Heya Tee,

yeah, piriformis can press on the sciatic nerve too. But since you feel it while lifting something heavy, I guess it has to be a disc bulge, right? Did you get a scan to have it confirmed?

Yes, it can be seen on the scan. Ah and I have the thing where part of the spine is not connected. (Spindolysis)

Do you also feel it while snowboarding/skateboarding? You mentioned that you sometimes fall and experience pain, and then you start fearing a little… is it your sciatic pain that you feel when you fall?

Not really, when I have a lot of impact I usually feel it more the day after. Also there’s a part of me is expecting that this happens.  I try to let go of that belief that there is right an wrong movement. I wanna follow what feels light and bright.

I am glad you are now better, not experiencing so much pain. You said it was caused by a lot of physical activity. Was it caused by heavy lifting by any chance? Sometimes people get a disc bulge while weight lifting, or even by working their leg muscles in the gym.

I was Skating a 3.5m high half pipe the day before and there was no ladder then you run up a lot.
Doing the sideway sports I noticed made my righ hip tilted forward and my left is rather stiff. I move alot the other way these days and try to strengthen my other side.
Neal Hallinan (Youtube) has some interesting aspects too and has inspired me about different types of exercises and that unsymetrticallity of the body which is given anyway with the heart and the lungs and having a strong hand, foot and eye.

Have you done some exercises for pain relief after it happened? Or it just went away on its own?

I wonder what I’ve done for shure a lot and only a few things constant. I did the intrusion where they inject cortisol close to the spine. I went surfing in Norway maybe it was the change of environment or the intrusion cause it went better then. Cycling was the best for pain relief. I couldn’t stand more than 10 min and in the beginning I needed to cycle in the middle of the night to get some relief. I brought a bike to Norway I would feel insecure without it. Hanging is good and I did it occasionally also many people told me this. Stretching calves and hip flexors. And to feel my abs and back muscles conscious. I tried to force posture by time and then let go of it again. Ah and dry needling might have helped too.

Maybe there is a way to make progress with it, maybe to exercise more, push myself more. But I am a bit apprehensive to push myself too much, because it starts hurting. So far I am happy that I can maintain this relatively low level of pain, even if it limits me quite a bit.

I’m afraid to push or even too allow myself to keep going like this. I think it’s important what environment I put myself in. I think I couldn’t do some jobs where I stand all day without walking also sitting all day does not feel right.

This monk told me to never push when I was moving a cart and that I should use the weight of my body (I was already out of breath then 🙂 ). When I had the injury I pushed myself with my mind I noticed that I just could keep going if I kept pushing I thought that’s how to progress. It’s the opposite of play. It’s kinda that I moved my body with my mind. In my body this creates tension.

My body somehow knows what can be done I just need to listen and let it happen.

Do you expirience the pain on a specific side? And rather in the legs or in the back itself?