lives next door to us about 150 feet away.I was feeling good on Friday but tried to take it slow.I managed to sleep 5 hrs though which was good.\n\nSaturday morning comes around and I must have overdone it as I was pretty miserable. My pain levels where somewhere between Wed and Thursday levels around a 8/9 when moving 7/8 when laying in bed. Saturday evening was a bit better to around Thursday pain levels. I managed to sleep around 3 hrs last night.\n\nI am writing this Sunday morning and have a MRI scheduled for tonight. I am absolutely terrified as the typical back with feet raised position used for a MRI with back pain isn't working for me and I can only lay on my side without excruciating pain .\n\nTypical position that works for most people and usually works for me but not this time\n\nI have basically one position I have been in for a week straight:on my side with pillows underneath and legs curled near me with a circle in my back .I am going nuts worrying about it. Hopefully it will go ok. Today's pain levels currently are around Thursday levels.\n\nI hope to aggressively get in front of this now having learned my lesson of trying to heal by myself. I hope I can get a MRI with things that I can work on and ideally a steriods shot or oral steriods blitz once they check and I run out of Arcaxia .\n\nChecking out for now.\n\nThis is day 20 of #100DaysToOffload",
  "title": "Life Update 4/26/26: Sciatica is killing me . Please don't read this if you're in a bad headspace.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-26T09:52:28.750Z"
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