Hello rainy: There was another Thread, posted a while back, on this very subject... but certainly no harm in posting it again! Unfortunately, I don't recall if the previous post was in the Chronic Pain Support forum or somewhere else. I also don't recall what, if any, kind of helpful suggestions it generated. (So... really... when you come right down to it... I'm not of much help here at all...)

I have a ruptured disc in my low back that impinges on the sciatic nerve. So, of course I have the sciatica as well as some low back pain. I'm fortunate however that it is not so severe that it prevents me from doing chores around our unit. (We live in a townhome.) I do have to be careful though. I've had some bad episodes in the past where just getting up to go to the bathroom was excruciating. That hasn't happened in several years now. And I want to make certain it doesn't happen again!

I'm afraid I don't really have much in the way of useful suggestions for you. We (my spouse & I) try to avoid doing everything at once. So I might do a bit of dusting here-&-there one day & vacuuming another. Doing a little bit each day prevents having to do a lot periodically. I'm afraid that's about the extent of my wisdom on the subject. Perhaps some other members will come along with some better suggestions...