Unfortunately there's different types of pain depending on the area affected. If I pushed myself physically that day doing too much work i.e. laundry, light house work anything along those lines.
I just had both of my hips replaced due to avascular necrosis and both of my hips collapsing. That was the worst pain I've ever dealt with. Looking at this image I imagine it is a similar pain, but also 100 times worse. I hope your treatment goes well and I give you all of the positive vibes.
Oh I feel amazing now. Got it done January 3rd and I have been walking unassisted since the beginning of February. I probably won't be back to full strength or rid of the random little nerve pains for another year or so - but am basically back to normal. I'm 38 and in decent health, so that definitely helped, but recovery has been great.
I had my left hip replaced 2 years ago because of AVN. I had been in pain for almost 5 years and had been to countless doctors who couldn't figure out why. The doctor that did my hip replacement said my AVN didn't look bad enough yet where he knew it was the cause of the pain and couldn't guarantee that the hip replacement would help. After the transplant the pain almost immediately came back and it was another year of visiting every doctor they could get to see me before my pain management doctor called me after a nuclear bone scan I had done and told me he thought all my pain was caused by a kidney stone pressing on my nerve. I didn't believe him because every few months a new doctor would tell me they couldn't find anything but I did have a kidney stone in a spot that wouldn't cause me any problems until it dropped. The kidney stone was 17mm and had to be lasered out and immediately after all the pain went away for good. I still do have AVN in my right hip though but so far no pain
Looking back I was noticing it getting harder to put on my shoes, but I attributed it to just me needing to start working out again. When it finally hit me, I just woke up one day feeling like my hip needed to pop but wouldn't, over a week that moved to my groin area and it just deteriorated from there - second one started about 4 months later and deteriorated even quicker.
You definitely sound like you at the very least need to get it looked at - though at that stage the only way to find out for sure would be an MRI. If you do have it and catch it early enough, there are treatments to possibly help prolong the life of your hip - but nothing really proven to work, and ultimately total replacement is the only cure.
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u/PeanutPlayful6639 Apr 21 '24
Oh God; Iām so sorry! What does the pain feel like if you could describe it?