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This is long... thank you for taking the time to read, I am lost:(

29 yr old Female..

I have had chronic pain in the back of my legs for about ten years. For the longest time my P-doc thought it was tight hamstrings because I am quite active, I am at the gym at least three to five days a week.


The pain was only while I was sitting, if I worked out, walked.. slept... anything else I was fine. I have a desk job so this was an issue, as I sit at all day. The pain ran from the bottom of my buttocks to the knee.. aching pain. I had to stand up every 30 mins or so to relieve the pain.



Finally I made an apt with a orthopedic, he took an xray and said it could be a bulging disc. I was then referred me to a pain management doctor. This doctor said the disc is not bad enough to cause the chronic pain in my legs. He did some testing, moving my legs etc. and thinks it's my sacriolic joint and sets me up for steriod shots.


I got them done and felt good for a month, then the pain comes back but not as bad...he set me up for a round of second shots, as he stated this time the pain should be gone longer. I get those done and feel ok for a few days. I was told I could go back to normal activity, in fact the fist time I had the shots I went to the gym the day after and was fine. Well I went to the gym three days later....and the day after that.


The next morning, 5 days after the injection, I was in excruciating pain...I go see him he says it's just inflammation and to take aleve and rest....I do this for a week and the pain doesn't go away. I go back and he sets up a MRI which comes back normal.


Then he suggests that we do a test injection and injects it with pain killers first. I go back, third time getting this done in a month! I get the pain killer shot and he has me get up and walk around. The pain was gone! I get back under the xray and then he injects it with a steriod again, a water soluble one (not sure if this makes a difference, but the first two were not water soluble), this was over a week ago.


I'm back to excruciating pain, I can't walk our do anything. This pain is new, I never had this issue till the second round of shots. I do not know what to do, I am an active person. I'm afraid this is permanent. I go tommorow to see him again and am refusing any shots again, I wish I never went to him.


My problem now is NOT the original reason I went to go see this doctor. I have sever pain where the joint is, sharp shooting pain down my buttocks and leg, NOT in the same spot. This is new, I seriously think he messed some thing up. He stated he has never had this issue in his 30 plus years of practice....


I can not walk without being in crippling pain, I cant lay on my back... move my leg in any direction with out sharp bad pain.