“I had to ask people on the bus to help me get up.”

What is this?

When you are pregnant, many changes happen in your body. This affects not only your abdomen, but also the organs around it, including the nerves. The longest nerve in the body is the sciatica. This extends from your spinal cord to your foot. With gestational sciatica there is significant pressure on the roots of the sciatic nerve. Hormones make your joints more flexible, which means your nerves are more vulnerable to pressure and your risk of this pregnancy condition increases. This may lead to the following complaints.

• Back pain
• Muscle cramps
• Burning feeling and weakness in your legs
• Muscle weakness
• Tingling in your legs, feet, or toes
• Pain that suddenly spreads from top to bottom

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“The pain extends from my back to my legs.”

During her first pregnancy, Ellis began experiencing severe back pain at 23 weeks. During her second pregnancy, this was already after 17 weeks. “The pain would extend from my back to my legs. Sometimes, I would have to ask the people on the bus to help me get up,” says Ellis. She also points out that while she was sleeping, the pain could suddenly spread to her back, causing her problems. In sleep.In Ellis's case, gestational sciatica was due in part to a retrograde (tilted uterus).

What can be done about it?

These complaints completely disappear after pregnancy, but the pain remains annoying. There are many things you can do to relieve pain, such as exercising to gain more strength and flexibility in your back muscles. If there is already a lot of pain, ultrasound therapy, laser therapy, or electrical stimulation may be used.

source: Health Square

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