Low Back Pain Going into Hip and Leg

Unfortunately steroid injections make you more susceptible to bone destruction and the more you have the worse it gets. Good luck

I really get that!
For example, I used to get up at 6 am to mix cookie dough for Christmas baking, bake and decorate all day, and be cleaning up the kitchen at 8 or 9 pm. There would be 100 dozen cookies ready to share and to eat.
Now it takes 3 days, working a few hours at a time, to produce far fewer cookies.
Sue

I was diagnosed around 8 years ago. I have tried every thing. Hooked up with pain mangement and have gone thru so so many different medications, shots, massage therapy. There are days that are almost pain free...butt the ones where i can take the meds prescribed to me, that nothing helps. I cry and laugh, that doesn't work either. I think that if you can find the right combination of medicines that will probably help for a while. What did your doctor say would eventually hhappen to us who have this disease?

I feel your pain so to speak. It's there and it interferes with my ability to move by body the way I once did. Some movements are just too painful and others, if I do. I'm going to regret it later. In a big way. There is no liking anything about pain, its horrible and agonizing and in my opinion, ok this is my opinion. So, I digress before getting worked up. I like to consider myself open minded to change, however, for years I lived a very physical lifestyle. So, changing my physical behavior is hardest of all for me. Accepting this is the way I am now and making it work is challenging to say the least. I may always have some emotional difficulty not being the athlete I once was. I am slowly learning to do it and trying to find ways to do things differently. I will do the best I can, Hope it's good enough, and try not to be too hard on myself.

I feel your pain so to speak. It's there and it interferes with my ability to move by body the way I once did. Some movements are just too painful and others, if I do. I'm going to regret it later. In a big way. There is no liking anything about pain, its horrible and agonizing and in my opinion, ok this is my opinion. So, I digress before getting worked up. I like to consider myself open minded to change, however, for years I lived a very physical lifestyle. So, changing my physical behavior is hardest of all for me. Accepting this is the way I am now and making it work is challenging to say the least. I may always have some emotional difficulty not being the athlete I once was. I am slowly learning to do it and trying to find ways to do things differently. I will do the best I can, Hope it's good enough, and try not to be too hard on myself.

I don't know what I have. Other than pain that is. My Physician is sending me for an evaluation to see what I am "Capable of doing". Had to put that in quotes as there are so many things to do in life. I feel more like it's just how I am going to be able to do them not if I can actually do them. Ok there are some things I don't do as much or as fast or exactly how someone without pain. Or exactly how I used to do them. Still, they have to get done.

Thats Good News and Bad News. I did not know. My physician did not tell me this. The physician has done many steroid injections over the past year. Quick count about 7 in the SI joint. The injections then are less than two evils. Or are they? This is really something to think about. Thank You for posting this.