That's what I was gonna say.

 

i think the term is "sciatica" - and it's numbing, not weakening...

thanks Raj!

 

Rich, it's impossible for sciatica to affect your upper body. The sciatic nerve is in the buttock/back of the thigh.

 

This gave me the Lulz!

A guy on the interweb getting medical advise from another guy whose wife just started Residency!!

Sorry - I'm sure he is trying to help but that is just hilarious.

BTW, how are you feeling now?

 

Well she did graduate Medical School and that does make her a Dr. Sight unseen, she was just saying was a worst case could be.

 

going to see a chiropractor when the time allows. i'm also trying to lose weight - i've put on enough weight in the past 10 years to match my 6-year old's total weight, so every time i walk around is like carrying my 6-year old...

i blame my wife's cooking oh but she can cook...

 

I'd avoid that chiropractor. In order for you to have numbness and tingling throughout the right side of your body you're probably looking at a bulging disc in your cervical spine.(a pinched nerve only affects sensation distal to the injury) I have personally taken care of an individual that was completely paralyzed at the age of 32 because a quackpractor (as I like to call them) manipulated his cervical spine and severed the main artery to his brain.

It would astonish most people to know how many people suffer major injuries every year at the hand of chiropractors. PBS did a documentary a couple years back on chiropractics that was quite frightening. I can't find the link right now, but I know it's out there on the web. If I find it I'll provide a link.

Let the hate mail from any chiropractors out there begin.

 

I agree, though I don't have experience to that degree.

While there may be some legitimacy to some things they do, I find the profession satisfies an an invented need. I kind of feel like it's the street drug of medicines, because nobody ever relied on a chiropractor until they visited one once.

I've never had my spine straightened, cracked, or otherwise adjusted. I do just find and simply stretch or work out my back to keep it in good shape. The only friends I know who visit a chiropractor all have back pain, and most of them originally went because a friend suggested it or they were curious - in other words, they visited before they had any sort of chronic pain.

I don't know anyone who has been fully healed by a chiropractor, just people who now require regular visits to avoid feeling worse than they ever did before they started going.

It's one of the only "legitimate" professions that I think I am actually against.

 

don't let backcracker see this post...

 

What astonishes me is the number of people I run into that think chiropractors are medical doctors.

Just for piece of mind, your upper body symptoms sound exactly like what I felt when I had a herniated disc in my cervical spine. But your lower is coming from lower on your spine.

Pain killers at first, bottles of ibuprofen, and lots of physical therapy and I'm good as new.


Edit: LOL My neck is sore. But hey, it's a small price to pay and I'm able to do whatever/whenever (Except for carry heavy weight on one side of my body). There's no operation like no operation.