Health Organization for Pudendal Education

WOO HOO! 1st laptop ever for my technologically deprived self. What does this mean to me? Right now I am typing in bed; 1st time since I got those useless piriformis injections a month ago, that I can be on a computer without some nasty painful sciatica. Everyone with PN should have one of these!

Congrat, Hermajesty!!!!
Anything to make you more comfortable is a GOOD thing!
Happy typing and surfing!
Warm regards,
Karyn

Agreed. My laptop is my only link to the outside world and I'm so glad it has allowed me to hear all on this site have to say. I know I would not be in such a happy place both physically and mentally without my laptop and the people it connects me to.

Kathy

Welcome HerMajesty to the Laptop gang. Its so much easier to type lying down rather than trying to sit and cause more pain.
I use a table in front of my couch which swivels around so I can type and lie down.

Yay for you! I find it so much easier to multi task. I can watch TV, be on my laptop, & eat a bowl of ice cream all from the comfort of my couch with my feet up on the hassock. Don't know what I'd do without it. Congrats!

yes, laptops rock! And the mini netbooks are awesome. I have one that's only 3 pounds so it doesn't push down on my pelvis while I type (for some reason that bugs me) It's an EEE PC and it was about 300 bucks. It has word and internet and is awesome.

Ahh, that's interesting pianogal! I'm getting an EEE too as my desktop pc's crashed, glad to know you love yours! I'm having to craftily filch my son's laptop to keep connected till the EEE arrives. Got to have a pc of some kind, it's a lifeline in times of trouble (and when are we not troubled!).

HerMaj, though I never had full-blown sciatica, for a couple of years I had pinching of the sciatic nerve because of a piriformis muscle with trigger points in it. Sometimes those injections can irritate the very muscle its trying to help. You could always try trigger point massage to see if it helps you, feel free to PM if you want.

Take care,
Birdlife.


Diagnosed PNE at ischial spine.
1st double nerve block, National Hospital, London - relief for 1hr.
2nd double nerve block, National Hospital, London - no relief.
Currently self-treating with triggerpoint massage - big improvement all round.

Dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Thanks for the offer Birdlife!
Actually the laptop was what I needed; I stopped exacerbating the sciatica for awhile and now it is gone and I can sit normally again. I had been advised it was teporary anyhow from the piriformis injections I got; but meanwhile it was driving me up a wall and I couldn't get my work done.
My piriformis is too much of a mess to respond to manual trigger point work, TP injections of B-12, and apparently steroids as well...working on getting botox approved by the insurance now.
Thanks again!