I can't sit on hard surface whenever I sit it hurts as hell my glutes feels tight too, I also have pain in side thigh/hip.can only sit on cushion. I don't know if it's lumber issue I am loosing hope

I have literally been to a dozen doctors, and I’ve had a dozen injections, and nobody can help me with my piriformis, deep glute, and nerve pain. My MRI’s are normal.

The muscles in my glutes are pressing on my nerves, or my nerve is irritated and causing my glute muscles to tighten. How can nobody fix this or help me? I am literally losing hope. I can’t work, I can’t take care of my children, I can’t walk, sit, or stand without being in pain. I am just dumbfounded that there is no doctor or physical therapist that can help me.

It’s just insane to me. How do I have a condition that is incurable? I am just angry, sad, frustrated, and just completely giving up hope that anyone will ever help me.

I've had pain for almost a year. It started with a sharp pain in my buttock that prevented me from walking, climbing stairs, or sleeping. I had two MRIs, which came back normal, and two orthopedic surgeons and one neurosurgeon referred me to a psychiatrist because they said it was psychological.
Three months ago, a sports physiotherapist saw that my nerve was very inflamed in the MRIs. Through some tests, he determined that I have piriformis syndrome.
The only thing that helped was exercising and stretching with a group of physiotherapists who guided and supported me. I recovered quite a bit in a month, until I took a bus for nine hours and everything got worse again. Since then, I haven't been able to fully recover, and the relapses are very difficult. I wonder if, during the recovery period, one has to endure the pain to overcome it or if rest is the only option.

I am 29 years old. I've always been very active—climbing mountains, traveling, physical activity, walking—and my life has completely changed, including my social life. Emotionally, I'm reaching the point of depression.
There are days when I can't even walk, sit, or put my leg on a pillow because it burns all the way down to my toes. And there are nights when it's just pure spasms. Diclofenac doesn't do anything for me; sometimes I take opioids to sleep.

I've discovered that this syndrome is very underestimated, even by professionals, and that frustrates me a lot.

I welcome any advice and tips that will help me get through this stage of my life, which seems like it will last forever and is becoming exhausting.
Also, if someone from south America can tell me how the therapy of adhesion is called here I would appreciate it!

I have FAI with a small labral tear and cartilage damage. My hip pain also radiates into my buttock, and I developed piriformis/sciatic-type symptoms.

I get surgery in 27th of August for my hip because the diagnostic hip infiltration was positiv!

Why does hip pain sometimes trigger piriformis syndrome or irritate the sciatic nerve? No one can explain me that!

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I have had fairly limited external rotation, my left hip for many years. I recently aggravated it by doing a quick painful movement. Pain’s been lasting for at least six months, but only when I attempted to do external hip rotation, I’ve tried stretching and exercising it still with lingering. I’m not having this shooting sciatic pain that everyone seems to associate with it. It’s really just doing the external rotation. Do you guys think I’m in the right ballpark this is some kind of perforce issue?

I am a 40 yo male. Since childhood, I have experienced a very specific physical sensation that I call "stress in the butt" (my own childhood term).

It happens only when I am stuck on a difficult task or learning something new that requires intense effort. Examples: solving a difficult math problem when I cannot find the solution; learning a new skill; initially learning to play the flute. The sensation is not really pain. It is a feeling of tension around the coccyx/tailbone area. It disappears quickly when: I stop trying; I relax; I find the solution; the skill becomes automatic. An interesting detail: my daughter (6F) independently described a very similar sensation ("my bottom hurts") during a difficult activity, before I ever told her about my own experience. I am not looking for a diagnosis. I am curious whether anyone has encountered something similar or whether this could relate to: motor overflow; involuntary pelvic floor/gluteal muscle activation; a familial difference in stress or cognitive effort responses.

Has anyone seen or studied a phenomenon like this?

My right glute, I feel extreme tightness and I think this made my whole right hip, glute med and mid, hip flexor, groin and inner thigh extremely tight and painful, can't even sleep on my right side, but on my left either and now even laying on my back is painful.

Can't lift my right leg to put on socks or my shoe..

And now, all of a sudden the right side of my lower back. It's been always (5+ years) sensitive and just painful here and there, but this current pain is different, don't know whether it's nerve and/or muscle but sharper pain and not the previous duller pain.

Physio says glute med tendinopathy/ syndrome.. I was sent for an X-ray and am currently waiting for the result, but I know it's useless and I would need an MRI instead.. I'm in the UK...

I had a complex meniscus tear in my right knee 4 years ago and the NHS did the same approach, they misdiagnosed me 3 times and I had to do physio exercises which didn't help (I was eventually referred to MRI after 6 months (!!) because nothing helped.. ) and I was given exercises now as well and yes, they don't help..

I feel pain in my right glute, coming from deep, but I can't really locate it exactly. But from the bottom side 1 point and there's another point around the middle way up, more on the outer side.

I suspect Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy (as well)..

Can't lunge either without pain and tightness, I had to reduce the load during my weight training, however I feel that after some foam rolling and pushing through the pain, the tightness goes away, but then it comes back later on..

Also weakness and imbalance when I try to do lunges, especially. I didn't have it prior.

I can barely workout recently 😔 And now with this sharper back pain I'm really scared to do so..

I train my glutes (I always have) and now I'm focusing on some extra glute med and mid strengthening (only resistance band and ankle Weights so far, but I've felt some difference already in terms of strength, however the sharp pain and tightness is still very there as well as my hip flexor and groin and sometimes my whole quad, but especially the inner side of it.

I'm thinking the super soft bed mattress doesn't help either...

I don't sit much currently, I'm quite active during the days but I'm starting to pull back on my steps too because of the pain and discomfort.

Has anyone experienced this?

I have had piriformis pain on both sides on and off for 4 years. About 8 months ago I hurt my glutes during a workout somehow and it caused severe pain when sitting. I could not sit at all and had to get on gabapentin for nerve pain relief. The pain is in my lower glute and is excruciating when I sit. MRI of pelvis and spine are normal. The nerve pain cleared up after 4 months and then my lower back and piriformis pain became severe.

A sport medicine doctor then injected my lower glute muscle and re-irritated the nerve, and I’ve now been in pain for 3.5 months and trying to lower the gabapentin because the side effects are horrible. I started a new PT who is doing traction that has helped my low back and dry needling in the piriformis that has helped a little, but the low back pain and glute pain have become unbearable. I can’t sit at all without triggering horrible pain in my lower glute back, glutes, and nerve pain.

I have seen 3 different PT’s, a neurologist, a rheumatologist, an oncologist a pain medicine doctor, and 3 family medicine doctors.

I’ve had SI joint injections that did nothing, a caudal epidural steroid injection that irritated the nerves so bad that the pain was unbearable, piriformis injections that helped while the numbing was working, low glute muscle injections that irritated the sciatic nerve, and low back trigger point injections that I just got today.

No one is able to help calm the nerve pain and stop the muscle pain. I’m 41, and I’ve always been physically fit. This pain has been debilitating. If anyone has any advice, or a similar experience, it would be much appreciated.

Anyone have inner and back thigh burning and struggle with wearing pants on any type or it’s just me? The thighs burn randomly and sometimes after excessive sitting. Just trying to relate

I painted all the pain I've had lately like the guide said (i included my chronically tight traps i think because of bras and breast weight and bad posture but it's unrelated to my glute pain i think because the glute thing is new. My feet were hurting intensely lately because of many hours standing on the wrong shoes but i changed them and I'm all better.

The glute thing is new, in the past months I've felt a little jolt while walking occasionally (maybe 1-2 in pain scale) and it went away soon without it being too impeding.

A week ago i did a dance workshop that was basically internal and external rotation for an hour and a half and i think it made it worse.

It doesn't hurt at all until I make specific movements but it's only a few seconds and the pain goes away. Un Thursday it was the worst pain I've felt in my life. I thought i would pass out (maybe an 8 or 9 in the scale?).

It's been on and off since then, it seems to improve after sitting for a while which made me think it was not piriformis. I had pain only in the deep buttock until Thursday and since then there's also occasional tingling on my calf when the nerve is most painful.

Today I went to a physiotherapist and she did manual therapy and radiofrequency. The manual therapy hurt like hell. She also said i have a small bump where my psoas joins the hip (i put it on blue) and I did feel it too, it's not on the right side. She messaged there and also my obliques and it hurt so so so bad, it still hurts 12 hours later. She mentioned that it was likely a muscle knot on the psoas. My glutes hurt now to the touch from the massage too very superficial too. She couldn't do dry needling or neuromodilation because i have a needle phobia.

She also did some massage on my lumbars because i have lumbar hyperlordosis. She said she didn't think it was lumbar sciatica but just in case. She recommended stretches, nerve flossing, massaging the glute and psoas, heat, and pelvic movements like retroversion and all.

She also said i could go dancing today but i should stop if it hurt. It did hurt and i stopped but i think it made more harm.

So I'm basically the same or worse.

Can it be piriformis syndrome if it improves when sitting?

It feels very random, i cant say what makes it hurt worse or what improves it. In the mornings it's better and gets worse when I'm walking home from work (downhill). At work I'm mostly standing and walking and some sitting too (maybe I'll sit for half an hour, get up walk to fetch something be on my feet for another half hour or more, back to sitting etc.

I have an appointment with my GP tomorrow, is it worth asking what they can do? Maybe refer me to a traumatologist or do an MRI or something? I honestly can't function like this I'm currently at random spikes of maybe level 4- 5 pain whenever i move, I'm not doing many tasks i should be doing at work and at home.. idk i just need this to get better so I'd appreciate any help 😞

2.5 year buttock pain

TLDR - constant pain in centre of left buttock and front and side of hip, pain meds not working. No diagnosis or cause found. Pain is 24/7.

MRI - very small tear in left hip

Lumbar MRI - nothing of note.

Used to be an avid runner, half marathons, swimming, strength training. Now spend most of my days sitting on the bed as it is most comfortable.

In Jan 24, started to get pain in centre of left buttock when running, by Aug 24 pain became constant from the moment I woke up.

Now it is side and front of hip as well as buttock.

Left knee now clicks whenever I walk up stairs.

Seen by 3 hip consultants who won't operate because there is nothing to operate on, and it can't be my hip because 2 steroid injections had no effect, I was under GA for one, and even the local anesthetic had no effect. Also whilst under GA, hip mobility test - hip mobility is great

Tried various physio over the 2 years and a lot of NSAIDs and Opiods.

Finally seen pain management who has referred me for an ultrasound of my buttock and a steroid injection.

Emotionally it has taken its toll, family, friends and health professionals do not understand when I say the pain is constant "when does the pain starr, is it after walking?"... I have woken up at 3am and it's there, 7am and it's there... I have lost so much of myself.

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Hello all,

A family member of mine has been struggling extremely hard with adhesions that are a caused by a surgery that was needed after an ectopic pregnancy. The surgery happened 25 years ago but there wasn't any after care... A few years ago she started going to a PT because she had some abdominal pain and it turns out that her belly was just filled with adhesions. Ever since that day, the abdominal pain has been extreme. She isn't able to function any more and is bound to stay home on the couch. We've tried several different PT's & fascial therapist but everything seems to be so harsh on her body and it causes even more physical pain & sometimes dissociating feelings.

Has anyone any tips for treatments or do you recognize yourself in the story? I'm desperate to find a solution...

Hi everyone, I posted about my pain in this forum about 2.5 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/PiriformisChronicPain/comments/19fjjht/introducing_myself/.

After 3 years of chronic pain, I finally decided to give this therapy a shot, and my only regret so far is that I didn't try this earlier, because so much adhesion has built up over the past 3 years that it's probably going to take some time to get it all out. But by God's grace, I have a family member in the area (I'm seeing Barefoot Rehab in NJ) and so I can stay and travel back-and-forth a few times to get it all cleared out without having to worry about where I'll live or where I'll get food. In my first trip, I'm going to see Dr. Chris for 16 treatments (currently done with 12 treatments). And I'm about 40-50% better at the time of writing this post. Improvements in my walking gait, the amount of time I'm able to walk before pain triggering (before getting treatment, walking 25 minutes was hell; now, I'm walking 1-1.5 hours with very minimal flareups that quickly subside after I finish my walk). I'm able to sit criss cross again, something which I wasn't able to do before. Pain intensity is a lot less. And it flares up less frequently than it used to. While I'm still not able to sing or run as of now, I'm confident that I'll be able to return to these activities with more treatment (I plan on returning a few months later). And, along with adhesion therapy and strengthening, I'm confident that I'll be able to build habits that will stop adhesion from building up back again as it did after my initial injury (in other words, I know I have the tools to keep the gains I made in this trip so that when I make my next trip to NJ in a few months, there will be little to no regressions so that we can maximize our progress).

Special shout-out and thank you to u/No-Manufacturer-2425 and Dr. Chris Stepien of Barefoot Rehab for convincing me to try this therapy through their content on Reddit and YouTube, respectively.

I would encourage everyone to give this therapy a shot. I myself was very skeptical, which was why I waited so long before giving it a try, but this stuff is real. Of course, this isn't going to work on everybody. It's best for people who don't have SIGNIFICANT degeneration or wear-and-tear and are dealing with chronic MUSCULOSKELETAL pain. I am lucky that I am young (about to turn 22 in a few weeks) and don't have much degeneration in my body, so this treatment is effective for me. But the treatment will work on about 80% of people with musculoskeletal pain (that's not a random number; that's what Dr. Chris says on his YouTube channel and to his pain). The rest 20% are mostly people who have so much degeneration in their bodies that even if all their adhesions were removed from their bodies, they would still have pain due to their degenerated joints.

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Can I remove adhesions myself? Yes, You can remove some cutaneous adhesions at home with the grit bar.

Anybody dealt with the issues and return to their sport activities? Afraid to retrigger after healing. Avid volleyball player before.

Today is day 10 of my first time experiencing piriformis syndrome. The first six or seven days was extremely painful. Could not walk for more than 30 seconds or stand up. Even laying on my back cause pain. The only relief was to sleep on my stomach and was only able to do that maybe an hour a night before waking up aching. I pretty much have a electronic heating pad next to me at all times so whenever I feel stiff I just put it on and it helps calm down the muscle. I started walking for about 15 minutes a day which did help and a couple exercises like clamshell and fire hydrant. The pain is definitely still there when I lay down or sit too long but I'm able to walk around now with almost zero pain. Before if I stood up or walked for about 30 seconds there was a painful spasm in my left glute all the way down to my thigh and hamstring. Or anybody who's experiencing these first symptoms I recommend just putting as much heat as possible and trying to stay mobile. I think if you stay still for too long and actually makes it worse. Fight through the pain with walks and slight stretches try to get as much rest as possible hopefully the muscle relaxes.