@yram

Did you review all imaging reports in detail and researched to understand medical terms? Did you have lumbar and hip/pelvis MRIs?

Did you have an accident, fall, injury before the pain started? Your pain sounds like it is from a compressed nerve or torn/weak tendon/muscle. How long have you had your pain?

Have you tried physical therapy to strengthen and stretch surrounding muscles? Have you tried using Salonpas lidocaine pain patches or rollons on your lower back/sacrum to see if it helps calm the nerves feeding your gluteal muscles? Have you tried ice and heat? Have you tried Voltaren gel to reduce inflammation in the area surrounding the pain point?

You may want to try massage or acupuncture to see if you can get any relief. Have you tried soaking in a warm epsom salt bath to relax the muscles?

@yram
Where did they do your cortisone shots?

I am going to try the Signal Relief pain patch to see if they help any to reduce pain signals. They aren’t cheap but I am willing to try them to see if they can help me do more things (so hard to get anything done when you are in pain all the time…I am a single, disabled parent of a teen son and his sole provider plus have a home/dogs/cats and no family…my faith does give me strength and daily hope so I cling into that).

@yram
You're so right about "no quality of life." Your situation sounds so similar to mine, the list of things. Hang in there. I'm trying to keep positive too. Very, very hard to do. But we have to keep trying.