My name is Lois Carmichaek, I’m 72 years old, a retired librarian, and I live in Fort Worth, Texas.

It all started with a strange tingling in my lower back.

Then it turned into a line of fire running down my right leg.

Soon after, the numbness came.

I couldn’t stay sitting for long, or standing for long.

When I lay down, it felt like a knife twisting from my back down to my heel.

I stopped going to the park with my husband.

I started avoiding family gatherings with stairs.

My world was shrinking, one day at a time.

For years, doctors repeated the same line: “It’s just sciatica. It’s normal at your age.”

Prescriptions for painkillers, anti–inflammatories, muscle relaxants, referrals to physical therapy…

But no one explained why the pain always came back.

Or why it seemed to get worse, even when I did everything “right.”

Deep down, I knew this wasn’t just getting older.

There was something wrong with my body.

I tried everything: creams, patches, stretches, hot packs, cold packs, YouTube exercises, massages…

Some days it seemed to get a little better.

The next day, my back and leg felt like they were on fire again.

Until one sleepless night, scrolling on my phone, a documentary title stopped me cold:

“The real cause of sciatica pain is not in the nerve.”

I clicked.

In the video, researchers from universities like Harvard and Stanford explained something no doctor had ever told me:

The root of the pain wasn’t just in the nerve, but in the buildup of an inflammatory protein that attacks the nerves and the muscles around them.

They showed how this protein sticks to the nerve fibers, corrodes their protection and spreads inflammation, as if it were building a cage of pain around the sciatic nerve.

For the first time, everything made sense.

It wasn’t “in my head.” It wasn’t “just age.”

There was a specific villain behind my pain.

Then they revealed a simple at-home protocol, developed from these studies, capable of protecting the sciatic nerve from this protein, reducing inflammation and helping restore mobility in just a few weeks.

No surgery. No injections. No lifetime of pills.