Sudden buttock and lower leg burning numb toe after two or three hours of sleep..

Reliefbound,

Welcome to our forum.

So sorry that you need us though.

I an not a doctor but dizziness upon standing is low LBP. Im surprised you didnt pass out.

Sounds like it is nerve related pain and certain pain reliever pills are excellant for that condition. i dont know their names.

Soon other members will respond.

Nice to meet you
Soft Hugs
Betsey

Welcome to the forum reliefbound.

I have had lots of incidences of leg pain, calf pain one or both legs, tingling, pins and needles in both feet, sometimes pain or numbness only on one side ... It always turns out to be from my spine, with the exception of when only one hip hurts, and that's usually been bursitis. Bursitis can be treated with a simple injection of cortisone into the bursal sac. My leg and feet usually feel better after a spinal injection (several types of those).

No use worrying. Read as much as you can on real medical websites - just to understand the anatomy and types of treatments. For me, exercises and physical therapy haven't done much, but others have had good results. I take that back, in part: I learned that pushing my spine out, away from my back, flattening the curve in the lower spine helps sometimes. Lying on the floor and pushing the spine towards it, or pushing it towards the seat when driving can relieve the pain temporarily. At least a little. I do believe that building core muscle strength helps, even if it doesn't stop pain for me. I don't exercise as much as I should.

When you get the results of the MRI you will be prepared to understand them if you read beforehand. Just don't get hyper believing stuff with no proven studies.

As for blood flow, there's not much in the parts of the spinal discs. Staying active is often recommended, but as we age these things shrink, get torn, herniate, etc. I used to have horrible pain from protruding L2/L3 disc, but it stopped when the disc shrank away and is now bone on bone. It took a couple of years. I've got a new one now lower down. I'm hoping injections will make it feel better as it did the higher one - so I can avoid surgery and just wait for the disc to shrink on its own like the other one did.

One thing this disc pain does is to trigger muscle spasms in my back. I get relief from a TENS unit if I put it one soon enough, like before starting to drive for an hour's trip.

Best wishes.

Hi David, since this does sound like nerve pain and the Neurotin helped somewhat, I would check with my dr before starting any exercising. You sure do not want to do something that will aggravate this. The dr can give you specific exercises to do to avoid this. Also, if the Neurotin is helping with the pain you may talk to the dr about a small increase in it. We see many on here that they slowly increase the Neurotin to get the best effect.

Keep us posted. Take care.

Hi David, depending on what you mean by damage disc degradation would depend on what type of specialist you could consult with. If your GP feels you are not a surgical candidate then most like;y he will refer you to an orthopedic dr. There are a lot of different ways to treat someone with conservative care. Has your GP said whether he will treat this or did he say off to a specialist? If you don't get any relief in the pain you could always ask to be referred to a PM dr. Before going the PM route I would see if the dr orders some physical therapy and if that fails to help then look at a PM dr.

Keep us posted on how you are getting along. Take care.