Could my sciatica be due to a bad fall?

Yep.

Sure could do. Odd though that it only occurs after you have been laying down for the evening. Do you lay on your side perhaps?

@rojo I’ve tried lying on the right (“good”) side, and also on the left. I’ve even tried sleeping on my back. (My wife wakes me up to stop snoring when I’m on my back!) I haven’t been able to make any correlation between my sleeping position and the intensity of the pain when I get up.

You may have herniated a disc, the common cause for sciatic pain, but no one can help except your doctor and x-rays.

All lower back pain is often cagey and unpredictable and often very unpleasant.

Let us know what the doctor says.

(I have a mild sciolsis and a chronic ache; what helps me are daily stretches, heat, sometimes an elastic support. I also sleep on my side with a firm pillow between my knees. When I roll over, I have to remember to take it with me. Often in the morning I find it on the floor.)

Yes, it could be a herniated disc. I had that when I was 18, right when I entered college. Granted, I was young and it fully healed by the time I was a junior.

Here are some tips:

When you wake up, don’t do that awkward sliding off the bed while getting up thing – that forces you to twist your lumbar region (lower spine). Instead, sit up first AND THEN turn to get off the bed.

Strengthen your abs and your lower back by lifting weights. Again, I was young when this happened but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. When you lift something up with two hands, you tend to use your lower back muscles – instead, focus on your abs whenever you lift something up.

You’re going to have to do some physical therapy, probably. You’ll do some simple exercise and stretches daily. Although surprisingly yours doesn’t seem as bad as mine was. I never really knew what caused it, and the first several days I was absolutely deprived of being able to walk. It hurt so bad, no ibuprofen could help. I had to borrow someone’s crutches.

I assume that a fall can cause it. When my sciatica is acting up I can’t sleep on my sides. The only thing that helps is sleeping straight on my back with a semi flat pillow going from the small of my back to the top of my head. That keeps helps take pressure off my hips and I am able to sleep without pain.

Better to get help sooner than later… regardless of whether it was caused by the skating fall or not.

I had a bad fall from a shoulder stand when cheerleading in high school and didn’t get help. I still have sciatica pain every once in a while. Wish I had gotten help back then!