Working out with nerve pain

I am going to begin a workout, and I have a little bit of nerve pain - so I thought it was appropriate for me to write on the subject.

For me, nerve pain really brings me down, and I don't really want to do much of anything. However, if any of you do get in this state... something that I have found which provides relief is to lay on the floor, with your calves resting on a chair. Sort of the idea where your legs are hoisted up by pillows, but more pronounced. I don't know why - but this seems to relax things throughout my back and hips, and the nerve pain lessens.

Back to working out. Funny enough, the less I work out, the more nerve pain I have. But when I have nerve pain I don't want to work out! So it is a huge mind over matter thing for me - just like working out when you don't want to... but a little more extreme.

And all of the specialists I have talked to prescribe some form of movement to alleviate nerve pain. So although the pain makes you not want to move at all - don't do that! I find biking really helps, so does swimming... walking only helps me when I glide walk (as discussed in previous posts).

And recall, my nerve pain is slight scatica and mostly femoral nerve pain.

Hope that helps!