Denouement

Crap indeed! I hope it's nothing serious Michelle, good luck with the doctor! Sending good vibes your way!

I hope that you can get into the Doc today and that it is nothing too serious. I am impressed that you are not running through the pain - but imagine you are pretty frustrated right now.

Nobody knows the crap your talking about better than me, hang in there and try and get to the doctor as quick as you can;-)

Aww sorry for the pain. Hopefully you feel better. I hear you on pain = "bummer" (haha literally and figuratively!). If it is any consolation I did not have yesterday off. I had to go to school :(

I had to work yesterday too. I should have gone by and egged Dr Brady's office for you! What exactly is a "holy mother of crap?" I have to say that you are cracking me up ;D I hope the bum gets better fast!

Could you please play that through you clean video player and see what it bleeps out? That is weak for PG-13! I was expecting a lot worse. Maybe you need to go and buy a doughnut to sit on? Maybe even eat a couple while you are at it. I hope that pain goes away real soon!

Thanks for the laughs guys.

I'll update my blog with the diagnosis (got into the doctor this morning).

Clay - I know I am such a baby to whine about a condition you and other running buddies have been in for so long. I am an addict :/

Benn - puns are not fun! Sorry you had to go to school.

Marion - Next time we'll go do it together :) Especially after the length of needles he put in my backside, is that a reflection of how big he assessed my posterior to be? Holy mother of crap - not me, I am the mother of angels. The Destroying Angel who hands out injuries to the running faithful, I'd say that's the unholy mother of crap.

Tyler - knock it off! I can't eat anything now that I'm not running (yeah like that's going to happen). I'm going to be like one of those miniature animals you soak in water and watch them quadruple in size overnight :(

Oh yeah and Tyler, I wrote PG, not PG 13. It was basically a warning to the Pachev family and any other who would find the c word offensive. I think its crass but I can't give it up. It my innocuous expletive of choice.

I am so sorry to hear about your pain in the rear! It sounds so painful, as does the hot stone thing ;-).

Good luck Michelle ...

Well flaming poopy, that stinks! I feel your pain with the SI stuff...every day. Hopefully you will not become so familiar with it that that you start rattling off phrases like "sacrum", "ischium", and "proximal tendon insertion point" without wincing.

Enjoy your time off, use it to refresh your body and mind, and to get hungry to train again. And eat whatever you want; life is short.

Your doctor visit description sounds more like a witch doctor, jk, I've actually been to him before;-) If I don't get better soon I might be going back to him!

Clay, you know what I am going to say. . .

You should have gone to him a couple of months ago ;)

That is a LONG needle, ouch!!! And something that feels like worms crawling on my skin would have me running out of that office faster than you can say DONUT!

Thanks for the great laugh. I am not laughing at your pain, just your way of dealing with it. I have never laughed hard enough to make my bum hurt, though. Hmmm....you are funny. I, too, was expecting some very crass words, but crap is not on my list of crass. You are very morally superior, I suppose. Or I am just down there with the dust and worms.

Feel better soon, take it easy, eat 2 pounds of chocolate, and call Dr Brady in the morning.

Maybe we need to make an offering to he Unholy Mother of Crap. Do you think she'd take a burnt offering of old running shoes covered in used acupuncture needles?

DON'T MARION! YOU ARE MAKING MY BUM HURT FROM THE LAUGHTER!

Kelli - don't knock it till you try it. That's just the way I explain it. It made my tissues around the patches tingle and get all warm. It was sweet. I would eat two pounds if I had two pounds. Good thing my pantry is full of boring food.

I am sure it feels great, it would just FREAK me out if it felt like something was crawling on me. I SCREAM like a baby when a hair falls on me, I always think it is a bug! I am a wee bit squeamish, or a big chicken/baby, however you want to phrase it.

I will FedEx you some chocolate, I have way too much (the Valentine stuff was all on clearance!) I also have some old shoes to donate to the burnt offering. But if I mail them together, the chocolate will taste like stinky shoes.

Michelle- I know... But my insurance won't pay for it so its kind of hard to put out the money;-( But even then I probably wouldn't have went, I'm just to dang stubborn!

Clay - its a fine cocktail of stubbornness, time lost, and money. But his cash price is only $42 after the first trip, so its not that much more than my $25 copay (and I went more than 26 times last year, so I ended up at that rate in December).

Paul's comment about flaming poopy almost made me fall out of my chair . . . :D Sorry you are hurting, I have had electric stimulation before - it's not bad at all, as long as they don't turn it up too strong. From your (and others') comments about Dr. Brady, sounds like he is a real good doc to work with. I remember one time at BYU where they were treating my PF with ultrasound/stim, and they turned it up too strong and the muscles in my foot started to contract and cramp up. Get better soon.

So I've already had the first visit will he only charge $42 dollars now or do I have to go through the first visit again?

Michelle--Has your doctor ever said running on a treadmill might cause this issue? I don't know how much you run on a treadmill, but I used to run a lot, at least 3x week, and I've had a pain in my glute for at least the past two to three years. I have not run on a treadmill for about 3 weeks now and the pain seems to be lessening. Just wonder if you know of any coorelation between treadmill running and glute/hamstring pain.

i am sorry to hear about your injury, but man, this entry made me laugh hard. funny! i hope it gets to feeling better soon.

Oh geez, sorry to hear about your injury. I know too many people that run anyway, so that's good that you are committed to listening to the good doctor. Hope you have a speedy recovery! Hang in there!

That stinks but I have to say, from experience with SI problems, if you don't let it go too long and get to the chiro and ice and STRETCH every day, it gets better quick. I had problems the week of Hobblecreek but was amazed that it got better in just a few days and was able to run fine. Good luck!

Those expletives were my sentiments exactly. However I don't seem to get my injuries from running just seem to attract them when doing other things besides running. But like you nothing will keep me too long away from running. Because of my big fall Monday, I had to take Tuesday off. There was no way I was taking Wednesday off too. Hang in there, our addiction is definitely mind boggling to the un-addicted. We all feel your pain (of not being able to run). I am hopeful you will get great results for actually listening to the Dr.

Hey Clay, I went again yesterday, and asked, they said so long your last treatment was less than 3 years ago, you are considered a returning client. The self pay rates did go up as of 1/1/09 to $45, though.

Ouch MichelleL! I got a stress fracture in my sacrum two years ago that ran along the length of my SI Joint. After it happened, I couldn't even walk for two days. Couldn't run for 6 months. I was able to do elliptical training though about three weeks after it happened. The key will be keeping all those muscles in the area from getting too tight. Good luck. Have you had a bone scan or MRI?

Michelle,

I had chronic SI problems until I found an exercise called a "one leg straight leg dead lift." For an illustration, see the 4th exercise down:

http://www.strengthcoach.com/public/1606.cfm

This exercise targets the glutes and deep hip rotators in functional way that stabilizes the whole SI pelvic sacral complex.

Good luck.

(Isn't PG level expletive an oxymoron?)

Phoenix - I had been doing an exercise similar this, only I was holding dumbbells in both hands. Do you think it's safe to do these exercises now that my soreness is going down, or only when I am healed?

PG expletive - only in Utah. Oxymorons are wickedly angelic.

The simple complexity of the "one leg straight leg dead lift" makes is a great functional exercise. IMHO, holding the dumbell in the hand opposite the the stationary leg is best because it creates a tortional stress across the body, activiting the hip rotators. I find that I get better rotator activation when I keep knee bend a little less than in the link in my first comment. I've also found that hip muscle/glute/rotator activation tends to be greatest at the end of sets. Accordingly, I do sets of at least 20, because its really the last 10 reps that fire up the muscles I'm trying to target. I've also found that doing at least 1 set everyday is helpful and prevents my SI complexes from stiffening up. Overall, its an issue of body awareness, and the more you do the exercise, the better you get a perceiving its nuances and tailoring it to your specific needs.

For me, I 1) let pain be my guide, and 2) adhere to a systematic progression. So, if I was in your situation, I might do a few with body weight only on day 1, and then systematically increase the workload on a daily basis, barring an adverse reaction to the previous days work.

A stupifyingly intelligent path to full functionality.

Funny and much better than the one I could come up with.

stupefaction complete.