Very long, hurried walks and uncomfortable foot wear is a bad combination and sometimes people are hit with this realization the hard and painful way.
This is the case of a woman, who about three years ago, was diagnosed with sciatica, which can simply be explained as the inflammation of the sciatic nerve. She said she suffered excruciating pain every time she move and that she could not even take a step without feeling pain on her right leg.
The pain, she narrated, extended from her mid calf up to the middle of her buttocks, at the back of the waist. She could not bend because every time she did pain would shoot up her right leg. Sitting requires a whole lot of effort for her part and it was difficult to get comfortable sleeping position. Sudden jerking movements such as sneezing and coughing were also invitations for pain.
“I am woman in the 30s, yet I felt that that I was 60 years old because of the body pains that I was feeling,” was how she described her predicament. At first she thought of applying ointments, drinking pain relievers or putting on pain relieving patches but the pain remained.
When she could no longer endure the pain after three days, she decided to see the doctor and was diagnosed with sciatica. She was told that the illness was a debilitating disease and that she should rest for three days.
