Gluteal tendinopathy - endless pain - losing my mind

Posted by emarks @emarks, Nov 29, 2025

Has anyone else dealt with this:
I'm now up to 5 months of daily pain, the the last two weeks have been the worst. I'm totally losing my mind.
First diagnosis was L5/S1, with disc pressing on nerve. I had cortisone shots, then an epidural. Not much relief, although with time the L5/S1 pain seems to have subsided. I've been doing physical therapy for almost the entire time.
For the past two months, increasing pain in left buttock and often sharp pain in left hip area. Diagnosed with piriformis syndrome, new MRI shows gluteal tendinopathy. I got two cortisone shots for that 6 days ago.
The hip area pain just keeps getting worse. I've had to cancel many plans and limit my activities. It's very depressing and is driving me crazy. Just wondering if anyone else is dealing with this and if they have any suggestions for both physical and mental health. Thank you.

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I’m having same issue after my lumbar surgery with fusion last year March 2025. Pain started in August and gotten worse, went for MRI and was diagnosed with this. Seeing my Ortho tomorrow and I’m sure he is going to want to do injections which I will not do don’t work for me. Also have issues with Sciatica pressing on periformis muscle. He thinks I’m self disgnosing and says this really isn’t common when I know it is. I’m still doing PT but just a bandaid for the pain, don’t know what I am going to do.

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Many times I had injections that did nothing. Then I got a pain mgmt doctor at barrow. She is amazing, no pain, ultrasound guided and she knows where to hit what hurts. I will continue as I believe the body can heal without surgery just might take a couple of years.

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