Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction, to go with my Temporomandibular Jaw Dysfunction to go with my…

Can one ever have enough dysfunction in their life? I guess not.

Here’s more on my most recently diagnosed dysfunction, Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction. Much like TMJ, SiJD apparently is another one of these mysterious dysfunctions that many doctors don’t or didn’t recognize for years, despite the obvious pain of their patients, and still can’t tell you exactly how you got it or can get it (or keep from getting it in the future).

My jaw still locks up a couple of times a year and I just relocate my mandible into place. But I think I need another person to help me relocate my sacroiliac to where it belongs. Hopefully, now that it is back where it’s supposed to be, it will stay there. I have to not sit for such long periods of time without moving.

With the onset of rheumatoid arthritis likely in the next few years (I already have a very, very slight dose of it), it looks like 2008 is going to be the year I finally get myself into Pilates and/or Yoga and some weight training, especially since osteoporosis won’t be long now either!

I love aging.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:40 pm January 28th, 2008 in Health Care, Women

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14 Responses to “Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction, to go with my Temporomandibular Jaw Dysfunction to go with my…”

1 Kathleen Anderson on January 28th, 2008 2:47 pm

My sacroiliac joint popped out last year - the doctor put me on Naprocin and it slid back in, but it took a week or so. I’ve since been told a faster way to get it to go back in is to see a chiropractor. I will try that next time - it certainly would be faster if it works.
2 Jill Miller Zimon on January 28th, 2008 3:00 pm

Thanks for sharing that, Kathleen. I had a suspicion that if I wrote about it, I’d learn that other folks have had it too. I appreciate it.

Do you recall what set it off for you? And isn’t it incredibly PAINFUL!? I still cannot get over that.

I’ve been on Celebrex and Skelaxin since Friday but I’m guessing, now that the joint is back in, they’ll help even more - I really haven’t noticed too much difference. The physical therapist I saw knew exactly what was going on and what to do and gave me some exercises. He assured me it’s just acute.

Still - when you can’t move, that can be kind of scary.
3 Loraine Ritchey on January 28th, 2008 3:08 pm

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction, Temporomandibular Jaw Dysfunction

Oh Jill I am sorry to hear that but I have to tell you when I first read your headline I thought it was to do with a “politician” and yet another campaign “oops”
Loraine
4 Jill Miller Zimon on January 28th, 2008 3:43 pm

Some politicians sure do act as though they have a plethora of dysfunctions!
5 Kathleen Anderson on January 28th, 2008 4:13 pm

It happened one morning when I got up to turn off the alarm clock. It felt like someone had stabbed me in the butt with a hot knife. It was so sharp and so sudden that my knees buckled and I almost went down on the floor.

I stayed home from work for a couple of days and then a couple of days after that I finally went to the doctor. I shouldn’t have waited so long - I’ll know better next time.

BTW, I am currently recovering from rotator cuff surgery - that’s a whole ‘nother unpleasant experience.
6 Jill Miller Zimon on January 28th, 2008 4:16 pm

Wow! That is very similar to how it felt to me - but I was just sitting down to make a phone call and the stab came - I nearly fell over the side of my chair - I thought it was just how I’d sat down but then I couldn’t really get up. What we don’t know can hurt us, huh?

Rotator cuff!? OMG. Stop typing!
7 Kathleen Anderson on January 28th, 2008 5:43 pm

Rotator cuff, bone spur, worn cartlidge and a cyst - all caused by arthritis according to the doctor.

I did “slack off” for about a week, but I have bills to pay
8 Carole Cohen on January 28th, 2008 8:16 pm

I had a hunch I would find out what SJD was by coming here! So it’s like popping your shoulder blade back in place…painful! I hope it did the trick; sounds like you have a lot of support here that is amazingly wonderful. I have to get serious about flexibility myself, it’s gone by the wayside; not good!
9 Anon on January 28th, 2008 11:32 pm

Jill, very sorry to hear that you’ve been in pain.

I love aging.

Hardly an original observation, but the one good thing that can be said about aging is that it beats the alternative.
10 Jill Miller Zimon on January 29th, 2008 10:45 am

Kathleen - you are making me nervous here. I’m not getting better as quickly as I’d like or thought I would and am concerned about the arthritis aspect. Oy. Okay - going to ignore that possibility and just be a good albeit crabby patient.
11 Kathleen Anderson on January 29th, 2008 11:06 am

Jill:
If my experience is any indication, you are not going to feel quite right for a couple of weeks. Even after I was through with the Naprocin, it was still sore. The doctor sent me for an xray to confirm that the joint was OK. I guess it’s a waiting game - it will eventually feel better.
12 Jill Miller Zimon on January 29th, 2008 11:16 am

You know, from what I’m hearing, I’m sure you are right. But again at least this is all it seems to be.
13 What it’s really like to be in bed all week | Writes Like She Talks on February 1st, 2008 5:31 pm

[…] Here’s the post where I talk about the the joint dysfunction the physical therapist said I had - that was Monday. Today is Friday. I was starting to feel like an 8.8 on a scale of 1-10 when it comes to pain (and that was down from a 9) yesterday, but then I had an MRI. The doctor and the PT haven’t been happy that I’m not progressing much at all and so there was concern that maybe I have a herniated disk or something else (arthritis or I don’t know what, in my hips, spine - I’m not even sure). Well, to have to lay on your back for 45 minutes in a too-small tube when it’s your back that’s in pain for starters just about did me in. I was so angry with pain when I got out of the machine that I left without literally half my clothes on. And now I have sore muscles I didn’t have before as a result of them spasming while I was in the MRI. And now I’m told that the MRI might not even be a valuable diagnostic tool because if you have spine issues, laying on your back doesn’t necessarily show the disks in the best way to detect problems. […]
14 brent on July 21st, 2008 1:53 pm

Hi..im Brent..i have been reading up on this SJD for some time now…reson is i was working one mornig in the winter (I was a delivery driver for a meat company) I had to shovel a path through the snow to get to the door well I have used a hand cart or (truck) for moving the product from the truck to store. Well i was pulling the cart through the snow and my right foot sliped out from under my (i was pulling cart backwards) and with my leg fully extended i landed on the curb, right on my right butt cheek and boom my SJ poped out and im telling you it was VERY very painful. i layed there for a few moments, then i tried to get up and I was balling…some kids across the street came over and helped me up.. that was in march and im still dealing with the pain today…a recent MRI showed that a Cyst has formed in between the joint, so now they have to drain it or go in and remove it….this SJD is the worst thing i have ever had go wrong with my body…im only 27 and there telling me it will be a problem for years …i just needed to type out my frustration…thanks for reading…

Brent