Sciatica update: After months of PT, the pain in my hip that traveled to my foot was unbearable. I got an MRI, etc. and the long story short is that I have two misaligned vertebrae in my lumbar region. Ever optimistic, I am striving to avoid surgery so I had shots into the vertebrae yesterday. The pain is significantly reduced (I would say on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is "just fine" and a 10 is "call an ambulance," I've gone from a solid 8 to a 4 today. Am hoping for a bit better by tomorrow.
It is so weird to me how this progressed from just fine to this point almost overnight. What did people do before modern medicine? I was so completely limited in what I was able to do for weeks.