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Pain in the butt - Can't sit down
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Sep 23 9:49am | Replies (336)Comment receiving replies
I have had chronic sitting pain for 10+ years, in the tailbone, sitz bone, sacroiliac joint, hip, sometimes leg, all on the left side only. I also have pudendal nerve entrapment on left side. After every treatment and test out there, it is thought to be from multilevel arthritis of the spine, the first dx my Internist gave me before any test. I can’t take any Nsaids or gabepentin due to allergic reactions. I can’t take opioids b/c they cause diarrhea/constipation and worse yet, involuntary loss of stool. I do take Lyrica and Cymbalta each of which help somewhat. I just had a spinal cord stimulator placed and am still in the phase where different settings are being tried out. My pain is generally less at the forefront of my attention and more background noise, but the stimulator is not going to be perfect, it appears. This is a very difficult condition and pain is a constant. But there are so many illnesses that are worse. I am 82 and count my lucky stars.
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So sorry for all your pain. I, too, have pain when I'm sitting.
The bone of the left side of my butt protrudes and when I was taking baths I had to shift to my right side. Weirdly the right bone doesn't protrude or hurt. The left hurts as I sit in my soft comfy chair. I've lost 50 pounds and I don't remember this pain before that but I still don't know why the bone protrudes.
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You have lived 82 years more than most. Congratulations! I also have pudendal neuralgia, all the same symptoms you have described. I’ve had 2 stimulators and they just weren’t working out for me so I had to take them out and now going in for a pain pump trial. The opioids cymbalta lyric a work to some degree but I can’t seem to regulate them anymore because I don’t want them so I take less then the pain compounds double then I take them more often so I’m sick and tired of them I want my life back my family and friends want me back I m in bed most days for hours. So today’s the day for the pain pump trial I hope it works. I’m 61 years young but feeling like I’m pushing daisy’s. Lol. I hope they dial the stimulator in for you. Good luck 👍.