I've been experiencing back pain for about 18 years and had back surgery eight years ago. However, since then, I have been having this excruciating pain in my low back on right side. I have been to see numerous doctors and can't seem to find why I am having this pain. Finally, a pain management specialist diagnosed SI joint dysfunction. The symptoms were obvious but no one ever diagnosed it until now. I am ecstatic just to know finally what problem is instead of it being a mystery. But now going to physical therapy and doing exercises doesn't seem to do much.

I've had SI dysfunction since my son was born. It is mainly on my right side (pelvis and sacrum). It also radiates to the left side and affects my legs and knees. It hurts where I bend over. By the end of the day or sooner, I feel like collapsing. My legs get weak and achy. I also have lumbar scoliosis, which is probably caused by this disease. My right hip is tilted and higher than the left hip which is causing all kinds of radiating pain. Everyday, the pain is somewhere different. Other days, it is everywhere at the same time. That's when I will take Vicodin or Aleve. I find resting my back by lying on a firm surface (carpet) and putting a rolled up pillow under my head helps my neck, back and pelvic problems. Sometimes my tailbone acts like it is being strained. The pain is a strained, pulling and painful sensation. It causes me to walk funny, if I can walk at all. My hips including my pubic bone will "freeze" up. It's all so weird and there is no MRI scan that will prove SI dysfunction.

I am a 39 year old mom of three. I have been suffering with SI for over 10 years now and I've had Chiropractic treatments and Physical therapy and nothing has worked for me. I always thought it was my lower back but it wasn't. Now that I know what I'm dealing with I have no other choice but to turn to a pain management doctor, because my pain has gotten so unbearable.

About 1 year ago I began having flare-ups of what I now know is the sacroiliac joint. The pain was so unbearable I would have to leave work and to my puzzlement, severe nausea always accompanied the pain. Ibuprofen did help, as did lying down on the affected side or on my stomach. And as one of the past posters stated, I could lift nothing of substance or bend in any way without it bringing on a flare-up. I have been seeing a chiropractor for about 2-3 months and while I do continue to have some flare-ups they are much milder and much less frequent. I can also do things such as gardening and yesterday I was even lifting bags of mulch without pain.

I have suffered with SI joint pain since a car accident over 10 years ago. I have tried everything in an attempt to ease the pain when I have a flare up. Currently I undergo RF injections at the Pain Management Clinic at my local hospital. During this procedure the nerve endings are effectively "cooked", and then they take however long to grow back. This has been the most effective treatment for me personally. On any average day I have constant pain in my SI joint, but you just learn to live with it. I take pregabalin, tramadol, naproxen and strong paracetamol on a daily basis. I feel it's a matter of me controlling the pain, and not the pain controlling me.

I have had SI problems since an accident resulted in a hip contusion. I've been through physical therapy and do stretching every day. When it goes out, I now go to my Chiropractor, who I have been seeing for at least 8 years for it. It is the only thing that puts it back in place. You do have to do your stretching every day though, especially for your hamstrings and do hip flexion. I would highly recommend seeing a chiropractor. By the way, I am also an RN.

My assumption is that I have some sort of Sacroiliac problem however, seeing many doctors with at least 3 MRIs and 2 CTs they do not see anything abnormal for a 66 year old man. At least nothing that they get concerned with. The symptoms are and not restricted to includes pain in the S1 area with numbness that projects down the leg into the hip and then into the feet. If I stand in one place for 5 minutes the left hip gets painful and numb and then of course down the left leg to the foot. It really gets bad if I don't keep moving or sit. At some times you can't find somewhere to sit and/or you have to stand in line. What a pain. I end up not desiring what I had to stand in line for. Sometimes I think the medical community is not interested unless it is an easy diagnosis with a quick fix or, at least treatment.