Sciatic pain, pain in legs, butt and hips

[tex]

Lilia,

It sounds as though your thyroid is working OK. If you do any thyroid tests in the future, it's always good to know the Free T3 and Free T4.

I assume that TRAS refers to thyrotropin receptor antibodies, sometimes called TRAbs. In this country we just refer to them as anti-thyroid antibodies, and there are at least a couple of different tests available to detect them. Since you have other autoimmune issues, yes, it would be a good idea to check for thyroid antibodies. If you are producing antibodies against your thyroid, the inflammation in the thyroid will surely become worse, as time passes.

Normally though, if your results for the usual thyroid tests (for TSH, Free T3 and Free T4) are in the normal range, then you probably are not producing a significant amount of thyroid antibodies.

Tex

[harvest_table]

Hopeful,

Your Rheumy and your GI doc are either comedians or they are simply ignorant. Collagenous Colitis is a connective tissue disorder. What do they think the "collagenous" part of the name refers to?

Tex

My experience two years out before a CC DX also included severe hip, leg, joint and random extreme pain in my lower extremities. Had I seen a doctor for these issues, which I did not they would probably had Dx me with fybromyalgia.

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8816

Eating fresh non prosessed foods is good for me. Most likely, you too. Try it.

Love,

Joanna

[Lilja]

Thank you Tex. I have a long list for the appointment with my GP in April :-)

I have lived on bone broth, cooked meat and cooked fish for 23 months. Never eat processed food. The only raw thing I eat is a banana each morning.

Lilia

[tex]

Hi Joanna,

It's great to see a post from you. How in the world are you doing? Do you still miss Alaska, or is Minnesota cold enough?

Thanks for posting.

Love,
Tex

[harvest_table]

Tex,

Doing well, family is growing and good. Yes, we miss Alaska (we still have a house there) but rural Mn is home for now. Our parents are here.

The forum here has grown so much..MC is such a connective thread to so many health issues and this group is is talking about it.

Thank you.

Love,

Joanna

[mcnomore]

Just for the record, I also have a sciatica issue that began just after my colonoscopy where they discovered my mc. It has improved to the point where I can sit as long as I want most of the time. My mc is also very much improved.

[Lilja]

Hi all,

I just thought I would give you an update as to my sciatic pains, the leg pains etc.

I've received the radiologist's comments to my MRI last week.

Apparently, I have two disc prolapses, one broadbased prolaps in the L1/L2 disc and a degenerated L4/L5 disc with a broadbased protrution, recess and canal stenosis of both the L4 and L5 root. My right hip has a labrum rupture. The rupture must have happened when my ex boyfriend kicked my back and butt.

But, I don't know until Wednesday when I have an appointment with my GP what he will suggest. I only know that I cannot walk for more than 5 minutes where I will have to sit down, due to the awful pain. I will even accept surgery, if it comes to that.

My biggest fear however, is if I have to take any kind of medication or anesthetic that can upset my CC.

Fingers crossed

Lilia

[CarolAnn]

I have Sciatic for years and Osteoarthritis in hip. So it keeps me behind some what to exercise.

Two years ago I decided to use the wrong foot to get up on the dock.

I fell and and landed part way on the sand hard shore

and the water edge.

From then on. I feel my Sciatic gives me much pain.

So I do feel for you ladies and gents.

I am in my 70's. And I thought the golden years be so great.

Not if you have all these problems . Yet not to dwell on them . I have tell myself one day at a time.

[Lilja]

I have Sciatic for years and Osteoarthritis in hip. So it keeps me behind some what to exercise.

Two years ago I decided to use the wrong foot to get up on the dock.

I fell and and landed part way on the sand hard shore

and the water edge.

From then on. I feel my Sciatic gives me much pain.

So I do feel for you ladies and gents.

I am in my 70's. And I thought the golden years be so great.

Not if you have all these problems . Yet not to dwell on them . I have tell myself one day at a time.

CarolAnn,

After I put in my post, I felt like I had to do all to get rid of my sciatic pain. Some of the injuries were due to an assault, but I thought that at my age (68) I had to try everything, except surgery.

So, I went back to my acupuncturist whom I had given up October last year. She put needles both in my lower spine, in my bottocks, in my hip and in my right leg.

After the treatment, I walked to my car and the pains went away, but once in my car I had crucial pains in my rigth foot. This all went away as soon as I got home, and did not come back until three days after the treatment.

I've decided to continue acupuncture. Surgery at my age is not an option, and with my other foot having a meniscus-rupture in the hip, it would be hard at my age, if not impossible, to recover.

I saw an article last month, saying that people who were treated with hip fractures had a mortality risk rate of 25% within the next 6 months after surgery. Not due to the fracture per se, but because of - apart from hospital infections (!) - the inability to move, and hence the risk of a heart attack.

Lilia

[mjbonsais]

I realize I am not a regular but do have issues because of MC. I, too, have had sciatica and no mri was done. I had pain in my left hip off and on for four months (that was not my first bout either). February of 2015 the pain went across my front low pelvic area to the right side; thought a uti was coming on. I was able to find a urologist who wasn't overly booked and he took a specimen and did an ultrasound which was fine. My low back ached also. I told him about my sciatica and he said muscles are being affected all the way around. It finally subsided.

Lilja, my youngest sister had hip surgery nearly 1 1/2 years ago and her surgeon recently saw her because her bones were so delicate (she had five breaks one included her knee). This gets better. My sister had bariatric surgery many years ago when it was still retlatively new. They just told her to stay away from certain foods - nuts one of them. From what she has told me she was not told about vitamin defiiencies from that surgery which would include B-12, vitamin D and K-. She also has a severe potassium deficiency. No wonder her bones are brittle! Before she saw the surgeon who did her hip replacement, she saw her pcp who sent her to the hospital for tests and said her white blood cells were in the 7,000 range. She said they should be 4,000? Anyhow, she had four mri's and they could not pinpoint the problem and they started her on chemo pills saying cancer! I was so devastated having lost my oldest sister to cancer of the lung in August. STRESS it's called.

My MC is acting up again but as fore-mentioned in previous post it could be from my substituting calcium pills with cheese and other milk products. Stupid me. Yes, that's a term I don't like but bad choices. I just need your support and help. Thanks for any perusing of my ramblings here.