Buttock/hip pain

[LadyMedea]

I've got SPD/PGP but this week have also developed serious pain in my 'hips and buttocks when in bed made worse by of course lying on one side or another. I'm assuming its because the oval that is your pelvis is now all flexible and is contorting from lying on it.

The other night something really went and I was in agony and couldn't move. Did some googling and realised my piriformis muscle (didn't know I had one of those) had gone into spasm, which also explained the sciatica I'd been getting as your sciatic nerve runs through this muscle. It's the muscle that connects your coccyx with your femur running horizontally across your buttock.

Anyway, I'm doing the piriformis stretch 3 times a day and although it hasn't fixed the underlying pelvic problem it has brought my arse out of spasm..... So I thought I'd share it with you in case anyone else was suffering from hip pain in bed.

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Me too, thanks for sharing!

Ugh, it looks like I'm going to need this. Thank you.

Thanks! I have my physio appointment tomorrow, but shall check this out later..

ooh thanks for sharing. I was in agony this morning due to this. I shall give it a go.

Cool thanks! I have had sciatica for years - there is one thing that helps me sleep on my side when it is bad - is a pillow between my knees supporting all the way down to the foot.
Bit of a pain when you have to turn over, but at least I get some sleep in between.

Thank you so much for the links, will be trying that out as have been in agony recently.

Thank you for the link. Im starting to get the hip & buttock pain too.

Oh the joys!

I tried very hard to do pretty much nothing yesterday and slept with a pillow between my legs all night. It really helped - I actually got some sleep and my hips feel much better this morning.