Is this worth going to the doctor?

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The last six months or so I have been getting a pain in my arse cheek.

It started doing it when I was on my period but now just does it all the time, some days worse than others.

I can feel the pain building up in my right buttock and then the pain, almost feels like someone is squeezing it with a clamp lasts for around 60 seconds, hard to breath and makes my leg go numb. Then it fades away again until the next time.

I suspect the GP won't be able to do an awful lot about it... Is it worth going anyway?

Could it be sciatica

Possibly...? That's what my mum thought too.

And this might be in my head but when the pain starts I feel like I can feel my vagina/cervix/that sort of area like spasming as well?

Bump 😁

Probably worth going to an osteopath tbh!

Sorry I get a pain that is very much like sciatica but it is caused by a very tight muscle that runs from hip to hip under your buttocks (or something like that!).

I get this!!! I have it in both arse cheeks!! If I press in the middle of my butt cheek it’s sore, almost like a bruise but I have to get right in there (I don’t do this a lot). It gets worse around my period, I’ve asked my physio and she said it’s related to the sciatic nerve and showed me a stretch for it, when I do it it does actually really help and feel quite nice. It’s that one when you lay on you back, pull up your knees and drop them to one side then reach over and stretch your arms out in the opposite direction to your legs... reach out and you’ll feel the pull down your lower back into your butt, it feels great. It’s worse around your period because evrything swells down there and put pressure on the nerves. Stretches and gentle excercise will definately help x sometimes I just sit on a hot water bottle to ease it x

And yes it feels like it affects bloody everything in that area, it’s a big arse nerve and when it becomes sensitive so does everything around it x

I had this. Ended up going to a Chiropractor because I could barely walk or sit on it!
I was a hypertonic piriformis (as well ad many other things!), he had to 'dig it out' through mechanical and hand message. I won't lie it hurt..a lot.. and at first he could barely touch it because of the pain but eventually it did ease.

Another at home exercise is to put a tennis ball between you and a wall and roll it over the affected area.
I'd definitely recommend seeing a chiropractor or osteopath though, well worth it. Your GP will probably just give you amitriptyline (chiropractor said they dish it out like sweets) which does help but you need an expert.

I went to the osteopath who said I was to go to my doctor as I have quite severe nerve damage for my age.

Turns out I don't have hardly any reflex in my right leg or strength when compared to the left leg

That's a good osteopath now heed his words!