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As title. I have a slipped disc which I take meds for, I also get sciatica on both sides, but mainly the left. I have extensor tendonitis on top of my left foot which makes me non weight bearing for a few seconds every now and then and the inside of this foot is falling inwards when I walk. The numbness is in my right foot on the outside from the base of the little toe to about 2 cms from the ankle bone. I am concerned because my sciatica has got worse over the last few weeks but I have taken up spin classes and wonder if this is possibly why. I don’t get it when I spin but I get it afterwards in bed lying on my left side and sometimes quite badly in the morning when I wake up.
The disc is a large prolapse, I’ve had the facet joints injected many years ago when I first did it following a fall from my horse on the road. I am worried that there might be a deterioration in my neuro symptoms as I have had a couple of weird slips when I have actually fallen over and been totally bewildered to find myself on the floor. I did approach my doctor about this when I went to see her about another matter but I was told to come back and discuss it rather than add it to the end of my appointment.
I don’t know whether to attend the out of hours hospital clinic one evening or whether I’m being a drama queen and it isn’t that serious after all. Its not just pins and needles, I can actually stick a pin in my foot and barely feel it which is a bit worrying. Maybe the chiro would be able to xray my back as they have done that before. Or should I go back to the doctor?
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When your GP said ‘make another appt to discuss that’, that is what she wanted you to do. She obviously thought that a cursory glance at the end of another discussion wouldn’t be enough, so you need to do just that!
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Yes sorry I meant a hospital walk in centre but couldn’t find the words for it yesterday! I’ve been to one before when my knee swelled up following a trip. They thought it was septic arthritis, following an xray that diagnosis was ruled out. I went on a Thursday evening when all the soaps were on TV as I thought it would be quiet and got seen within 10 minutes and was out within 45 mins. If I ring my doctor I normally have to wait about 10 days.
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This current issue appears to be more suited to a GP visit, so get yourself booked in at the practice. She wasn’t dismissing you as a timewaster, but she needed time to do a proper examination and decide what to do next, whether to refer you on and who to etc.
I also have some foot and leg numbness issues following 4 slipped discs 10 years ago, so I have a lot of sympathy with what you’re doing through.
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Thank you. I don’t want to be accused of being a timewaster. I’ve tried googling numbness in my foot but can’t really find anything useful other than possibly being MS or Peripheral Arterial Disease both of which I really don’t think for one minute it is! Crikey.
I think I might go to the walk in centre one night this week. I keep going over on my right ankle to, it doesn’t hurt because I manage to ‘catch it’ in time but I do worry about spraining it. When I fell over in the car park I went a right sprawl and apart from hurting my pride, fortunately didn’t hurt anything else but I thought then how weird it was as I didn’t appear to trip on anything or over anything. Then it happened again a few weeks later, but that was last year. You know what its like, you always make excuses for weird things that happen, and I just thought I was being clumsy. Maybe I was, I hope so.
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I rang up the doctors surgery this morning – told the first available appoint would be 12th December! That’s any doctor, anytime, no preferences. When I sounded a bit worried she asked me what was wrong and I said that my foot had gone numb and I was concerned because I have a prolapsed disc. She said she would get the doctor to ring me sometime today. About 20 mins later she rang me with an appointment – luckily my boss let me go! Just come back from the appointment and the doctor said its due to my sciatica. Reviewed my medication, suggested I go to pilates and cut down on my spin class (I go five days a week) although the numbness and sciatica happened before I started spinning. She said see how I get on and then review in the spring and maybe chat about having the disc operation that I declined a few years ago.
So relieved I thought it was something serious, especially as the doctor booked me in so quickly after I rang up.
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You need to get the disc sorted sooner rather than later. If the disc is impinging on the sciatic nerve then its going to cause damage that can take a long time, if ever, to repair. When I slipped a disc, I got raging sciatica: at it’s worst, I lost the feeling down the right leg and was unable to walk.
I was very fortunate to be able to go private for the treatment – they had me in hospital and under the knife within a week of the seeing the MRI results.
The nerve took a long time to heal, in fact, 12 years on, I still have no feeling in the middle toe of my right foot.
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I have had numb legs after a disc issue, so much so that at one point whenever I dismounted, I would collapse. It would not be painful at that time, just no feeling or power to my legs. Once I had sat there for a while feeling would come back.
The GP was not terribly helpful, just gave painkillers and said to rest.
What turned the corner was intensive physio with a physio who was experienced in reducing impingements from slipped discs. They reckoned they could avoid surgery in over 50% of cases. It worked for me. I did 2 weeks residential, happily with a scheme I was with.
I would look for a sporting focused physio rather than a general one.
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