Hi everyone,
I haven't posted in quite awhile because I can't sit very much but I do want to share my experience in hopes that it may be able to help someone else. Six months ago I got severe pain in the sacroiliac (SI) after being stuck in traffic for over an hour. I had two previous occasions of flare-ups in the SI and received trigger point injections which calmed it down. This time my PM wouldn't give me one but gave me a RX for fentanyl and wanted to do a nerve ablation. Maybe I'm in denial but I thought this was a rather drastic jump and went in search of another doctor. Finally (after several months of waiting and a couple of ortho docs who were no help), I got into see a PM at UCI who immediately gave me a trigger point (much relief) and scheduled me for SI injections. The first time they injected cortisone & marcane into the joint. It gave me relief in the joint but that evening I had terrible muscle spasms in the surrounding area. The second time in addition to the injection in the joint they did several trigger points in the surrounding areas. They hit several spasms which even made the needle vibrate. More relief from this one. I have another scheduled for next week. In the meantime I am going to PT to try and stablize the joint. Still getting bad spasms which could be pulling the joint back out. My PT also thinks I have some tendonitis going on there. Bottom line, It hurts very much to sit & I think if I had been able to get injections sooner it would not have gotten as bad. Unfortunately, I am now, at times, experencing that dreaded "burning" pain in the butt.
I have some other observations that I would like to post & some posts that I would like to answer later when I can sit/stand longer.
Take care,
Linmariie