The best way to fight a cold is with plenty of rest and fluids, but doctors admit that medication can make the worst symptoms more bearable. But it's important to know that no drug will actually lessen the length or severity of your cold; it can only treat the symptoms.
If the pain in the buttocks is more noticeable when sitting it may be caused by tightness in the hamstring. Proximal hamstring tendonopathy and high hamstring tendonitis is defined as inflammation originating in the hamstring, causing pain in the lower buttocks, or pelvic bone region.
Femoral nerve damage causes severe pain in the buttock and upper anterior thigh and lower inner leg pain. Most folk have heard of sciatica, and the nerve which comes from the lower lumbar spine. It supplies the back of the thigh, side of the lower leg and much of the foot.