When I woke up Thursday morning, I still had the pins and needles in my foot. I could put weight on my leg and it felt relatively normal so I continued on with our special day. We did our morning birthday ukloo scavenger hunt before the older kids went to school. My husband worked from home in the morning so I drove myself to the chiropractor and went in with a bit of a limp. The Chiropractor didn’t notice anything unusual but when he finished I was able to walk without a limp. My leg felt totally normal except for the unexplained tingling that still remained.
After lunch I had a small birthday party for my son with 3 of his preschool friends. The rest of the day was normal until I picked Ari up from ball hockey at 4:30pm. When we were walking to the car I could feel my leg getting heavy. I took a break and held myself up against the wall in the Arena. One of the Dads asked if I needed help but I told him I was fine. I took a breath and tried to limp to the car. About half way through the parking lot my two oldest children propped themselves under my arms and let me use them as my support. We got to the car and I called the family doctor. Since it was my left leg I was able to drive so I dropped off the kids at home with my in-laws (who had just arrived in town to celebrate my son’s birthday) and I went to the walk-in clinic.
I parked the car in front of the clinic and went to hop out. My leg was worse than I thought and I dropped like a ton of bricks. Luckily there was a wonderful woman on the phone standing outside the clinic who saw me go down. She helped me up and assisted me into the doctor’s office. After waiting almost 40 minutes, the receptionist helped me into the room to see the doctor.
The doctor checked reflexes, colour, blood flow, and basically everything that my husband did the day before. He said that everything looked normal and he suspected that I had done something to my sciatic nerve. He said that it should return back to normal and if not I should go back in a week. He also prescribed me Cyclobenzaprine and Gabapentin which would help relax my muscles and hopefully help. After he left I called home for someone to come pick me up, then I called my sister, a physician, for a second opinion on the medication. My sister said not to fill the prescription unless I wanted to be “stoned” all weekend. I am very sensitive to medications and don’t normally take anything. She suggested just taking 2 Tylenol.
My husband made me another appointment to see his chiropractor because the doctor’s idea of waiting a week to see if my leg returned to normal just wasn’t going to work for us. I spent the rest of the evening on the couch and that night I was able to limp to bed so we figured the Tylenol helped.
I felt bad for missing my son’s birthday but he was happy to spend time with his grand parents. When I got home, my son opened his gifts and we all enjoyed his birthday cake.