What are effective treatments for sciatic nerve pain?

Ok: First get evaluated to ensure you have the correct diagnosis. There are lots of things thought to be sciatica, that really are not. Without the correct diagnosis, treatments will have a lower chance of being effective. Regarding treatments, your physician will guide you through treatment. It will include nsaids, pt, home exercises, and possibly neuro-diagnostic or neuro-therapeutic injections.

Spine Pain Options: This sciatica pain as you suggested is the result of an irritated nerve or facet joints or other injury typically in the lumbar spine (low back) which are caused by herniated disks, spinal stenosis or degenerative disc disease, etc requiring further evaluation by a pain/spine specialist and may be candidate for facet injections/radiofrequency ablation and epidural steroid injections.