Lower back pain?

I (most of us) feel your (or part of your) pain. I would stick to your chiropractor. Most good ones know what they're doing. Some not so good regular doctors are too quick in not examining all possibilities. I had severe sciatic pain on my left side a few years ago, starting in the glute and radiating down the front thingh to the back calf. No position was comfortable. (That also caused lower back pain because my body was trying, unconsciously to bend itself into less uncomfortable/painful positions). X-rays revealed two damaged discs. Chiro adjustments eased the situation somewhat but the chiro persisted in her search and discovered that, apart from the vertebral sciatic pain, I was one out ten people whose sciatic nerve runs through (the middle of) my piriformis muscle and sometimes that muscle moves or gets inflamed in such a way as to press the sciatic nerve causing what is known as pseudo-sciatica. Again gluteal massage (but even more targeted) helped. I've been pain-free (in this particular regard; other pains in the a@@ region are different stories) since then. Apart from all the other advice you'll get (on the forum and from your doctor///s///) make sure that when driving you're not sitting on part of your handbag/purse or some such. I had been keeping my wallet in my hip pocket. Boy, did I learn fast to keep it elsewhere. Good luck.

I (most of us) feel your (or part of your) pain. I would stick to your chiropractor. Most good ones know what they're doing. Some not so good regular doctors are too quick in not examining all possibilities. I had severe sciatic pain on my left side a few years ago, starting in the glute and radiating down the front thingh to the back calf. No position was comfortable. (That also caused lower back pain because my body was trying, unconsciously to bend itself into less uncomfortable/painful positions). X-rays revealed two damaged discs. Chiro adjustments eased the situation somewhat but the chiro persisted in her search and discovered that, apart from the vertebral sciatic pain, I was one out ten people whose sciatic nerve runs through (the middle of) my piriformis muscle and sometimes that muscle moves or gets inflamed in such a way as to press the sciatic nerve causing what is known as pseudo-sciatica. Again gluteal massage (but even more targeted) helped. I've been pain-free (in this particular regard; other pains in the a@@ region are different stories) since then. Apart from all the other advice you'll get (on the forum and from your doctor///s///) make sure that when driving you're not sitting on part of your handbag/purse or some such. I had been keeping my wallet in my hip pocket. Boy, did I learn fast to keep it elsewhere. Good luck.