Horrible Pain On Both Sides Of Upper Legs While Sleeping

Is this familiar to anyone? While I'm sleeping on my side, I get intense pain on the upper leg/hip area...Right at the level of the buttocks, but on the outside of the leg. It wakes me up and forces me to turn over to the other side. Then withing a short period of time, I get the same pain in the same location, on that side which again wakes me up. I have to keep turning back and forth throughout the night. Sometimes it hurts on both sides and I try sleeping on my back, but the pain usually prevents me from falling back to sleep for long. The pain is so severe, and my sleep is so disrupted. Does anyone else suffer this type of pain at night?

drjimmy, long time no see. Sorry you are going thru this and has your doctor done any nerve testing to see what's going on and to pinpoint it better. Maybe it's time for some updated mri's as well, good luck and well wishes to you and I hope you get a low pain day soon.
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An MRI of the lumbar spine was gonna be my suggestion. I have the same issues with the pain going across my lower back into the hips. I've had fusion already & mine is caused from the facet joints now, pretty much plain old osteoarthritis is causing bone spurs to form. Let us know how all of your testing turns out.

One thing I would suggest is to get copies of all of the radiology reports to keep for yourself. In the future if you should have to file for SSDI or whatever it is nice to have these on hand.

Jimmy, I just noticed on your signature that you have nerve pain in several areas. Are you taking Neurontin or Lyrica for nerve pain?

If you have herniated disc at 2 levels of the lumbar spine which you state, I'm not surprised you are having pain in your hips.

Jag, I've tried neurontin & lyrica before. Lyrica didn't help and caused me to get dizzy. Neurontin didn't help either, but thanks. Lisa, hip bursitis, huh? sounds reasonable, I'll have to check with my doctor when I see him next time, thanks. Are you still having chronic pain? Jim, btw I noticed that you had torn meniscus. Did you have the knee operated on? How did it work for you? I've had many operations for knee problems that all started with torn meniscus.

Hi Jimmy, I also suffer from hip bursitis, are your hips hot to touch? Can you feel fluid or swelling around them? These are the tell tale signs of it. You're describing the exact location and symptoms of it, but with all your nerve pain and disc problems I'd say its more likely to be back related.

Goodluck with the MRI, hopefully it'll show up exactly what is happening for you. When do you have it?

Best wishes, golitho

Jimmy, for the most part my hip bursitis isn't an issue any longer. It took awhile but so much better than it was. I go to a chiropractor who specializes in treating/rehabbing orthopedic type problems like that. He does ultra-sound, active release technique, graston, interferential, etc. I wish I could clone him and give you all a copy. Besides the sleeping on it being painful, I also had pain in that hip area when walking. That sometimes is a slight problem but also much improved. I can go many minutes at a decent pace before I start to feel it with activity. With all your other issues I can see how it would be easy to assume that it was back related but I think maybe you should ask your doctor about the possibility of bursitis. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that it is since that should be way easier to manage than anything spine related. Take care and I hope you get some sleep tonight. Lisa

Jimmy I get bursitis in my left hip and when its really flaring I can hardly walk. I had it for a very long time and the drs ignored me and finally I raised such a ruckus I got their attention, voila came the bursitis dx. An injection of steroids usually will take care of it. I cannot tolerate steroids so we did some trigger point injections of toradol and I finally got some long waited relief. Now when the hip pain starts kicking up I take Mobic. It works fairly well and does not cause gi issues, something I surely don't need aggravated. Take care and let us know how you are doing.

 

   Dear Jim,

 

        Good afternoon. My name is Dani and it is a pleasure to meet you. Please excuse my tardiness in welcoming you (back?).

 

        I am sorry you have so much pain in your life. Very sorry to hear you are unable to sleep do to pain. I too, have that problem. I am usually exhausted so I do go right to sleep, but wake endlessly through the night.  My hips, shoulders and back ache with a sickening relentlessness at night. It seems there is very little to combat this problem save for meds and injections at this time in my case. Hopefully, you will be able to atttain better long term treatment solutions once your testing is completed.

 

       I wont chat endlessly, but it was very nice to meet you. I do look forwards to knowing you better as time goes by. Again, I am very sorry I didnt introduce myself sooner. I hope you can find some time to relax today.

 

*hugg*

  dani