@barbbielor I tried an epidural 3 months after my surgery with no luck. I’m on low doses of cymbalta, hydrocodone, and gabapentin, having narcolepsy I can’t stay awake taking anything stronger I’m already struggling to stay awake on the lowest doses. I can’t lay in bed because of the tailbone and hip pain. I use a gel cushion in my recliner I’m able to get by with it. I don’t go anywhere without the cushion to set on and don’t go in a store unless there’s a scooter ( that has four rounds wheels) I occasionally use pain patches! I’ve been going thru pelvic therapy my muscles are so tight I can’t relax (and they always have been even when I took muscle relaxers) . I also go to the therapy pool 2x a week and walk ( which I had to stop for a couple weeks the pressure of the water hurt, I have to put a pool noodle under my arms to walk because I was having the burning and stabbing pains in the water and about fell several times) . I know a lot of people deal with the nerve pains at one time mine was so bad setting in church I had to start setting in the foyer on concrete because when they play the bass it was triggering the nerves on the wood floor. My daily exercise I try walking the yard with a cane and grabbers picking up sticks so my son won’t mow over them. I was told not to use a back brace but do from time to time when it’s really bad

Recliners are horrid for my hip pain/sciatica (Piriformis syndrome). My bed is a traditional spring bed with a 3", 3lb density topper. I have found the PT therapy that I took for almost a year gave me some great tools to keep that piriformis muscle loose and hamstring work has made a difference. I used to get a shot for bursitis regularly, but find the stretches, ice/heat and topical lidocaine, CBD ointment work fine. Some like Voltaren cream. Put it on the main sore place, perhaps with a moist microwaveable heat pad.