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Pain and burning in glutes and lower back

Spine Health | Last Active: Mar 28 9:34am | Replies (20)

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@hatman

I’ve had pain in my lower back for a while now. Thought it was SI joint. After seeing a pain management doctor, an MRI was performed. It shows a little arthritis and he believes that it may be pinching a nerve to my lower back. Had pain medication injection by the nerve root and the pain went away for 5 days. It was great to have my pain completely gone. My insurance wants me to do the same thing one more time just to make sure that the nerve pain goes away. The next step is to have an ablation of the nerve. Doctors say that should last 6 months or more. It depends on fast the nerve regenerates. It was great to have no pain

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I have the same pain, two years now. Epidurals did not work, nor is ablation working. The pain started with a diagnosis of PMR. Prednisone took care of it, but I had to taper off due to high blood pressure. I’m fine while sitting with my legs raised, but I can’t stay like that all day! I’m not sure it will ever go away.

@hatman it feels great being pain free after almost 2 years in pain from a failed back surgery L4-S1 I had a spine stimulator put in January 17 and was 95% pain free for 4 days until I bent to far and moved the leads, now I’m struggling to get by until next Monday the 31st to get paddles placed instead