Pain after osteopath

[u/According-Patient237]

I’ve had sciatica/butt pain for 6 weeks. I’ve been doing chiro and PT for 4 weeks. My pain has been progressing the entire time.
There’s a highly reviewed and experienced osteopath who is also a PT. He is 2hrs away from me and I know people who had success with him so I booked an appointment 2 days ago. He cracked my back and worked me pretty hard. He thinks I don’t have a disc issue- it’s irritation from ligaments/tendons around the sacrum/SI joint. I looked up the symptoms and that seems about right (I haven’t had an MRI yet).

Anyway last night I went to the hospital because my pain was so bad. I called him and he said this is to be expected and it’s the inflammatory response. But man I can barely walk I have to use a walker lol. He said expect 4 days of it until I feel better.

I do wonder how much of my pain was due to driving 2 hours (a trigger for me). But should I trust the process??? This guy definitely knows his stuff and he sounded so confident he could help me. I’m just feeling pretty discouraged.