Buttock Pain ?
 

Hi Everyone

This might sound like a silly question but I did not get any sense from my neuroligist so I am hoping someone could help me. :Bang-Head:


After cleaning my house on Monday and I did not do much really, just dusting and vacuuming, I started to get bad pain in my buttocks, if this another symptom of SFPN or just muscle pain. My pain already goes right up both feet and legs as well as pins and needles, I also get tingling feeling in my buttocks.



Does any one else get buttock pain and is it caused by PN. :confused:

Is it a sharp pain in your buttock?

Because you were doing some bending/standing/bending type movements, I wonder if you have sciatica?

If you can.......
* Lie on the floor close to a chair/sofa.
* Move your buttocks towards the chair, so that your buttocks are almost touching the seat.
* Bend your knees and rest your leg from the knee down, on the chair.

Your body should now be in a "Z" position.

If the pain eases, then you most probably have sciatic pain as this position removes the pressure on the spinal nerves.

Here's a link that describes sciatic nerve pain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatica


PS. There are other conditions that will cause buttock pain, but sciatica is by far the most common reason.

I am dealing with butt pain right now. The gluteus maximus muscle can be very painful for so many of us. I get pain on both butt cheeks, usually not at the same time, thankfully. I sat on an ice pack last night which did help. As Koala says, there are exercises that help keep that muscle stretched.

Day before yesterday, I started to get this cold spot behind/below my right knee, the butt muscle was already hurting. It hit me yesterday afternoon, either my neuropathy was flaring causing a nerve to make the muscle spasm, or the muscle spasm was cauing nerve pain...which ever, I want it to stop!:confused:

I did just return from vacation, driving 800 miles there, then 800 miles back and I am sure that is part of the issue. I have lost a lot of weight this year and my butt has no padding anymore, so I have been having lots of issues with pain.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Pain-in-th...rome&id=110565

With me, buttock pain is spondylitis. It is inflammation in the joint space between the hip and lower back. It can be especially difficult getting up from a sitting position.

Mere

Hi,

Others have already mentioned sciatica, but am going to mention it too. I have had episodes of it for years, along with narrowing of the lumbar disc spaces that cause sciatic nerve impingement.

Should you decide to get checked out by an orthopedist, good luck with finding out what exactly is wrong.

Cheers,

Sheltiemom

You know.. it's just killing me not to "go there"
 

Isn't PN a total pain in the Butt? But then again, so are my kids!

Come on, someone had to!

I frequently get tingling and cold spots on the sides of mine. I haven't for a while, but last winter had a few months where my left side was playing games with empty spots on that side. Felt as if I had a frozen donut in my back pocket!

However, back injuries and strains can account for much of our pains due to imbalances in our stride, tripping and catching ourselves, etc. etc.

Good luck, and let us know what the results are if you find out.

Yes, I have the pain in the butt....



Believe it or not, there is a bursitis that can affect your butt....trochanteric bursitis can horribly inflame the butt muscles. Cortisone shot in hip>>>butt pain gone.

Then I have coccyx pain....nothing helps that but time and a donut pillow. I can bearly stand to sit or stand....when this is flared up, moving is awful.

There is a 'Piriformis' Syndrome....and some one mentioned Sciatica.

This is the first time I've heard of anyone with np complain of buttock pain, so I'm excited to know this. My buttock pain is only when I sit, and its closer to the rectum area than the muscles in check area, but it can be both. You mentioned sitting for long periods is painful and I totally understand as I have to take a break every hour or two. The pressure point also includes the backs of the thighs.
Does anyone else have similar problems????

Yup, me. Also knees and front of thighs, calves, and shins. Um, I guess that pretty much describes my entire legs. It's a surface burning pain in my case.

Thanks!!!!!
 

Thank you everyone for your replies. :You-Rock:

Koala I did try the Z thing on my chair and it did ease it, it does seem to go from one side then the other.

I have been dx with Degenerative disc disease, spondylotic disc bulges, facet joint degenerative changes in my lower lumbar levels. as well as SFPN

Maybe that is the cause? could that cause sciatica?

I also get a lot of thigh pain but it is a the front and side of my thighs.



It is really a pain in the butt (pun intended) not being able to do the things I want to do, like cleaning my house and going shopping. not that I like doing housework but I do like to see it tidy, I have a good vacuumn cleaner - a dyson with a power head so that does help it is not so back breaking.

It is so good being able to talk to you all knowing we are going through smimilar things.

My doctor has said to me all that can be done for me now is to treat the pain, so I will just keep popping the pain killers.
:Bang-Head:
Thanks for your help.:circlelove::circlelove:

Everytime I mention butt pain to a friend of mine she laughs. I tell her the butt paid is no laughing matter! I always end up with a sore butt even though I don't exercise. That's ok. Try Lidoderm patches they really seem to help if you put them right on the area where the pain is. I wish us all the best! Good luck to all of us that suffer with posterior pain!:winky:

One could also be experiencing--
 

--compression of the pudendal nerve, common in cyclists and people who sit for long periods at desk jobs.

Take a look at:

http://www.pudendal.info/

http://www.pudendalhelp.com/home.html

Well I have buttock pain too but it doesn't sound like anyone else's so far. The pain is wherever the pressure is and gets worse the longer I sit. Started about 4 yrs after my feet got bad. It's sort of an aching pain, not burning, feels like it's just under the skin. It doesn't completely go away when I get up but gets better the longer I'm not sitting. Since I have to sit about 10 hrs per day (1 hr in car, 9 hrs at work), this is quite annoying. Thankfully it's usually not so bad that I can't concentrate on my work. I find it's better if I can lie down for a few minutes at lunch-time, car is really the best choice (difficult when it's 100°F outside), just hoping nobody sees me. I usually listen to a guided imagery mp3 (Dr. Martin Rossman) for relaxation.

It's hard to find normal things to do that don't involve sitting or standing, isn't it!!! Where is the cure?
Electron

I get tingling and light burning that runs up my buttocks and continues up my back, when I sit. This is fairly new for me so I have been questioning if I was imagining it. When I mentioned it to my neurologist she just looked confused by my symptoms. She just referred me to the Johns Hopkins Pain Treatment Center. I have diffused large fiber neuropathic pain. They only know that because the skin biopsy was negative for SFN. I'll post any information I get there although the first available is not until the end of Sept.

Good and grand for all of you?
 

IF I get down? I know I mite need a forklift to get up? Or more drastic measures...
I am, for now, wholly completely and absolutely grateful? That, I can get UP OTTA BED, MERELY USEING A CANE! W/o too many creaks, gronches [some of you know about these] and or sprains/strains.
Every day I get up? IS a good DAY because I HAVE gotten UP!
IF You can seek out on the web help or ask a physical therapist about the better 'ways' YOU can/should get outta bed.
Long ago posts by 'Silverlady' hinted at this issue, best to heed it and be cautious.
Hugs and hope to all! - j

There are specific exercises for butt pain and they do work..I find them very helpful. Not all are on the floor, they can be done from chairs. The muscle needs stretched.

Numbness in butt after shoulder surgery
 

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can give me some suggestions and/or help with the following.

I had surgery to remove my 1st rib June 2010. I was in hospital for 6 days, in a L position in the concrete like bed. A few days after my surgery, my left butt was going extremely numb, this got worse and worse to the point that I was standing next to my bed for most of the time and could hardly sleep. There was/is no visible pressure sore, etc.

Almost 4months later and I still have this numbness, its not as bad, but I cannot sit for any period of time without having this numbness come back. As I even type this now I'm squatting at my desk at work!! This is almost worse than the condition with my arm!

It sounds like piriformis syndrome and I've been doing the common stretches for it, but other than feeling the stretch, the issue has not gone away.

Im currently awaiting Xray results and then Im sure I'll be sent for CT once they come back normal.

Is this something that can be fixed? Its really annoying and limiting. :(

Thanks

buttock pain
 

Hi Leslie,
how are things today. I have replied to you before, being new to this site I don't know how I can get a reply directly from a member?? because of the buttock pain I can only sit for maybe a 1/2 hr. before the pain is so bad that I have to stand and upon standing it goes away. I do not have sciatic that was already ruled out. I have been dx'd w/ PN which is as bad because there's not much to be done for that. I wonder if anyone out there has tryed the Re-Builder???
lucylou

i don't have any info on the rebuilder, although I know there has been discussion of this in the past. I also become uncomfortable with any pressure to my buttocks and my posterior thighs, making prolonged sitting difficult. I have found quite a bit of relief with a tempurpedic seat cushion that I recently purchased. I'm attending a 2 day conference next week, which will involve extending periods of sitting, so my cushion will be coming with me. I thought that I might feel odd walking into the conference with my cushion in hand, so I purchased my cushion its very own Vera Bradley tote...it's all about the accessories:).

Pain in the lower back with buttock pain and pain going into the thigh and side of the leg can be inflammation of the sacroiliac joints. I have been diagnosed with (female) ankylosing spondylitis. It is an autoimmune disease usually affecting males but can also occur 1:4 in females. I have bone pain in my SI joints - not in the joint space but in the bone. It is imflammatory and also causes pain in my tendons (tenosynovitis), arthritis in my hands, neck, ribs and other joints. I also have peripheral and autonomic neuropathy and fibromyalgia. I don't know if the neurological problem is connected to the rheumatic problem. I tend to think they are related somehow...

AS in women is very hard to diagnose. It does not usually show in an x-ray and does not show in blood (seronegative) except for perhaps a sed rate... an MRI with contrast does show destroyed bone though. I do have a very good rheumy whom I have been seeing for about 8 years. It did take time to get a diagnosis.

Hope you feel better and that perhaps this may help.

Mere

P.S. I forgot to mention... if it is the SI joint involved, a rheumy will know based on palpation. There is very specific pain in a very precise location in the joint that makes you jump off the table that can be distinguished from spinal and hip pain. I thought only my left side was affected but with palpation, both sides are now known to be painful and damaged.

I get pain in my buttocks, but I think it is muscle pain as my gait when I walk is different now then when I didnt have PN in my legs, I also think the muscles are working harder to compensate for the lack of strength in my lower legs to keep me balanced and they get sore.

I mainly get it on my left side but my left leg is worse then my right.

I just traried the butt pin yesterday. Guess I never really thought about it but it does effect the muscles. I can't sit that long even in the recilner. I love the things i learn there. Thanks...

I have lost a lot of weight this year and now, my butt pain is worse. My bottom just can't get use to the missing padding. My pain is worse standing up than sitting, as a rule. The muscles ball up and get even more painful.:(

I heard my name called. :D Still battling the sitting pain girl!
Good to hear from you.
Silverlady