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Laura
USA
655 Posts |
 Posted - 09/13/2007 : 16:40:21
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Has anyone had any experience with deep, radiating pain in the hip (one side) when they lie down at night to sleep? I cannot for the life of me sleep on my right side, as the pain is a burning, deep, radiating pain in my right hip area. I saw the doctor today for something totally unrelated and then I mentioned it to him. He said something about people who exercise a lot like me getting "bursitis" in different joints. Anyway, he took some x-rays (Not MRI, so don't know how he can tell exactly) and wrote me out a nice little prescription for Naproxen. Typical doctors. Send you with some drugs and your on your way.
I thought I remembered something in Louise Hay's books about the hips representing going forward in life. Also, a very spiritual friend of mine always told me the hips represented moving forward in life and that when they were in pain or you experienced a problem in your hips it had something to do with fear of moving through something in your life.
If anyone has had any hip problems simiilar to this please post and tell me about it. This has been going on for me for about 6-8 months now.
Laura |
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mamaboulet
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Posted - 09/13/2007 : 20:17:05
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| I had nasty throbbing pain in my hips for a couple of years. I thought it was arthritis. It wasn't. It went away. Now, when my hips start feeling a little sore, I can tell that it is the muscles going around the hip that are the source of pain. |
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Laura
USA
655 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 21:35:44
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| Well, that's good news. I'm starting to feel like maybe I need hip replacement or something (someone actually told me this - although I won't say who). The doctor says I'm exercising too much but that's b.s. because last summer I weighed 20 pounds less and was exercising for about two hours per day. Now, I'm lucky if I put in a half hour every other day (if that). I seem to be too busy many days to fit exercise in, or my back is bothering me and it hurts to exercise so I don't. In any event, I don't think Naproxen is the answer. |
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mamaboulet
181 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 05:46:01
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Try this: Lie on your back and grab a handful of skin and muscle at your hip. Squeeze the handful. Does it hurt? Mine does, because my thigh muscles that go up around the hip have been hurting for years. The sharp throbbing pain that I thought was coming from bone deep, and thus MUST be arthritis (or heck, how about bone cancer as long as we are being paranoid?)just went away after a couple of years. I thought I was headed for a downward spiral of pain and loss of ROM, but it just STOPPED. Maybe if I had had insurance at the time I could have had an xray to see if there was any sign of arthritis.
WHO has recommended hip replacement and why? Have your hips been xrayed for arthritis (I don't buy hip abnormality. My hips are practically double jointed and they are fine). I ask because when I had my knee surgery for torn cartilage, the doctor told me that my xray was perfect. My knee is as good as an 18 year old knee. That's the knee I had decided was ruined for life and HAD to have arthritis.
An interesting side note. My older sister is half crippled with pain in both her hips. It started a couple of years before my pain. I don't think she has EVER gone in for an xray. She simply ASSUMED it was arthritis and it would get worse. Well, it did. She has to use walking sticks to walk, and she can barely do stairs and getting in and out of cars. What if there is NOTHING wrong with her hips? Wouldn't that be something? Guess what else she suffers from/has suffered from? Migraines and plantar fasciitis (I've had that crap twice and I'm refusing to even believe in it anymore).
So I guess I'm saying don't think the worst. Think the positive outcome and get your hips thoroughly checked. Hip replacement is truly a last ditch thing that shouldn't even be on the table until everything else has been thoroughly considered. |
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mamaboulet
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Posted - 09/14/2007 : 05:47:03
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| I just checked back to your original post. You don't say what the doctor found on your xrays. |
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swmr1
USA
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Posted - 09/14/2007 : 06:20:45
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Hi Laura--
Has anyone used the terms "pyriformis syndrome" or "SI Joint instability"? I have dealt with both for 10 years. I also exercise a lot. The pain has affected both hips at times but usually picks one side. I've also experienced sciatica related to the hip pain.
No doctors could ever find anything major enough to be causing me that many problems (though one did say I had a "bulging" disk). The various PT's I went to told me different things (rest, keep working out, etc). I finally started seeing that my pain seemed related to my stress level. That's when I found Sarno's books online and I've only had minor annoyances since. The fear that I had injured something and would never be able to really exercise again was one thing that really contributed to my pain. Once I let that go and started ignoring it, it has been so much more manageable. |
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Baseball65
USA
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Posted - 09/14/2007 : 11:59:46
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Laura... you know TMS is regional.
The hip is just too darn close to the butt NOT to be part of the TMS repertoire.
Back during my days before Sarno, when I was in the 'last epic battle' against being a cripple, I told the doctors about the 'new' pain that tacked itself on to my sciatica...Hip pain. I was certain it was a new development (in truth, it was!) but they shrugged it off as being just part of my overall 'disc' problem.
It went away with my first TMS recovery . I do remember it burning all night long, though my other choice was to roll over on the sciatica...I had 'burning' or 'broken glass' to choose from (Nice, huh?)
BTW... when my most recent mini-episode started, it was in my hip. It was excruciating and I could barely move it...so I walked a mile and back down the street saying "Bullsh%t, Bullsh%t" over and over. I also unloaded a stream of truth on the Mrs. I do NOT believe in leg or hip pain, so it went away that night and moved into my shoulder, where I only recently have defeated it using the same old tools as always...Sarno-ism.
Come on Laura... you're an old vet. You let that go for 8 months without addressing it???
You know you can get rid of that if you want to....
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. |
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art
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Posted - 09/14/2007 : 12:29:55
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My approach is similar to Baseball's...totally counterphobic...Knee hurts?...Go for a run to a 1-2 cadence of screw-you, screw-you, screw-you....
Hip pain? Same deal..
Pain? Use it. Fear? Forget it.
I've yet to regret this..
Laura, with all the crappola you've got going on it would be amazing if your hip didn't hurt...
TMS all the way//// |
Edited by - art on 09/14/2007 12:31:14 |
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armchairlinguist
USA
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Posted - 09/14/2007 : 12:55:06
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I would bet TMS given what you are looking at life-wise at the moment, and how suddenly it came on. How could you hurt a hip that much that suddenly, with no obvious trauma? Is your back hurting anymore? (Symptom imperative!) And any doctor who thinks exercising 30 min every other day is too much is just seriously out of ideas about what could be going on, since that's the recommended minimum -- again, TMS indicator.
If the pain is TMS and is muscular, and you are having trouble concentrating/functioning because the pain is too severe, you could try using trigger point methods to reduce it. With pain in the hip area it can be hard to tell which points are involved so you might need to actually go check out the book (The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Clare Davies). Borders usually has a few copies. I think a lot of TMS pain is caused by this mechanism.
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mala
Hong Kong
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Posted - 09/16/2007 : 19:06:31
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Hi Laura,
Hope you are doing well. I just read yr post and thought I'd let you know that I had a similar problem with my hip in June this year. My left side would hurt when I walked too much and would throb during the night. It was very uncomfortable and I would fall asleep and then wake up because of the pain.
I posted here and was able to 'journal' about things that were happening at that time and got a lot of support from other members of the forum. But the thing that really helps me always is to absoloutely ignore the pain so I took anti inflammatories for about 5 days and got even more active. Lo and behold after about a week the pain lessened and within 2 weeks it was gone. I too heard the words 'bursitis', 'tendonitis' but refused to pay any attention whatsoever. In fact when the pain would wake me up at night , I would mumble 'go away' and go back to sleep again.
TMS can affect any part of the body but the treatment is always the same. Think psychologically and ignore the pain. Treat the pain with the disdain it deserves and don't pamper it.
Take care.
Mala
Good Luck & Good Health
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Michele
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Posted - 09/18/2007 : 10:36:39
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Not to be a wet blanket, but in all my TMS work, I got rid of every pain except my left hip pain. It just NEVER would go away. I even ran a couple half marathons through the pain, then couldn't walk for days. In February an xray showed pain was from bones against bones, precipitated by a birth defect (who knew?). I opted for a hip replacement on May 25, 2007. Because of blood thinners, blood/fluid leaked into the hip cavity. I'm going on 4 months, still on a cane, and still in pain. I continue to do my exercises, do water therapy, and pray that one day this nightmare will be over.
I hope you get over your hip pain soon -- I know what it feels like!! |
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miehnesor
USA
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Posted - 09/18/2007 : 21:59:33
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Originally posted by Michele
Not to be a wet blanket, but in all my TMS work, I got rid of every pain except my left hip pain. It just NEVER would go away. I even ran a couple half marathons through the pain, then couldn't walk for days. In February an xray showed pain was from bones against bones, precipitated by a birth defect (who knew?). I opted for a hip replacement on May 25, 2007. Because of blood thinners, blood/fluid leaked into the hip cavity. I'm going on 4 months, still on a cane, and still in pain. I continue to do my exercises, do water therapy, and pray that one day this nightmare will be over.
I hope you get over your hip pain soon -- I know what it feels like!!
I'm not a doctor but this does seem strange. Why would fluid leaking into the hip cavity not dissipate over the course of 4 months. Did you get an explanation for this. Maybe one of the doctors here can comment. |
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Laura
USA
655 Posts |
Posted - 09/19/2007 : 16:01:41
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Thanks everyone for your input. It really helps. I love this forum!
I haven't been on in a week or so. I've been extremely busy. I do believe this is just another TMS equivalent. And yes, there is a lot of "crap" going on so I guess it just stands to reason, right?
Anyway, as I weed through the "crap" and journal my thoughts, I will continue to walk through the pain and tell myself it's "b.s." I do believe, after all, that that's all it is. |
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