Hip bursitis injection

How does anyone feel the day after one of these hip injections? I have felt achy all day and also I nearly came off the table when the neuro man injected the medicine yesterday. I've had 3 other hip injections and never felt much pain at all--none of them worked either. Maybe the pain today means this shot will work.

MRI shows issues but none that would cause pain to the touch on hip. Lumbar catscan in picture if this doesn't work for better view.

Hi SG,

I had one injection a little less than a year ago (hip bursitis) and it helped pretty quickly - sorry :-( I agree with the others. While I have had a few injections in other parts (hands mainly), I know my Drs would say 4 is too many. Anyway, not trying to be a downer but you might want to get a second opinion. As bitter as it sounds, some of these PMD's are just plain lazy and just go through the motions. I am convinced some of them are vying for "top billing MD of the year" (joke) at their hospitals...

What if shots do not work after 4 tries ? If not trochanteric bursitis, then what could could be causing tender pain to touch, chronic pain buttocks, walking and standing pain.

Back MRI shows moderate spinal stenosis, a couple of bulging disks,and anteriorolisthesis. Doc will order for lumbar cat scan for a better look. Maybe just a syndrome that I will have to live with.

Thanks.....

scorpio-girl when did you have that MRI of your lower back? and if it showed all that stuff, maybe that is what is causing your pain, it sounds allot like sciatic pain to me. If it is that, then you might be having problems with nerve root impingement. Anyway what kind of doctor are you seeing now? You know allot of times a neurosurgeon can see things on an MRI that allot of other physicians are not trained to catch. So maybe a referral to a specialist is in order? Or go for a second opinion!

Good Luck to you!

White Beard

SG,

I experience similar pain, but it seems to run from my SI joint around and into my groin, like a vice grip. The SI joint is tender to the touch, and yep, my butt hurts!

But, I've also got L1-L5 fusion/decompression/laminectomies and both my hips are total replacements.

So while that's a difference in our stories, the pain you're describing sounds so familiar.

One of the things that my PT did for the pain I was getting on the front of my upper thigh/hip,...which is where the hip flexor is, and that's a muscle that runs very deep and attaches to the lumbar spine,...well, he did a lot of soft tissue work on it because at least part of what was causing that pain came from that hip flexor being habitually contracted and tight.

It's something non-invasive you may want to check out. By the way, while it took a while (a few months of this poking around), and then subsequent exercises (which of course I continue to this day),...it's made vast improvements.





M.