Seventy-year-old guy here. Two evenings ago, while doing a light (125 lb.) squat warmup set, I had a sudden severe pain in my left glute. I barely got the bar back to the hooks, and soon my whole left leg was hurting as well, along with a pins-and-needles sensation in the foot. I couldn’t stand up straight due to the pain, and could walk only by bending way over. I spent a sleepless night (ibuprofen didn’t help a bit), called Teladoc in the morning, and got started on naproxen (500 mg) and prednisone (20 mg), both twice a day. Based on reading, it sounds like this might be piriformis syndrome, though the doc only mentioned sciatica.
The pain is much better now - with the meds, of course. My left foot still feels kind of numb, and it’s hard to straighten my left leg if there’s any weight on it. I can walk around the house upright, with just a slight limp, but only if I brace and concentrate. Surprisingly, in light of how this thing started, an air squat is totally comfortable; of course I’m not doing them in sets!
Normally I do strength training almost every day, either big-4 lifts or isolation stuff, and most days I do either a walk/run or a bike ride as well. Obviously it’ll be a while before I’m back to any of that, let alone all of it! Any suggestions on when and how to get started? (Hip rehab template, maybe?) I usually take a zealous, no-concessions-to-age approach, but I’m sure I’ll have to moderate that!