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Isabel, in her late 70s, had to undergo surgery under full anaesthesia for a small kidney tumour. The operation was successful, the incision healed well and recovery proceeded normally. However, Isabel developed a severe case of sciatica in the weeks following the operation. She believed that it was due to her back being sprained while under anaesthesia.

She had a severe prickling pain on the left side of the sacrum, running down the back of the thigh and on the outside of the left calf. Sometimes it felt like a pressure, but every so often it would shoot like lightning into the foot and then be followed by an intense and continuous pain.

Isabel was given various pain medicines and had to have regular injections to cope with the pain. After a number of weeks without visible  improvement, the doctor was considering another operation to fuse some of the vertebrae in her back.

In Isabel’s case, the pain was always worse from being upright: it started as soon as any weight was put on the left leg and she couldn’t stand or walk for long. While it got worse when lying on her stomach, she felt much better when lying on her back with the left knee bent and left to drop sideways.
Putting something warm on her lower back reduced the pain and sitting became bearable if she sat with a cushion under her left buttock only.

A daily dose of a homeopathic medicine was prescribed on the very specific symptoms described by Isabel. Over the period of a few days, the pain started to reduce and it fully disappeared within three weeks. At her next appointment to receive an injection, the doctor agreed that it was not required. After another few weeks, Isabel discontinued all pain medication and has not had a recurrence of the sciatica for several years.

VERA EXTERNEST, professional homeopath, TAS 

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