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SI Joint Dysfunction

Spine Health | Last Active: Aug 4, 2024 | Replies (27)

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@loriesco

If you want help, you need to tell us like the other poster said what your symptoms are. SIJ dysfunctions are complicated varied and problematic after 30 years of SIJ dysfunctions and five minutes from another surgery. I ended up going for myofascial deep release for my neck and had the guy work on my SI joints, and that pretty much interrupted me going for a useless surgery! Many of us have osteoarthritis have tight sacroiliac joint conflicts have all kinds of problems with improper Lee working SI joints but if you want us to help you with some remedies, you need to explain what you’re experiencing . Good luck.

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Thanks for the reply. Part of the reason I was asking about others symptoms was just to see if some of the crazy stuff I have going on had also been experienced by anyone else.

Brief history, I am fused at L5-S1 from 8 years ago. For several years now I have been doing pretty well until November 2023. Through a series of dumb moves on my part I injured myself. Symptoms were low back pain, burning and weakness in the legs. The weakness was fairly severe. I also was having significant pain around my tailbone and surrounding area. I was diagnosed with lumbar stenosis at l4-l5. Tried PT and an injection, both of which seemed to make my symptoms worse. The weakness and the pain around my tailbone/sacrum had become debilitating. So I agreed to have a laminectomy. I was always skeptical that this was going to help my tailbone/sacrum pain, but the surgeon felt this was referred pain from my low back and would resolve once the compressed nerves recovered. Unfortunately it was almost 8 weeks before they could get me in for surgery. The symptoms just kept getting worse over those 8 weeks.
Surgery was deemed a success and for 5-7 days post surgery all symptoms were gone. But day by day all of them except the weakness came back. I am almost 5 months post surgery and I am still struggling. They did do a follow up lumbar MRI and an MRI of my sacrum. Lumbar MRI showed inflammation at the surgical level, but no other issues. The sacral MRI did show some degenerative changes in my SI joints. So it was suggested I address that with injections and PT. I got some moderate temporary relief, but nothing lasting. I am currently seeing a chiropractor just to see if that helps, but nothing magical so far.

Here are my current symptoms:

Back pain just above the waistline.
Burning and aching pain all around my tailbone and deep into my pelvis that when really flared up will radiate into my groin.
Weird spasms in my low back and buttocks.

Sciatic type pain in my right hamstring area.

Burning and numbness in both feet and ankles. Those symptoms come and go but when really aggravated my ankles feel like they are on fire and it feels like I am walking on stumps due to the numbness in my feet.

The pain around my tailbone/sacrum gets much worse when standing or sitting for any length of time.

I could go on, but those are the main things.

Can all of this really be attributed to my SI Joints?

Has anyone else experienced similar symptoms?