I am a 65 year old retired construction electrician. In 2005 I began to get pain in my gluteus maximus that progressively got worse. At first, my doc said it was arthritis, but finally sent me to a specialist. Cut to the chase... I have spinal stenosis and had back surgery in 2015 to remove calcium deposits inside two vertebra in my lower back. That helped, but I now have more back pain than in my bum and it all is getting worse with time.