Hello everyone. I just signed up and am having difficulty navigating my way through this support group.
I am having problems with peripheral neuropathy in my feet. I am on lyrica for about a month for electrical spasms from my right buttock down my leg to my foot. The medication has helped with that. But recently my feet have gotten worse with the tightness. There is no numbness and no pain. Just the tight feeling. I have complained to my doctor for about 5 years that something has been happening. I have sciatic pain when I sit too long. I had a bad fall onto my back about 6 years ago. I am currently waiting for an MRI. I am 62 years old, female and retired in 2015.
I am looking for support. I need to know what this is and what I can do about it. I have always been extremely active. Do I have a future to look forward to in a wheelchair or amputation? I am not diabetic. I am quite scared about all this. Please let me know if anyone has similar symptoms. Thank you.

Welcome,
Has there been any Xrays or other imaging, or advanced PT evaluation, or possibly a chiropractor evaluation?

tightness
sciatic pain (it can shoot electrical spasms from buttock down leg )
bad fall onto my back
These make me think some soft tissue & alignment/body work might be something to look into..

Meds won't fix the issue.. They might be needed at times, if it is not easily fixable...
Body work, PT /DC may be a better option for a possible fix..

https://www.neurotalk.org/members/10...cture5102.html

You can explore You tube videos on sciatic pain, bodywork and such.

Hi Ontario Canada

Welcome to NeuroTalk .

As well as the good ideas from Jo*Mar the peripheral neuropathy forum is worth checking out.

You can also use the Search option here (https://www.neurotalk.org/search.php) to find topics and threads which could help you.

Best wishes.

Welcome Ontario Canada

Hope you find an answer.

Kitt

Welcome, Ontario Canada!

I've had several sciatica attacks over the years, and if they were bad enough, I had physical therapy for them, and that helped a lot.

Other times I just tried to rest whenever the pain was kicking up.

I understand that sciatica is often due to degenerative disc disease. As we get older, the discs degenerate and cause problems for us.

I've known some people who've had surgery for degenerative disc disease but nowadays more conservative treatment is preferred. I think we're supposed to wait it out, use common sense, rest when the pain is bad, etc.

Thank you very much for your responses. Tomorrow I have an appt with a podiatrist in hopes he can help with this until I can have MRI.
I have been to a chiro and have had physio in the past. I think the physio did help me as things seem to be accelerating since I have not been going.
I look forward to any further suggestions and I pray this is sciatica that can be fixed with physio or exercises or whatever I need to do.
So nice to have found a support group.

Welcome and don't even think about a wheel chair future. There is so much info on this forum and at almost 82 I continue to manage a almost 40 yr of sciatic nerve damage from hysterectomy back in my 40's..sitting right now it's burning....

But I have stretches and do them a lot during my "retired" days....

I take ibuprofen/extra strength tylenol 1 each every 6 hrs to keep moving. With food in stomach and looking at taking a new supplement soon for even more stomach protection.

I also deal with neuropathy from hip replacement, which I often call a disaster, but again I'm forever stretching and using a lot of supplements....there is a lot of info on this neuropathy issue in the PN forum here.....

Toprician homepathic lotion is my favorite for pain issues and again I've posed a lot about this wonderful product. Again welcome...and a lot of good info here.

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

Thank you to everyone who has responded. I finally had an MRI on Friday and now wait for results. Lower back including L4 and L5.
Since Friday I have had incredible pulsating electrical spasms going down to my right foot from my right butt cheek. I have been taking the lyrica prescribed. Although I never Have any pain, this is the most frustrating uncontrollable feeling. I want to burst into tears. The heel of my feet feel like blobs on my foot. I still have feeling in both my feet but the tightness is incredible. Please please help with some suggestions of trying to stop this. I don’t know what the problem is but I am praying the MRI will show something and that there will be something available to fix it. I can’t imagine going through the rest of my life with this.

Ontario: The Lyrica MAY NOT be a good friend of yours. Check out the laundry list of side effects and that drug. Look at all the wonderful supplements so many of us use and many have gone the drug route and got off that path....I never went that route.