Thread: Folfox or Xeloda. Folfox or Xeloda My oncologist has recommended Folfox-4, twice a month for 6 months. I know someone with the same diagnosis as me who is taking Xeloda, which according to her has fewer side effects and is easier to tolerate.
Sciatica refers to pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Typically, sciatica affects only one side of your body. Sciatica most commonly occurs when a herniated disk, bone spur on the spine or narrowing of the spine (spinal stenosis) compresses part of the nerve. This causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg.
1 They come out of the spinal column low in the back and then go behind the hip joint, down the buttock, and down the back of the leg to the foot. 2  Sciatica is different from other forms of low back pain because while the pain most often begins in the back, it usually travels down one lower extremity.