I keep waking up with lower back pain that also goes down my legs.I have sciatia, but manage to keep it at bay, except when I sleep. My doctor prescribed gabapentin to help, but it s not doing much. I woke up this AM with more pain than usual across the back of my abdomen and am not eager to try to sleep again even though I move to from my back to tummy.
Hello, you have history of sciatica and back pain, and also you are taking medicine for it. I can understand how much it will be difficult for you to deal with these issues specially in the morning. Here, I would like to suggest to some basic but youthful advice which will help you to minimize your problem. First, when you woke up in the morning, don't try to get up from your bed immediately. When you woke up, start some basic exercise in bed like fold your legs towards your tummy, repeat 10 times. Next, bend your hip and knees fully and move your legs as a single unit in both side. Next, hamstring stretching in bed. Next, calf muscle stretching in bed. Next, now you can get up from your bed with side lying position and not from the front side. I think this will help in less difficult in the morning hours. But start doing stretching exercise and make it a routine habit. You may feel better. I hope this will help.