What is this pain after birth? Top of leg, under buttock! Help

[HowAboutNo]

I'm 2 weeks pp and a week ago I developed a pain under my bum at the top of my leg - it's like a deep, muscular type pain and hurts when I stand, sit, lie, whatever.

It's really getting me down now and isn't due to constipation or anything, it's almost as if it's in the bone... I'm going to the doctors tomorrow but for some reason I'm really anxious about it and scared it's something bad. Weird.

Anyone had anything similar? FWIW, I had an epidural as I was induced.

[AntinousWild]

My sciatica presents exactly like this.

[HowAboutNo]

Interesting - does anything help relieve the pain? DH is going back to work next week and I'm worried about being alone with DD as sometimes the pain makes it hard to do much!

[CorporateRockWhore]

My first thought was sciatica too. I still get pain in my hip since having two babies and in the morning my leg often feels really painful as if right in the bone. Good luck op!

[allisgood1]

I have this at 26 weeks and have been told it's sciatica. I'm currently seeing a private Physio who works on it (which helps for a few hours then it just comes back) and have been given a support belt (which I haven't tried yet!).

[HowAboutNo]

Just googled sciatica and it mentions shooting pain down the leg - I don't have this, im the pain in very much in just once place under my buttock. It's a really deep pain, like at the bone. Does this still sound like sciatica?

[HowAboutNo]

Sorry for the typos, bf'ing!

[IglooisnowinSheffield]

I had this 6 days after having DS2, the pain was horrendous it turned out to be a varicose vein trapped under a muscle. You couldn't see anything and it relieved itself with 5 days. I think I was advised to take ibuprofen.

[Lucked]

Could be sciatica or could be a form of Pelvic girdle pain, A slipped SI joint will result in hip pain. I ended up on crutches after my second birth due to a dodgy SI joint. Can you self refer to maternity physios?

[Hrrrm]

Get it checked out ASAP - it could be a haematoma.

[allisgood1]

My pain is in the same place as yours OP. But I'm pregnant not postnatal.

[idlevice]

It could be something to do with your pelvic floor having been affected by being pregnant & giving birth. There are the pelvic floor muscles you squeeze when you do those exercises but there are other parts closer to your core that can be affected & might need helping out with some pilates-type exercise, preferably guided by a physio.

I found this out as I had a similar pain & went to see a physio, who said - in simple terms - that other muscles & tendons were taking over the job of the weakened pelvic muscles & getting strained, hence the pain. You can self-refer to NHS physio in most areas I believe - otherwise your GP can refer you.

[dennant]

I had exactly this and it was a trapped nerve, physio managed to release it and not had a problem since.