pain in hips & groin area

Hi i am a 44 yr old female,i have had ongoing problems with my hips and managed the pain myself (bursitis).But for about nearly 2 mnths now i have chronic groin pain and its impairing my ability to move around slow walking really slow.pain when lying on my left side and trying to turn over from my left to the right.Its agony to open my leg outwards or cross my left leg over the right leg,if i like bash me knee or someone leans against my knee i get a sharp shooting pain in my groin.I am on co codamol and taking anti inflammatory meds been taking them for over a week now but no change at all the pain is just the same.Dont know if anyone else has suffered this pain in the groin area if so what was your out come,i have had xrays done get the result from them next week.

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Thanks for your reply,nyrthesame98.I think the same wear and tear of the joint area,do you know any other treatment to try and help with the pain like ice packs or anything that would help,the meds are not helping much and the other day my left leg gave way and i fell i got a fright glad i happened in the house though.Glad my family are grown up now dont think i could manage just now if they were little.Just need to be patient and what will be will be.

I can share only my personal experience, and I do so because it sounds exactly like what I experienced.

My left hip, it was more comfortable with my legs apart, if the left leg was out to the side. If I bent the knee and someone put pressure on the inside of my knee, as if to push my thigh down, I would scream in agony, feeling like my hip would break.

I dealt with this for a few years and got progressively worse. I was eventually diagnosed with arthritis. It continued to get so severe, I saw a surgeon who took XRays and told me (at that time) I needed an immediate hip replacement.

I was afraid, but I was more afraid of living with the pain. I couldn't walk, forget the stairs, sex was painful.... I ended up getting my left hip replaced. (For me, again, that was what the doctor recommended, and showed me the XRays, and explained WHY to me, and also explained what to expect if I chose not to).

He later told me that when he was in there, it was worse than the XRay revealed, I had a number of bone spurs and cysts that needed to be removed.

That's my story of my left hip/groin pain and to this day, I think it was the beginning of changing my entire life. It is now the strongest part of my body and I've never been as pain free in that area, ever! It was an exceptional experience. I'm so happy I elected to pursue what was wrong and not try to just suck it up and deal with the growing hip and groin pain.

It would not hurt to see more than one doctor and get multiple opinions. Perhaps injections and PT are all that is required. Perhaps anti-inflammatory meds or oral steroids are an option.

Lots of possibilities.


Merrida

Xrays might come back show nothing wrong. You might need an MRI. Sounds like a labral tear or arthritis. (I have tears).

If it's torn, you can get a hip scope that will fix the tear and probably get rid of the pain. If the arthritis is mild, they can treat that with a scope too. More moderate arthritis usually means a hip resurface or replacement. Since you're 44, a resurface would be my choice, but resurface results are better for men due to larger sockets.

In the mean time you can get a cortisone injection into the hip socket via xray guidance. This will take away the pain, but usually will accelerate arthritis although this is open to controversy as to how many injection can take place before the risk of acceleration.

Well got the results from the xrays and nothing,still in pain though grrrrrrr.To go on the 9th of october for the cortisone injection see if that helps.Think its gonna be a long hall now.But at least its not life threatening and what will be will be.xxx

Hello
long time since the OP first posted, but I stumbled across this thread whilst looking for some help.
How is the OP doing, hope you got some help with your pain & problem hip.
six months ago I hurts my hip whilst digging (stamped on the spade to dig & under the ground was a large rock, I felt pain shoot up my leg to my hip)
anyway had mild contsant pain in my hip ever since.... have seen several doctors but have been unhelpful in getting rid of my pain.
My pain is like the OP`s
In the sitting position if I cross my right leg over my left knee, it really hurts deep down in my groin (RHS)
and also when laying on my back with both my legs pulled up a little with both feet flat on the floor if I let my legs flop open my left leg is fine but my right inner groin area really hurts as my knee flops outward.
I have general weakness in my right hip & my right foots toes, & foot turns out slightly whereas my left foot is perfectly straight forward.
I take 400mg ibuprofen morning & evening & a hot water bottle help, but this is just masking my problem.

just wish I knew what was wrong with my hip.................. any ideas ???

Hope the original poster is feeling better

Thanks from the UK

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