Pain In the Butt - Literally!

Does no body have any possible answers?

Honestly a lumbar x-ray will probably prove to be useless. You should ask for an mri if you can get one. It will give more answers and if there are soft tissue injuries it will be more apt to show them then an x-ray. It really sounds as though you have a lumbar disc that is bulging or has ruptured and is laying on a nerve causing this pain. I am not a doctor but I do believe in todays modern medicine and so I always recommend that you go to a spine specialist and allow them to follow a good course of action that has been proven to help many others for life. Please do not allow a chiropractor or any other "quack" look at you or touch you. This is the only advice I can offer. I am haveing disc replacement surgery on december 17th in clearwater fl. My doctor is scott webb d.O. And he is with florida spine instute.

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dr. Gruber is my physiatrist/pain management doc and he is the best! Caring and a super hard worker in the field. You have to be stern and make sure you are refered to the right people. Back docs are who you need to see.

It sounds like you have moved your pelvic bone there is rehabilitaion for this with certain excercies

Hi,
there is a high chance that tight piriformis muscle in your buttock causes your buttock pain. It's very common if you sit a lot and especially when you are a woman. Thus it is important to stretch your pirifromis muscle. Before that you must improve the circulation and innervation of this muscle by relaxing. When I was working whole day, I successfully used acupressure massage of huantiao point (gb 30) in my buttocks to get effective relief for my buttock pain. I have now out together a book demonstrating these techniques. If you are interested, check it at http://www.Homebackpaina cupressure.Com/
kind regards,
virpi

My money is on a possible herniated or bulging l5 s1 disk... Since the buttock pain is usually the first symptom. An xray will not show anything... And mri would be more likely.

Since it's just starting there are a couple of things you can do. Ice. Ice is your best friend. Gel pack on your lower back and also your buttock.

For ten years I used to have my husband massage my sciatic nerve especially in the buttock area where the pain is. The sciatic nerve is as big as a man's thumb..Huge nerve and it goes right through the muscle right there in that spot that hurts. Massage can help loosen up the muscle around the nerve.

You probably have a compromised disk in your lumbar... Treat your back as such until you can get a diagnosis. Some activities can make it worse. I've had a microdiscectomy in 2000 reruptures in 2004 & 2005-06 and so far this year i've had three epidural spinal injections. All symptoms begin with a pain in the butt... So i'm betting you've got an l5s1 problem.

Take care of yourself! =}

As you already have been told an injury to your lumbar spine is probably the culprit here, due to the onset of buttock pain and now lumbar pain. The standard x-ray is pretty much useless in diagnosing anything in the back, except broken bones and such. A mri is much more reliable in diagnosing soft tissue damage, ie ruptured disc, good luck to you and keep us posted.

Hello. I came here because I didn't know where else to turn. I was recently told that I need to have back surgery due to my burning pain in my buttocks, that I have had on/off about 6 years now. For the past 2 years it has been almost a constant annoying pain and months ago started going down the back of my leg. I have done physical therapy, I had a shoe lift (from a tilted pelvis) had a breast reduction in 2002, been to see many chiropractors, had steroid epidural injections, facet injections, cortizone injections & worn a brace. I have been told that I have degenerative joint disease, arthropathy & arthritis.

A couple of months ago I had an MRI done and went and saw a orthopedic surgeon in SA TX and he said I had a cyst on each side of the L5 S1 region, one was bigger than the other, but not the side that hurts more. Also that there was a bone spur on the side that hurts that is pinching the nerve (assuming siatica nerve) He reccommended that I have the MITR-microdisectomy surgery done along with removal of the cysts. He said the cyst were caused from repetitious movement, and that they could come back. I had the surgery scheduled and chickened out last minute, thinking I needed a second opinion. The injection really help for the first month or so and then when the pain comes back, it's back with a vengence!

What I couldn't understand is that when the surgeon was looking at my MRI, he looked at me & said "You know looking at this & looking at you, these do not look like they belong to you." Basically telling me that my joints look "old." I am 30. I have several different reason why I hurt so much, but I guess I was looking for an exact reason for my pain. I am an active mother of 3, love to go to the gym and workout and just stay busy. I will not live the rest of my life laid up in bed or limited to what I can do for the rest of my life. I am too youg in my opinion to be going through any of this. If anyone can help me at all I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks.