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.
Not all pain in the buttocks and legs is due to piriformis syndrome; diseases of the lumbar spine, such as a ruptured disc, and dysfunction of the sacroiliac joints are just a couple of the common causes of pain in this region. Stress fractures of the sacrum or pelvis can cause recalcitrant pain in this region.