What happens if sciatica is severe?

Sciatica symptoms are more severe, causing severe pain within a few weeks, and these pains will continue to worsen, eventually causing muscle atrophy, resulting in obstruction of the patient's ability to exercise, and eventually affecting the patient's normal life.

If your physical fitness declines, you will be very prone to diseases. As a relatively common disease in the elderly, sciatica can cause severe pain when it occurs, and this pain is radioactive, which makes it impossible for patients to take care of life and work, so patients should actively accept ** and let the condition be controlled as soon as possible.

1. Sciatica is generally more common in middle-aged and elderly people, unilateral is more common, the onset of the disease is more acute, first of all, the patient will have pain in the lower back, and within a few weeks of the onset, the patient will have transient pain in the lower limbs when walking or exercising, with the aggravation of the condition, the patient will have severe pain, the pain will extend to the buttocks and the back of the thigh, the calf will also have a continuous impact, and the pain will be more obvious at night.

2. Sciatica as a complication of other diseases, such as lumbar disc herniation, lumbar tuberculosis, the pain is generally radiated from the buttocks, thighs and the outside of the calf, with the development of the disease, the patient will be burning, or the same pain as a knife, the pain will be aggravated when coughing or exertion, if the condition is mild, the patient will be relieved by exercising and lying in bed, but if the condition is more serious, the patient is restless.

3. Although the incidence of sciatica is relatively high, there are not so many serious conditions around us, if the condition is detected as soon as possible, the impact of sciatica on our body is not too great, no matter what the disease, early detection of the early **then the probability of her getting up is relatively large.

In severe cases, the lower limbs will be paralyzed, which is caused by the vertebrae compressing the nerves, causing the nerves to be unable to receive signals.

If it is sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation, it is necessary to rest in time and be conservative for lumbar disc herniationHowever, if it is caused by inflammation, it is necessary to carry out anti-inflammatory in time**.

Sciatica will bring the following harms to patients: 1. Affect mental health: When sciatica develops to a certain extent, patients will have symptoms of claudication, and many young patients will have increased psychological pressure because they can't stand the ridicule of people around them, and they will have inferiority complex, and even some patients will have suicidal thoughts.

2. Heavy family burden: on the other hand, patients can not work normally, which reduces the original patient-centered family economy, and the expenses required in sciatica often become a burden for many families, so many families are overwhelmed and often fall apart, and there are many divorces due to sciatica every year. 3. Harm to the body.

In the early stage, patients often feel pinprick pain, and as the disease progresses, sciatica patients have increasingly severe pain, often unable to sleep at night, sometimes accompanied by knee pain, and then develop to claudication, turning, hip abduction, and internal rotation are not able to proceed smoothly. In the later stage, if it causes collapse, it will also lead to disability, and regret for life.

Sciatica can cause a herniated disc in the lower back and can have serious consequences of paralysis and requires prompt medical attention**.

Pay attention to keeping warm, not only the legs, but also the waist.