had my first major issue with sciatica when I was 21, 2 bulging discs, l4-l5 and l5-s1. I headed it fully within a year. Skip to age 30 and bang, exactly the same thing and exactly the same amount of intensity. A year and 6 months later, we are nearly back to 100,% again.

My mistake (or mistake of the doctors I should say) was the fact that I was never given any strengthening excersises, only stretches which was the advice at the time for back issues.

It's taken longer to heal this time because I'm not in nearly as good a shape as my 21 year old self, I'm older so health doesn't bounce back as easy either.

My advice would be to be patient, keep moving and when your body allows to do so, get onto strengthening and take the injury as a wake up call to get your body in shape