Call-center work stacks long call blocks, after-call documentation, and busy queues into one chair. When sciatica symptoms show up there, the usual advice is either "push through" or "take more time off." Neither one is a plan you can run inside adherence rules.

A more useful first step is to stop assuming what the ache means and start mapping when it appears.

Keep a one-line log for a week. For each entry, write:

• when symptoms began

• whether discomfort traveled from the lower back into the leg

• the work condition (live call, documentation, break, queue, task change)

• the position you were actually using

• whether you changed anything at the next transition

That record is for you, your clinician, and your workplace process. It is not a diagnosis.

Tie any position change to a transition that already exists: after a call disconnects, before documentation, at a scheduled break. Do not drop a live contact to move. Use only positions already approved for you.

If warning signs your clinician named appear, or workplace policy requires a report, follow that path. Hiding the pattern does not protect a target.

This is workplace support, not medical care.