Upper glute pain

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2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 8:41am EDT

Started while easy running. Pain in the upper part of the buttock, extending to the outter side and inwards. Now 5 days no running. Pain when running and walking and jumping on one leg, but most of all when walking. Pain occurs when you put weight on your leg and especially when you let go. Slight pain when standing on one leg and swaying from side to side. It hurts a little when you use the massage gun. No pain with strength training and cycling, little bit of pain from ellipsoid.

At first I thought it was just muscle overuse after the gym. But now it seems that everything is much more complicated.

Possibly a stress fracture? But I don't have any obvious severe pain from jumping. Tried tests on labral tear - no pain when twisting legs.

Any ideas?

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 8:56am EDT

re: dimka11

does it hurt when you stand on one leg to put your pants on?

I had a sacral stress fracture on the right side this whole winter. Just happened out of nowhere (well there were some signs and I was hurting a lot on my right side on the track but kept 'running' on it). symptoms included sharp pain in my very low back, in my right buttock, and it was really painful when I had to put pants on and stand on one leg.

Mine was confirmed by MRI (x-ray showed nothing).

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 9:01am EDT

re: stress reaction?

Crap. This sounds like what I have going on too.

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 9:05am EDT

re: stress reaction?

And how long did the recovery take?

I think I'll have to do an MRI in a couple of weeks if the condition doesn't change.

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 9:18am EDT

re: dimka11

I had this for a couple months at the start of this year, turns out it was where the piriformis roots into the upper part of the glute, and the gluteal medius was effected too. all this was compounded by it pulling on the sciatic nerve which made the pain sharper but also made it more confusing where things were originating from

it took a total of 3months to get back to regular movement; including a massive amount of hip strengthening, avoiding cycling (didnt feel bad but does actually aggravate/prolong the issue because of the position), avoiding stretching your piriformis with cross-body stretches

My main learnings were: stop cycling no matter what you believe, stop trying to run on it, be super careful in your return because i got really bad tendinitis in both my gracilis and adductors from over-compensation when other muscles (hip and glute medius) werent firing correctly

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 11:06am EDT

re: dimka11

Same thing. Upper glute pain started during a moderate pace 7 mile run two weeks ago - got much worse shortly after stopping. My MRI showed nothing but the pain is lingering. I've tried to run a few times and the pain gets worse afterwards so I'm probably prolonging the recovery. Now the pain moved more towards the upper inside of my butt so I probably caused some damage to an area that was getting stressed from the initial injury. I'm really hoping it's muscular and will heal before too long.

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 11:13am EDT

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I\'ll write the book wrote:
Same thing. Upper glute pain started during a moderate pace 7 mile run two weeks ago - got much worse shortly after stopping. My MRI showed nothing but the pain is lingering. I've tried to run a few times and the pain gets worse afterwards so I'm probably prolonging the recovery. Now the pain moved more towards the upper inside of my butt so I probably caused some damage to an area that was getting stressed from the initial injury. I'm really hoping it's muscular and will heal before too long.

And the doctor tried a dozen movements/positions to test for pain. Not one of them caused any pain. He said that looks good. I said you didn't ask when it does hurt...which is when I put my weight on the leg or take it off the leg. Walking and running hurt - sometimes more sometimes less.

2 weeks ago 06/27/2024 11:14am EDT

re: dimka11

dimka11 wrote:
And how long did the recovery take?
I think I'll have to do an MRI in a couple of weeks if the condition doesn't change.

Yes, get the MRI if it lasts for a few weeks. It could be a number of things - glute tendinitis, glute muscle strain, sacral stress fracture, herniated disc, etc.

1 week ago 06/30/2024 3:11am EDT

re: BrainCelll

I also had adductor tendonitis on left leg, pain especially where exercising on
adductor machine.
And now my left buttock hurts a little, if I lift my right leg lying down, it’s very strange. (probably some other tendonitis?)

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