A couple years ago I found out that I was no longer 19-years-old and invincible. As the saying goes, “My mind was writing checks that my body couldn’t cash!”
Yep, age was creeping up on me slowly, and knocked me on my back in the form of piercing back and leg pain. It was sciatica.

Wikipedia defines sciatica this way:
Sciatica is a set of symptoms including pain that may be caused by general compression and/or irritation of one of five nerve roots that give rise to the sciatic nerve, or by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve itself. The pain is felt in the lower back, buttock, and/or various parts of the leg and foot. In addition to pain, which is sometimes severe, there may be numbness, muscular weakness, and difficulty in moving or controlling the leg. Typically, the symptoms are only felt on one side of the body.
Sometimes it is spelled differently, as sciattica.

I was only 33 years old but about 25 pounds overweight. I’m a short guy, only 5’ 8” tall, and the sciatica hit me hard! My right glute hurt so bad that I could harldy stand it. I actually had to drive to work using my left foot because pushing on the brake and gas with my right foot shot pain down my leg and up into my hip and lower back!

When I got to work each day, I had to sit on a stack of pillows. I have a desk job and sitting on an inflamed sciatic nerve is a real killer!

For me, the pain was on the right side and was caused by a combination of stress, fatigue and irritation from being overweight.

The Physical Symptoms of Sciatic Nerve Pain

I remember when I first noticed the sciatica pain. It was on a Saturday morning. I awoke with an annoying ache that felt like it was below the muscle in the right side of my backend. At first I just ignored it.
As the day went on and I got to working around the house, the pain was not there anymore. But when I got to bed that night, it rushed back into the same spot, but with more intensity. I thought maybe I had pulled my muscle, so I took a couple aspirin and went to bed. The next day I was fine, but on Monday, I awoke with the pain again. I took a couple more aspirin and was fine all day.

This went on for several days until the pain medicine was no longer working for me. I had no choice but to go see the doctor. I just couldn’t take it anymore.

I Did Find the sciatic nerve pain Cure

When I realized I was dealing with more than just a strained muscle, I went to the doctor and he diagnosed me with sciatica brought on by strain, stress and being overweight and out of shape! He gave me a heavy dose of anti-inflammatory medications (steroids) that did take the pain away temporarily. But when I was done with the prescription, the sciatica pain came right back.
He also gave me some poorly copied cartoon-drawings of stretching exercises that did actually work, albeit, once again, temporarily.

Today I am completely pain free thanks to an ebook and videos I found online. They showed me everything I needed to know in order to decrease and eliminate my lower back pain and sciatic nerve pain.
You can read about my sciatica treatment here.