Severe Sacroiliac Dysfunction - Tried all currently known no

I am so sorry your insurance is giving you a hard time for this surgery! I too had some issues, however Dr Swiontkowski's team is amazing and they can write a letter of appeal and send back up info with it. TRIA had to write appeals for me a couple of times and each time Insurance gave in and approved a procedure. I am also in my 30's with a business and 2 boys. After missing years of fun with my family because of horrible pain I finally had the surgery. Dr Swiontkowski did an amazing job and in the near future will be doing my left si joint. I wish you luck with your insurance... and many pain free years ahead!

Try something called the Egoscue Method. It is postural realignment, you might have to work with someone who is a pro at it, but it has been proven to get people out of chronic pain. My husband also suffers from SIJD and I found that is the only method that takes his chronic pain and gives it a pause for him to breath (he also is in 24 hr pain). He unfortunately fell again and I couldn't afford another 12 sessions, but I am hoping that can be his therapy when we are done fighting workers comp. Don't stop looking for answers. Our bodies are amazing machines that when given the proper instructions and tools can heal themselves. We are also on the quest. Good luck! I hope you will take my advice and it helps.

Your strength and determination is a wonderful quality in you but of course you will also need to be realistic. I know from experience that this condition well get worse over time. I have had problems since I was 25 years old and I am now 63. I have been on disability since I was 55. Even if you continue to keep working and struggling along don't wait to file foe social security disability benifits since your benifits will be retroactive to the date you filed should you ever need to.
Good luck and may god bless you.

i, too, have a problem with sijd, i'm pretty sure. I had a rfa of my si facet joints over 7 weeks ago, and it didn't work. i am in much more pain than i have ever been in. not only do i still have more sijd pain, but now i have bad headaches every day that medicine don't help, pain in both shoulders, knees and hands neither of which i had before the rfa. i don't know what to do now. can'stand this pain much longer.
does anyone have any suggestions? i am 72 years old and i think this just might be what takes me out. help!

What other pain have you suffered ; ( physical ) that makes you think you can work a physical job with 8-10 pain on Tylenol ? That pain would be from someone with an amputation, Major Surgery and Chronic Pain. There iz no way you'd be working. Cheers Carol

You are really making a troll reply to a post from 2012?

I develeped bilateral SIJ dysfunction during my pregnancies although it looks like I had some underlying issues prior to that. It is now 4 years sine I had my 2ND child and I am still undergoing active treatment.
At my most severe post partum I was barely functional even just being at home and off of work. What started me on a road to recovery is prolotherapy. I have been getting monthly injections for almost 2 years and have been seeing baby step improvements with most treatments. The other big revealation was figuring out all the different pains I was experiencing -sharp, stabbing ligament pain around the sacrum, TONS of compensatory muscle strain, nerve pain through mid back (directly related to amount of muscle spasm through mid back) that felt like an awful mind numbing dull toothache, pain in pubic symphysis joint and tailbone joints. The other issue that became clear with time is that the many muscles (neck to knees) that were considered weak were actually inhibited by the body's protective mechanism to prevent further injury. It has been very slow going with decreasing the inhibition but I will take the baby step improvents-Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) has been helping for this. I find that wearing the Bauerfeind SacroLoc belt low through the sacrum AND the Serola belt at the iliac crest level is most helpful for me. I have also been using an EMS machine to help with improving proper muscle activation. Reading the Brains Way of Healing and The Brain That Changes Itself have also been eye opening as a chronic pain sufferer. If your issues are due to ligament problems try prolotherapy-it has been almost miraculous seeing how my body responds and adjusts to each treatment.

I'm sorry. I understand. I'm 29 and ready to pull my hair out. I pray God touches your wounds and painful areas no o e else can see or heal

Does the prolotherapy help really? I'm 29 yrs old I jolted my sij into that compensatory pattern and ligament issues. For 4 yrs my bodies been adapting everyday every step or it seems every breath my bodies trying to adapt and my family has no more answers for me I cry all the time plz help. Just go e me an outline. I feel my sij hasn't been in place or in a position e position in at least 2 yrs. No treatment. Just prayer