Sciatica pain before diagnosis

Hi Bunnyboy

thanks  so much for the reply.

Can I ask , what they use to diagnose it? Also what’s your staging and treatment? Did your sciatic pain go down to the soles of your feet? I have a sharp stabbing pain there and my toes feel painful.

I've developed a cough I just can’t seem to get rid of now.

GP is no help at all.

sorry for all the questions but I’m desperate.

i hope your doing well anyway, it’s a horrible disease in all it’s form isn’t it.

Take care  

Hello Stephenhat, 

they used a CT scan to diagnose my cancer, the sciatica later turned out to be diabetic neuropathy 

Hi again and thanks for the quick reply,

sorry to keep asking, but was it a standard CT scan, I’ve had a ct scan abdomen and pelvis with contrast twice both clear, or was it a ct colonoscopy ?  

Hi Stephen, I experienced very painful sciatica as a result of rectal cancer. I had already been diagnosed and started treatment for it (chemo/radiotherapy). In the months between the completion of the radiotherapy and waiting for surgery I started to experience sciatica to the extent that I often needed to be pushed around in a wheel chair on trips out as it was so excruciatingly painful to walk.

I woke up after my surgery that removed the tumour virtually pain free from sciatica. It was such a relief. Basically the tumour must have put pressure on my sciatic nerves. Once it was removed the pressure went and it all returned by to normal.