Gluteus Maximus

[mayennaise]

Achey pain in left bum cheek ! Any suggestions pse - clean ones!!

[Mamyalynne]

Ibuprofen gel , but cheek only!!

[Sqad]

LOL......Gluteus maximus?..........that is very precise.

On the sparse information, I would agree with Mamya.

[Jackdaw33]

Well you would, wouldn't you Sqad. She said the magic word 'ibuprofen'.

[Sqad]

Jackdaw....yes....that is about the size of it.

[mayennaise]

I've been taking 800mg of ibuprofen every 4 hours - which helps, but is there anything else I can do - some sort of exercise, stretching perhaps ? It wasn't caused by any injury - just appeared out of the blue!

[Sqad]

mayennaise......that is a lot of Ibuprofen....too much......4,800 mgms a day?....are you sure that is correct?

So, how long have you been suffering from this and do you really mean the gluteus maximus........or the boney part of the lower spine and pelvis.
You don't sit on your gluteus maximus you know, you sit on your ischial tuberoslties (bone)

I can't see that exercise is going to do much good.

[mayennaise]

Sorry sqad - slip of the finger - s/b 400mg not 800mg! The achey pain is deep in my left buttock and when I clench the muscle it relieves the discomfort for a couple of seconds.

[Sqad]

....ah! that's better........i should have guessed that it was a slip of the pen.

Certainly confirms my initial feelings that it is a muscular problem and there is little more that you can do as it will take it's time to settle.