just sharing my EXP here. I researched this topic extensively.
I been having sciatic pain, at various degrees (low-mid) for the last 10months or so. went through all standard treatments (non-invasive, no epidural injections) like PT, chiro etc. with no results and stopped all of them together.
then I did stumble upon John Sarno books (must read). not going into details here, but by using his techniques my pain improved by 75% at least. I’ve been very active (gym/bike) and seeing good gains. but some remaining pain still was nagging me.
I have couple theories on the pain and here is where I am with it now
a) the very vast majority of back pain/sciatic pain issues have emotional roots (John Sarno)
b) the pain has a real physical cause, which is blood-flow depravation to various body tissues (but this is not the root cause)
c) all mainstream ‘treatments’ are a complete waste of time, with very few exceptions
d) here is how I believe BPC-157 comes in
once you deal with the emotional issues, a healing process will begin by which the body starts restoring blood flow to the tissues, reducing tension etc.
BPC-157 works by speeding up healing damage tissues and promoting the formation of new blood vessels.
I started BPC157 about 2 weeks ago. at roughly 250mcg injections once daily subq (not systemical)
about a week into taking the injections my pain levels went down another 75%. I am at a point now, where it went from a slight burning into a very weak nerve sensation in my leg which is either completely gone, or a very very weak.
from where I began 10 months ago this is 90%+ improvement.
I do absolutely no other treatments, I do not do anything at the gym designed for ‘back pain’, but of course I work out my back and core like a normal person would do.
I don’t take any pills, curcumin etc. (other then my regular supplements). nor will i ever again to a ‘spine specialist’, chiro or any other ‘professional’.
What you need is an MRI and a consult with an orthopaedic suregon… not peptides…
Frequently, sciatica can be treated conservatively (physio, cortisone shot etc). If these modalities don’t help and a bulging/herniated disc or bone spur is the cause for your sciatica you’d be looking at surgery if you want the pain to go away.
Sciatica… if it’s really sciatica… is caused by compression of the sciatic nerve
To treat this you need to fix the variable that is causing compression of your sciatic nerve.
I’m telling you this as someone who has trained through tears (tendon and cartilage), dislocations and more… I’ve tried everythiny from physio to cortisone to peptides to osteopathy etc to try remedy serious issues
In the end, if something is causing marked discomfort and disability coupled with serious pathology present on imaging… you need to pursue standard treatment modalities that have been shown to work (hence the term standard treatment modalities).
Surgery was the only thing that could fix my shoulder, and by the time I actually came around to accepting that arthroscopic surgery could no longer fix what is routinely keyhole surgery… had open surgery
I’m stoked that I wound up getting the surgery though. I’m only say 80% recovered, but shoulder feels better than it has in many years (first dislocation at around 14 years of age), many after that of which I’d tell myself “that’s not a dislocation because I got the shoulder back into socket”.
This is how I wound up with a neat little hill sachs fracture alongside tears encompassing both my RC and the cartilage surrounding my shoulder joint.
If you have sciatica… go and see a doctor before you wind up with a slipped disk or something…
sorry yes…don’t want to get into this arguments here to deep. I had an MRI.
there is nothing pushing on my nerve (but a small ‘degeneration’. ) doc offered steroid injections. waste of time.
most surgeries fail long term (because they don’t address root cause) and or make it worse.
I would highly suggest to everyone having this issue to research the issue based on my previous comment and absolutely AVOID any surgeons for the vast majority of cases with very very few exceptions (tumors, serious accidents etc)