Early Onset OA in my SI Joint

Hello,

I am brand new to this site. Five or six years ago, I was diagnosed with Early Inset Osteoarthritis in my right Sacro Iliac joint (at the beck of the pelvis. It is thought that it was brought on my me moving in an abnormal way due to a pelvic injury. I am more likely to suffer with OA due to the connective tissue disorder that I have - Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I have many more conditions, but I won't go in to them now! Of course, the SI joints are not really joints, in that they are not meant to move - they are simply where the back of the pelvis has fused. Being hypermobile, though, means I move where I shouldn't.

For the last few weeks, I have had a constant (apart for 2 days) pain in my right SI region. It is worse when I first get up after sitting or lying down. It feels like a knife slicing in to my bone, and it feels like my spinal cord is being stretched and about to snap or explode. I am used to a lot of pain, but this is easily a 7-8 out of ten, and really takes my breath away. It is excruciating! Sometimes, at rest (like now for example), it feels like red hot pins being stuck in to the site. Is this what OA feels like? I guess that there isn't much (if any) cartilage in the SI joint, so it's pretty much bone on bone, which would really hurt.


I don't know what meds to take or what to do to ease the pain. I am in the UK. Any ideas?

Thanks,
SKOLAH

When it comes to easing the pain, I would suggest you use painkillers only when the pain is unbearable. If the pain is bearable, you can still manage it with the use of a SI Belt Brace. Check out Braceability's and see if their SI belts will help with your SI joint pain.