“…Typically, patients present with pain in the hip and the buttock radiating in the leg and foot that has its onset few days before menstruation and becomes progressively more severe, subsiding 2 or3 days to 2 weeks after cessation of menstruation; hence, the term cyclical or catamenial sciatica. As time goes on, the duration of sciatic discomfort may increase until it is constantly present with excruciating exacerbation during menses [14,25,26,28,35,39,44,45,49,50,55,58,63,69,73,75,77,113,124,133,140,143,144,146,147,154,156,158,160,164,167]. Diagnosis is usually late.…”