Knock wood and so forth, but...

Something in my pelvis area released - I think my sacroiliac unlocked or something - and while I'm still having pain in my sciatic channel, it's changed in type. If I do certain things, I get a twinge, and it hurts... but usually just for a moment. And I'm feeling some achy muscles that never ached before, but they feel like good, honest, "you're using that muscle a lot" aches. I still have some pain when I wake up, but even though it's sometimes kind of bad, it's stopped being scary. That's hard to describe, but it's like, I now know it's not going to lead to an awful spasm, and keep hurting for a long time afterward.

It's been too slow and gradual to have a "Oh my god that feels so much better!" moment, so I'm defining one now :-).