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Sciatica pin only in my buttock

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don25191
don25191

Reading all the various contibutions on this excellent forum I get the impression that sciatic pain runs down one leg and is usually a sharp type pain.

I'm experiencing, however, more of an ache type pain in my buttock--it's certainly not like an electric shock running all the way down my leg.

A  recent MRI scan has confirmed "a significant disc extrusion at L4/5".

Is anyone else experiencing this type of pain restricted to deep inside the buttock?

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  • don25191
    don25191

    Posted

    Sorry, that should have obviously been "pain" and not "pin" in the heading!!

  • Guest
    Guest don25191

    Posted

    The nature of the pain can vary and move. It depends on where exactly the nerve is being pressed. And everything is more or less free to move. Some symptoms are more common than others but your symptoms are not inconsistent with pressure on the nerve from the disc.

    Have you been given any steroids or other medication?

    • don25191
      don25191 Guest

      Posted

      I had some cortisone injections but they didn't work!

    • Guest
      Guest don25191

      Posted

      Right. Steroids can help with inflammation if the nerve if that is the main cause of the pain but they can help much with direct pressure from a bulging disc, not least because the ongoing contact just causes new inflammation.

      Have you started any physio yet? This is a good plan as it can reduce symptoms over time by helping to take pressure off the disc and allowing it to get back into a healthier shape. You will find posts on here attesting to that, and a friend of mine with really bad symptoms avoided surgery that way.

    • Guest
      Guest

      Posted

      Sorry! That first sentence should have read

      Steroids CAN help with inflammation of the nerve if that is the main cause of the pain but they CAN'T help much with direct pressure from a bulging disc, not least because the ongoing contact just causes new inflammation.

    • don25191
      don25191 Guest

      Posted

      Thanks Mihael---that makes a lot of sense.
  • morning_74
    morning_74 don25191

    Posted

    I Have a disc herniation at L4 It hits my back in line with my hip, my thigh, the outside of my shin and sometimes my shin itself. My middle 3 toes and occasionally my groin, also can`t think why my thumbs.  For a couple of yrs it was just my buttock.

     

    • jessica_78456
      jessica_78456 morning_74

      Posted

      Ur thumbs will be something else maybe carpel tunnel or to do with the discs in yr neck arthuritis
    • morning_74
      morning_74 jessica_78456

      Posted

      I haven`t got carpel tunnel but could be my neck has had a injury there yrs ago. It always coinsides with when my back has a really bad spasm so maybe the way I am holding my spine.
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