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Pain in the butt - Can't sit down
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Sep 23 9:49am | Replies (336)Comment receiving replies
That's great. I would really like to know what kind of gentle exercises you did to get down to a 2-3 (from what previously?). If I could get to that level, I would think that I had died and gone to heaven. I can sit, but it takes every ounce of self control to do it. Riding in a car for more than an hour is almost impossible. I've had butt pain for eight years, but it just ramped up to new heights in the last 4 or 5 months. My pain doc who manges my pain pump is of no help (he's an anesthesiologist by training). I would gladly do any set of exercises if they could bring me a little relief.
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I got my hip MRI results yesterday. I have cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease and doctors attributed my hip/butt pain to my lumbar spine. Well, the MRI shows I have bilateral gluteal tendinopathy and bilateral high grade hamstring partial tears! This explains a lot as a source of my pain that worsened last year through present. I have no idea how or when I injured both my hamstrings. Tendinopathy and hamstring muscle tears makes sitting, standing, walking, kneeling, using stairs, squatting, lifting, etc. so very difficult and I may have been injuring my hamstrings over and over again because I did not know the source of the pain and needed to get things done (a single parent of a teenager and no family). I need to talk to the orthopedic doctor/surgeon to find out if surgery is recommended since this seems chronic, is not healing on its own and very painful. This is really reducing my quality of life and I am dealing with other health/pain issues on top of this. I thought you might want to know what I learned from my hip MRI.