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i have lower back , buttock , and hip pain what could it be it hurts worse when sitting or laying down
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Hi amberea

First I want to welcome you to the Pain Management Forum and let you know that we are glad you found this Forum. I want to let you know that there are NO Doctors on this Forum only CP - Chronic Pain - Patients that help each other with our OWN expertise and experiences that we have developed through our OWN CP Issues.

I'm VERY sorry that you are having these lower back problems and the pain that goes with it!!  I UNDERSTAND exactly the unrelenting pain that you are experiencing.  I suffer from SEVERE Degenerative Disc Disease and I have unrelenting pain also.

There are MANY possibilities that could be causing this TERRIBLE pain that you are having.  If COULD be caused by the Sciatic Nerve OR it could be a ruptured disc or many other problems with the spine.  

I URGE you to go to your Doctor and have him run the NECESSARY tests to locate and then treat whatever it may be.  Have you been to a Doctor about this yet?  IF so, what did he say that he thought was causing this?  

If your Doctor CAN'T find ANYTHING - DON'T give up keep trying different Doctor's UNTIL you are able to get an accurate diagnosis. Like I said - "DON'T GIVE UP" as you DESERVE an answer to your pain.

Best of Luck and PLEASE keep up updated on what your Doctor says!!........Sherry
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Hi rockygurl,

I'm sorry about the problems that you are enduring.

IF you would go up to the top of the page and click on the green tab "Post a Question" and start your OWN thread you will get a LOT more answers than you will on someone else's thread.  :)

I HOPE that you will do this as I'm REALLY afraid not many will see this on amberea's thread and it makes it VERY confusing for the original poster amberea.

Thank you so very much and I look forward to seeing your own thread! :)...........Sherry

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I suffer from total body CRPS/RSD and this last year developed severe right hip pain.  I was given two Bursa Nerve Blocks, which did nothing but exacerbate the pain.  In an MRI taken two years ago, it showed that I had developed Failed Back Syndrome, and I am still trying to find what that is, along with mild Scoliosis and a bulging disc at the L 3/L 4 (I think I got them right) but due to the position of the bulge, they were unable to determine if the bulge had actually ruptured.  Shortly after the MRI, my right hip pain became more severe.  When I get up from either the bed or chair, it takes me forever to be able to walk without leaning on the wall, and that has just started occurring. It almost makes me cry.  I saw my Pain Management doc this last Wednesday and told him and he said he could do Blocks and I had to remind him we already tried two and they didn't work.  He is new as my former Pain doc who was the Pain Center Director, left the University Pain Center I go to, to go into private practice.  I told my friend who was able to follow him to his private practice, that the new doctor goes back and forth between patients and just a short distance is an extension hospital of the University Hospital I go to, to do Blocks.  I asked the Receptionist could she schedule me on a day he doesn't do Blocks and she said all patient days are Block days as well and my appointment was at 10:30 AM and I didn't see him until close to 1 PM, and this kind of care is unacceptable.  And I intend on asking him if this is the kind of care he is going to be providing as an ongoing patient/treatment program, because if he is, I want to change to a pain physician who will spend more than 30 seconds, that or just have my prescriptions ready for me.  It's difficult enough for me to drive, let alone to have to wait in a freezing office, which causes my pain to skyrocket.

He just ignores my constant reminder of my now increasing right hip pain and to top it off the other night, when looking for something I misplaced, I moved the washer and dryer to look between them, lost my balance and fell backwards and landed on the right hip, so my pain is now non relenting.  And I am supposed to leave in a week to spend Christmas with my Dad in GA, and it will be a long day since I live in CA, and have to change planes once each way, meaning I will be worn out for several days.

Any ideas on how to deal with my pain doc?  Could my spinal problems be causing my right hip pain?  It doesn't radiate down the leg, it's right in the hip area and is now radiating more towards the right side of my abdomen.  I also have a hernia where a scar had formed initially when I had my right tube and ovary removed when I was only 21.  So the pain docs would use the same scar to place Spinal Cord Stimulators (3) and Intrathecal Pumps (2) and a hernia developed, and I wonder if this is also part of my pain.

Thanks for any ideas or help, especially a nice way to talk to my Pain Management doc because I have a bad habit of just saying it like it is.
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144586 tn?1284666164
This is characteristic of pain from compression of the sciatic nerve.

Do a medhelp search. This subject had been extensively covered.
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