My ass hurts

DirtyDirtyVagrant

I get severe muscle tension in my butt. Not like rectally, I mean the muscles above my legs. It seems to depend on how I sit or sleep or whatever, but once it's there it's there to stay. The pain is bad enough that it causes me to limp severely.

The reasons I'm posting about it are multifold.

I can't help but feel like this, along with other semi-sudden changes, are related in some way either to my current diet, which is repulsive, or to my recent massive weight loss. It may be important to mention that this happens nowhere else on my body except for my butt muscles. So is that at all likely? Are there stretches I can do?

There is something else. For a long while I had a very minor numbness at the front of my left thigh, right over the top of my quad I guess. In the last few months it's disappeared, and it's been replaced by a similar sensation in my right foot.

Since I've been overweight, numbness in my feet scares the piss out of me, but it does not appear to be a circulatory issue at all. It only occurs when I stand or walk for more than 30 minutes or so (Put pressure on my back), and even then it's really only annoying.

Should I see a doctor? A chiropractor? Am I making sense at all?

BetelguesePDX

See a doctor. This sounds like a neuropathy, which comes in many different flavors and the treatment of each is different. I wouldn't call this an emergency but definitely try to see someone in the next couple of weeks.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

I am basically trying to figure out whether this is a symptom of some back misalignment or whether it's a symptom of the diabetes I may or may not have. I don't know whether I do or not, but it seems unlikely.

That said, I match one of the neuropathy symptoms at best, and even then barely, because the numbness is spread over all or most of the extremities and includes pain as well as desensitization. ...(sp)

On a completely unrelated note, so I can avoid making new threads, where can I print and bind large volumes for cheap? Specifically I would like to print and bind the Andrew Loomis PDFs I have, 2-3 books worth. Probably 200-600 pages, black and white.

Kinko's wants like $90, and I'm tempted to tell them to suck it. I could buy the actual books for that price.

stawk

Doctor... see one....

GungHo

It could be diabeetus. It could be a lot of things. Hell, it could just be bad shoes, a bad bed, or a bad office chair. Go see your doc first to check out the usual suspects. Get some Dr. Scholls inserts. If you have an old bed, maybe consider replacing it. See if your office can let you try a more ergo chair. There's a lot of things you can try, especially for a symptom that can result from so many things.

Belruel

my dad is a chiropractor, so of course my first suggestion is to go see a chiropractor, it could be a pinched nerve.

but then, it could be a whooole lotta things, make sure you go see a doctor soon

Trillian

If you can't feel parts of yourself go see a doctor.

Shade

Belruel wrote: »

my dad is a chiropractor, so of course my first suggestion is to go see a chiropractor, it could be a pinched nerve.

but then, it could be a whooole lotta things, make sure you go see a doctor soon

I second doctor/chiropractor. I hurt my back and my ass hurt like a bitch.

Dark Moon

Doctor first. They can diagnose or rule out the more serious possible causes. A chiropractor cannot do this and so should be a secondary stop if you go at all. Just a sore butt alone sounds like it might be compensating for weak hamstrings compounded by some lower back issues, but the numbness issues should be brought up with a doctor regardless.

Trillian

Numbness and pain of that sort are pretty characteristic of diabetic neuropathy, an issue that nobody but yourself and a doctor can even begin to tackle.

Just how overweight are you?

BetelguesePDX

Agree with Trillian though diabetic neuropathy usually develops many years (10, sometimes 20 or even longer) after the onset of diabetes. Unless you have been diabetic many years I would say that is unlikely. Regardless, a visit to the doctor is a good idea still. If I had to guess I would say this sounds musculoskeletal in origin, likely relating to your back and the bones, discs, joints, tendons, ligaments and/or muscles thereof.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

To answer the question of how overweight I was:

Only minorly, but for most of my life. That is, until around high school. Isolation and depression and all those things kind of contributed to me ballooning to double what I should have been.

When I was 18 I was maybe 6'2 and 350 lbs. At 21 I was pushing 400.

My 23rd birthday is 6 months away and I weigh 285 or so now, and I'm working to lighten it ever more. I've come away clean from a lot of big risks, I know, having evaded serious heart conditions and so forth. But It has never been mentioned that I might have diabetes. I suppose I should have it checked out, but it seems unlikely.

A few months back I went something like 5 days without eating. If I had diabetes, wouldnt I have died or something?

mts

being that large its a good shot you have diabetes. not type I, type 2. if not full blown diabetic, you are most likely insulin resistant/prediabetic at the very least.

going 5 days without food would not really affect you if you were type 2.

i doubt its neuropathy. its probably load based or circulatory. numbness comes from lack of blood flow, and being large, you are putting a lot of stress on your legs/feet

Beck

DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote: »

To answer the question of how overweight I was:

Only minorly, but for most of my life. That is, until around high school. Isolation and depression and all those things kind of contributed to me ballooning to double what I should have been.

When I was 18 I was maybe 6'2 and 350 lbs. At 21 I was pushing 400.

My 23rd birthday is 6 months away and I weigh 285 or so now, and I'm working to lighten it ever more. I've come away clean from a lot of big risks, I know, having evaded serious heart conditions and so forth. But It has never been mentioned that I might have diabetes. I suppose I should have it checked out, but it seems unlikely.

A few months back I went something like 5 days without eating. If I had diabetes, wouldnt I have died or something?

I just want to congratulate you on your weight loss, dude. But um, are you doing it safely? On the visit, you might want to speak to your doctor about meeting with a nutritionist, they can help you create a diet that allows for potato chips (and other snacks) from time to time, but also results in massive (and healthy!) weight loss.

But pain in your butt, that's something I would see the doctor for. But it could be nothing, or temporary (and he could perscribe pain killers), or it could be something you'll need to visit a massage therapist over, either way I wouldn't sweat it too much. Stress, too, could be the entire cause of the problem. I have one question, it seems like somewhat of a no-brainer, but do you spend a lot of time seated, and is your chair comfortable? That could be the entire cause of the problem right there.

So yeah, hit up the doc, keep us posted?