What is going on?
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:00 pm
Let me preface this with saying that I have lumbar scoliosis (28 degrees) and some thoracic hernias that cause dorsalgia and chest pain sometimes.
I never had lumbar problems, but the other day I woke up with some lumbar pain close to the spine.
2 weeks later, I wake up with big lumbar pain and a weird burning feeling on my scrotum / perineum / ass and some weird feelings in my legs (seems like sciatica, its numbness on the left leg and some needles on my right on, cold sensation on feet soles...).
Also pain on both buttocks when openin my legs or pressing on them. If I press on the sciatic nerve on my legs and thighs, it hurts as if it is irritated somewhere up the chain.
Im waiting for an MRI on my lumbar/sacral spine but im actually too scared after reading some stories here.
Is it possible that S1/L5 herniation and scoliosis or some issues in the sacrum are causing this? I didnt do anything the day before (maybe sit with a bit wrong posture).
The doctor in the ER said that its 100% that it comes from l5/s1 bulging disc but I read that pudendal nerve starts at S2...he also gave me pregabaline 75mg.
Im confused because this seems like sciatica+pudendal, so it makes sense that it starts at the back? I dont have lower back pain right now, so it also confused me why this neuralgia and sciatica persists.
Im debating between it being muscular (pelvis and such causing an entrapment of both nerves) or it being spine related.
Can this resolve by itself with PT if its a muscle or temporal nerve irritation?
Any indications on the best course of action?
Im thinking firsr get the MRI, then visit 2 Neurosurgeons + 1 Neurology doctor to get opinions and do PT for pelvic relaxation -> if that doesnt get me a clear diagnosis of the issue, go see an expert urologist in pudendal entrapment in my city-> pudendal nerve block to see if I improve.
Sorry for the structural mess of this post, I am very anxious and needed to get it off my chest.
I never had lumbar problems, but the other day I woke up with some lumbar pain close to the spine.
2 weeks later, I wake up with big lumbar pain and a weird burning feeling on my scrotum / perineum / ass and some weird feelings in my legs (seems like sciatica, its numbness on the left leg and some needles on my right on, cold sensation on feet soles...).
Also pain on both buttocks when openin my legs or pressing on them. If I press on the sciatic nerve on my legs and thighs, it hurts as if it is irritated somewhere up the chain.
Im waiting for an MRI on my lumbar/sacral spine but im actually too scared after reading some stories here.
Is it possible that S1/L5 herniation and scoliosis or some issues in the sacrum are causing this? I didnt do anything the day before (maybe sit with a bit wrong posture).
The doctor in the ER said that its 100% that it comes from l5/s1 bulging disc but I read that pudendal nerve starts at S2...he also gave me pregabaline 75mg.
Im confused because this seems like sciatica+pudendal, so it makes sense that it starts at the back? I dont have lower back pain right now, so it also confused me why this neuralgia and sciatica persists.
Im debating between it being muscular (pelvis and such causing an entrapment of both nerves) or it being spine related.
Can this resolve by itself with PT if its a muscle or temporal nerve irritation?
Any indications on the best course of action?
Im thinking firsr get the MRI, then visit 2 Neurosurgeons + 1 Neurology doctor to get opinions and do PT for pelvic relaxation -> if that doesnt get me a clear diagnosis of the issue, go see an expert urologist in pudendal entrapment in my city-> pudendal nerve block to see if I improve.
Sorry for the structural mess of this post, I am very anxious and needed to get it off my chest.