Quiff wrote:

[quote][I enjoyputting her knickers and bra on before I go out to work.I love the feel against my skin.[/quote]

So for once you get first choice of the clothing then mate?! :? :)

in reality, a lot of bikes are not that practical in the sense you can not stay in a certain position for long be it hunched over a fairing or sat upright for many hours. i think the sv is one of those bikes that falls somewhere in between which is also why its so popular. tas got a hard seat though. i dont know the cure for sciatica but if i did i would be very rich. i road from bilboa to benalmadina across a day and only did this with regular stops and having the weight of a rucksack against my back (not heavy) on the move.

I suffer too, having a somewhat more mature physique these days, which really doesn't help. Sciatica isn't nice. The trouble is, my back can 'go' suddenly without warning if I'm not carefull. My back will go into spasm and that's it for days.

Exercises to strengthen the pelvic muscles have worked for me. Basically, learning how to hold the middle-aged belly in. A side-effect has been going down a trouser size. I've had serveral diagnoses - a different one from each physio I saw. Mind you, they costed me £26 per half hour, not £85! The first one said it was bone growth - 'spurs' - in the spine trapping the sciatic nerves, the next one said it was disks slipping out doing it, etc.

I have suffered this to the extreme. Eventually I had to have a back operation and the offending crushed disc that was pressing on the nerve was removed. A plastic one inserted and bone fusion made.

This was after months at a chiropractor which did not help. Finally I could not stand it any more. Literally. Went to the hospital where they put me on physio for more months. Every time I went I tried to explain that the exercises they were giving me were not working. They told me that this was my only option unless it got worse.

At the time I was on my fathers prescription pain killers I was taking two every two hours for 18 hours a day. The limit is 8 a day. Then next appointment I went without taking any pain relief to show them what REAL pain I was in. Within a month I had been given an MRI scan, and had the operation.

Anyone that suffers from this pain I have the up most sympathy. It has got to be one of the worst types of pain to have. No matter what position you try to move into to relieve the pain it just WONT go away.

Sciatica is pain trawled straight from hell. I had it after my accident in 2004. Just when I thought everything was starting to heal, I woke up in the middle of the night with it, it felt like someone was ramming a red hot poker up my ****. It was simply unbearable. The only position which offered any comfort was in the foetal position, knees on the floor, so as to stretch out the spine and stop the disc from pressing on the nerve, but even then it simply dulled it rather than removed it. I guzzled tramadol every night in the hope of sleeping through it but I had to stop because I found I couldn't do without them, they were so addictive. In the end it went with acupuncture.

Like Ape - my profoundest sympathy to anyone who has the misfortune to get this horrid affliction.

Thanks for all the replies. Probably it is the sciatic nerve, though
it hasn't yet been diagnosed at such. The annoying thing is that the
problem is in the left leg which makes changing gears uncomfortable.

Reading people's experiences is sobering. I just hope that my
problem develops slowly (as it has been for the last 25 years) so I
die of other causes before I have to resort to morphine, as
timwilky. At the moment co-dydramol does the trick.

In my case the back problem isn't helped by the fact that I play a
lot of tennis. Anyway, if we don't do the things that we enjoy, what
is the point of living?

PS. I must brush up on my knowledge of anatomy. At the moment I
don't understand half the words people use in this thread.

My problem is that my dog attacks me when I adopt this position:
he thinks I am fooling around.

I know what you mean... Suddenly it just "goes" and your knackered....

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I will get kim to read all of this..shemay want to move in with you all as you all will be sympathetic !!!!!......

I do try and understand ..but I suppose until it happens to me Iwill never know- and the pain I see I dont ever want to experience it..

Quiff what a 21st century kind of guy you are! Maybe if you had not insisted on all that parking up and jumping in the back of the mini...this problem would not have arisen! :wink: :lol:

This thread is like walking in to an episode of Casualty! :)