Either way, it's working for me and I feel very little pain and an inexplicable urge to listen to Dubstep...

Naproxen is the anti-inflammatory I was on. It's a nuisance because you have to take it with food, four times a day - I was living on banana sandwiches just to line my stomach.

I suffered for years with sciatica, I got prescribed every pain killer under the sun, some worked but the pain always came back. The breakthrough was seeing a physiotherapist who explained what was happening and how to stop it. In my case and most others it's caused by a disc pressing on the nerve, the disc protrudes because the spine gets compressed from bending forward. He explained how to correct my posture to release the pressure on the disc. I sounds daft but you need to go for a 20 min walk 3 times a day looking like an utter tool. Head up shoulders back and hips as far forward as they will comfortably go. Two weeks of walking like mr bean and the pain disappeared. If it ever comes back a day or two of being conscious of my posture and it goes away.

Good to hear.

Does that mean you might still be doing Ride London beggers?

from Shalford to Reigate and back