Ahhh...girlfriend
Sounds just like us ALL, at least me.
Di is right to work up to as per Togut and Edgelow.
We are all type A++ and want results now.
Dr. Collins says that when I raise my arms there is NO blood circulation from my umbillcal cord down and it's not sciatic but symptoms of due to lack of blood flow.

Dr. Agnew and my doc of PT has me walking, trreadmill and starting aquatic.
I swell and I hurt and throb more so when I try cardio.
However, the PT doc is there to take the swelling down after I do the cardio.
I've been told it's the nervous system screaming, on fire cause it's not used to the pumping of the blood flow and constrictions. And then there is the gravity pulling us down, down down.
We have to retrain our brain and nervous system of the stress and pressure it has been under all these years.
All of oour muscle have to be retrain too
I call it: as if the TWIN TOWERS have crashed down
Pool therapy: No gravity pull there and good for our sciatica and everything.
PT Doc is putting me on an aquatic program per Dr. Agnew for the summer and future.

Contemplating going to Issels treatment center in Santa Barbara when things calm down here.
Another TOSer is having great results with probiotic cocktails and hyperbaraic.
XXOO