Pain in the morning where my fat bump is

[bunnymom]

For the past several weeks when I wake up I have pain where my (smaller now) fat bump is and also my tailbone. Is this PMR? Ortho Dr says it has nothing to do with my bulging neck disc. I use a heat pad and it passed after several hours. Feels like a bruise. Thanks friends.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

I used to have bruised feelings around that area. Usually when my back was playing up - muscular.

[bunnymom in reply to PMRpro]

I think you are probably right. Will try and see if ice will do the trick. I do love my warm wheat pad when it's cold outside tho.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to bunnymom]

Tight muscles usually prefer warmth.

[SnazzyD]

I now get a pain in the spine at fat bump level and I know it is from rubbish posture from a lot of sitting about feeling weak and tired. When on my keyboard, I crane my neck forward and my head slightly back because my Pred altered eyes mean by bifocals don’t work like they used to. The cervical spine gets very annoyed.

My tail bone has had two sessionsof months with being really very sore as if bruised and funnily enough one of those is now. With the first one, pre Pred/GCA the osteopath suggested it was due to small muscles and ligaments in the pelvic area pulling unevenly and treated me as such with success. I’m off to my Bowen lady to sort me out tomorrow.

[bunnymom in reply to SnazzyD]

I have been working on better posture and stronger. I suspect that it's a muscle issue and not PMR. It does seem to come and go. Thanks

[SheffieldJane]

Common sense would say it was related but who am I.........etc.?

Can you change your pillow arrangements. I just wondered if it could be linked to the angle you sleep at. What about Magnesium? Might that help. I hope it passes quickly!

[Purple-Owl]

Where is your fat bump?

[bunnymom in reply to Purple-Owl]

Base of my neck, sets on top of my shoulders.

[Telian]

We've all got one....

[bunnymom]

Rhuemy says he thinks it's myofasial and said tens machine or acupuncture. I get relief with heat and then I press and massage.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

This might be interesting to many of us

painscience.com/tutorials/t...

[Mic67 in reply to PMRpro]

Great article!

[bunnymom in reply to PMRpro]

Very useful information. Thank you. Have you bought this book? I am wondering what I can do for myself.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to bunnymom]

No I haven't - I don't buy on the internet except for my Kindle and that is paid for by my daughter as my xmas/b'day presents!

I put it up because of the fact this stuff isn't easily available for public consumption and many doctors remain unaware of it despite it having been mainstream in Central Europe for many years, including research into the nature of the trigger points (they are concentrations of the same cytokines that cause PMR when they are systemic). I'm inclined to suspect that many cases of fibro are actually MPS - the trigger points coincide with the fibro points but they doctors don't understand the difference between them - and that many more are combined with PMR in younger patients.

They do tend to return unless very firmly "rubbed out" - I had almost but not quite got rid of the shoulder ones in 1990 when I returned to the UK after 9 months of heroic massage therapy in Germany from a sports physio. I sought help in the UK - and was laughed at at first. In the NE of England I joined a diet class with friends and got the taste for exercise I could manage and started aquafit and Pilates as well as - having also found my 2 super-NHS physios. That kept me mobile and upright until I moved here. Some 6 years ago it got to crisis point again - so really I had coped for well over 10 years which I find acceptable and it was a whiplash injury that made them worse again. After all these years my posture is poor - I know that - and it doesn't help. But I'm hoping I am starting on a process that may get them at least faint enough to be able to do some physio to build my back muscles again.

[bunnymom in reply to PMRpro]

I was interested as the article mentioned some self help ideas. I just purchased a tens machine to give a try. I hate the thought of working my way thru the medical field to get help but it may come to that. I don't want another prescription.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to bunnymom]

Do tell me how your tens works - it hadn't occurred to me. I wonder if the pain doc has an opinion one way or the other.

[bunnymom in reply to PMRpro]

It was recommended by my Rhuemy believe it or not. Ortho Dr told me it was PMR. Will keep you posted. Very reasonable price.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to bunnymom]

What sort have you got? Does intermittent use work?

[bunnymom in reply to bunnymom]

Sorry I never responded to your question. I got my tens machine from Amazon and I use it when my shoulder acts up because of a bulging disk. It does work intermittently. They aren't recommend for people with a/f I believe so careful there.

[bunnymom in reply to PMRpro]

I think I get these in my ribcage and after a hot bath I press on them and they go away.

[artfingers in reply to PMRpro]

Fascinating read. I noticed since I have started working out again (lighter weights than I used to) that knots develop afterwards in the area worked out. Really annoying. My massage therapist works on trigger points and also the "knots" (adhesions really) and he stretches the fascia which helps. The knots are a new symptom of this wonderful disease I suspect. Just a pain! Thanks for the good read.

[Estellemac]

I thought mine may be Bursitis. Seeing the Dr on the 27th to rule this out. It’s common with PMR so they say.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Estellemac]

It is - very common!