Ok I'm currently suffering pain from the space between L5 and S1, sounds familiar I'm sure. I've seen a few physios and so far have received no diagnosis. I've had an Wikipedia reference-linkmri which revealed nothing but a slight bulge to the right side of L4 and L5's disc but this doesn't seem to be the source of my pain. The next step I'm told is a specialist and injections etc...not keen.

The part I can't understand is this. I can feel something hard as bone (it has to be bone) the rounded head seems to be maybe 5mm in diameter and right up against the base of the L5 spinous but also offset to the right by again roughly 5mm to the line between L5 and S1. It is also a few mm inset compared to the spinous process of the vertebrae.

How can an MRI not pick this up? The pain goes into the rhs gluteus medius and rhs outer thigh/hammy. If I press into the side of my hip at the top centre it is excricuating.

I find bending forward feels relieving, whereas if I hang and go limp something feels wrong and under lots of pressure in that area. I can't take time off work and I keep paying for someone to say "we'll do these exercises slightly differently and see how that goes". How can something so solid be that hard to identify?

PLease if you've treated or had anything like this I'd be appreciative of some advice.

Cheers,

Jarrath.

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