Not exactly what I want to be reading 36 hours before my 3rd hip surgery! Oh well, the first two went great so hopefully number 3 will as well
@Risuena don’t get too down yet! You’re so early in the process, and you’re so smart to be doing your research now! And hey, you have the benefit of Laurie’s positive surgical outcomes, and the warning of x-halt’s negative surgical outcome (along with mine, too!) 
Even though my left hip that has been surgically reconstructed is a pile of burning garbage, the full thickness delaminating tear on the right has been beautifully managed with PRP. If your surgeon doesn’t do PRP (or stem cell, if you’re interested in that) no surprise–they all want to cut and are usually down on alternatives–no worry. You just go find someone who does the biologics. They are usually NOT surgeons. They’re usually sports medicine pain specialists. Find the most brilliant one in your area and go have a conversation. (Brilliance is important, and technique matters. This is fairly bleeding edge science, so you want someone who is keeping up on the latest research.)
Regarding dry needling, yes! Have used it, love it. Other things that I’ve personally found helpful are trigger point release and a really good sports massage guy. There is certainly a LARGE muscular component to hip pain, and even if you can’t fix the cause of the pain in the joint, addressing all of the weird muscular imbalances and issues that pop up because of that joint pain is vital. I see my massage guy every other week and he is really important to keeping me going.
Laurie, fingers crossed that this is your LAST trip to the OR!
x-halt, still no word from the hot shit doc. I’m still impatient :lol: :lol:
So far this has been the easiest of the 3 hip surgeries but they had to do the least so that makes sense. The repairs that they made in 2014 were still in perfect shape but there was a new tear so that is obviously what I did last summer when I injured it moving the lawn. Hopefully this gets me back to where I was before. Thanks for the well wishes!
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Well add me to the club. A few days ago i started having hip pain and made an appointment with my dr. He thinks it’s osteoarthritis in my hip and ordered xrays. Just waiting for the results. It hurts to walk and the pain is in my outer hip, outer thigh, across my buttocks and around my groin.
Great news, Laurie! Hope you are back to 100% soon, and this is the end of your problems.
A little ouchy today but I think that is because we had no power yesterday so I couldn’t ice it. Getting better now.
@Laurierace , glad to hear everything is going ok so far this time around. Fingers crossed that you have power back and are able to use more ice … and that this latest tear is the the last thing you need fixed to be back to 100%.
@spotted draft x filly , has the pain been increasing over time, or was it sudden onset? I’ve learned the hard way that diagnosing hip osteoarthritis from imaging can be a but of a craps shoot… I’m hoping that whatever is causing your pain is something with more treatment options than osteoarthritis…
Yes we got lucky and only lost power for a matter of hours, lots of people still don’t have it back yet. I start PT tomorrow.
That’s great! Good luck with the PT!
Whoa, okay. Spoke with NYC dude. He would like me to see a guy in Dallas who specializes in posterior hip pain. I wonder just how “not covered by insurance” something like this is going to be :eek: :eek:
What! :eek:
Did he give you any ideas about what this Dallas doc might be able to add in terms of treatment options for your specific situation? That’s a long way to go for a referral!
Right?!
This guy specializes in posterior hip pain, which is how mine has always presented, and is an “unusual” presentation of hip pain. (I dunno how unusual it really is–Laurie’s is there, too, I think, and I’ve sure heard of of other people presenting that way. Maybe atypical is a better word?) One of the things he is apparently known for and screens for is something the NYC doc called “gluteal pain syndrome” which google helpfully provides this nifty article all about.
I dunno! Weird, huh? I guess this guy takes quite some time to get in and see, so it’s not like I’m getting on a plane tomorrow, but if he has answers, I’m willing to make the trip. All of those different ways listed in that article that your butt can hurt sure are interesting :-/
Hahaha. I’m sitting here in an office chair really struggling to focus because my ass is killing me (so-called piriformis syndrome, which has been a problem since my hip scope). So I guess I didn’t realize posterior pain was so unusual!
Does the hot shit NYC doc think you might have one of those atypical sciatic nerve configurations in that article? It would be great if they were to discover a source of pain that is responsive to non-surgical treatment!
Ugh. I feel your pain 
Nothing is comfortable. Does your pain also just feel DEEP? I can’t access it at all. Sure, I can roll a lacross ball on all my butt muscles, and my massage guy works on everything, but there is NO poking whatever hurts so bad. It’s like it’s inside or behind the iliac crest and there is no getting to it ever.
Does the hot shit NYC doc think you might have one of those atypical sciatic nerve configurations in that article? It would be great if they were to discover a source of pain that is responsive to non-surgical treatment!
I’m not sure what he thinks other than “posterior pain = referral to Dallas” :lol: :lol: I would think that some of those things the article talks about would be viewable in the MRI, but who the hell knows, right? So much of this research seems so new. But I am pretty entertained with the idea of butt botox.
My pain before my first hip surgeries was in my SI so sort of butt but more back. Post op I had some piraformus issues so had them injected a few times. Highly recommend giving that a try. Interestingly enough, this time my pain was more in my hip flexor. I have less hip flexor pain now with three holes in my thigh than I did before surgery. So odd
Yeah, I’ve had piraformus injections with no result. This gluteal pain syndrome thing includes piraformus syndrome but also a bunch of other dysfunctions. Very interesting reading.
Laurie, I’m glad you’re doing so much better!
I wonder if riders are more prone to posterior pain either due to the way we tear or comorbid gluteal stuff or even having more strength in muscles than “normal” and that impacts how we do in traction.
Deep indeed. Mine is closer to my midline than I think of the iliac crest as being, but definitely untouchably deep. It flares up sometimes and then subsides a little for a few days, and I can’t figure out what is causing the flares. I can really only sleep on my stomach or the weird butt pain wakes me up, and my office chair has become a torture device. Sigh.
:lol: Once again, I am thinking what you are thinking – reading that I zeroed right in on the treatment protocols and was simultaneously amused and hopeful about that option. Flying to Dallas for butt botox sounds hilariously “desperate housewives”!
x-halt, that sounds  figured it was worth a shot to try–and that has helped. I found the deal on slickdeals.net!
I’m also trying Back on Track boxers. They just arrived last night, so we’ll see how it goes.
Looking at this picture, my pain is mainly between the sacroiliac ligaments and the iliolumbar ligament, but just tucked under the very edge of the iliac crest there. It’s been right there since before surgery, but does block out with a hip block. Since surgery, I also get a straight horizontal line of pain about a hands width under the top edge of the iliac crest. And then some standard pinching and irritation at the groin but pshhh if that were there only problem, I could totally live with it :lol:
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I’m also trying Back on Track boxers. They just arrived last night, so we’ll see how it goes.
Looking at this picture, my pain is mainly between the sacroiliac ligaments and the iliolumbar ligament, but just tucked under the very edge of the iliac crest there. It’s been right there since before surgery, but does block out with a hip block. Since surgery, I also get a straight horizontal line of pain about a hands width under the top edge of the iliac crest. And then some standard pinching and irritation at the groin but pshhh if that were there only problem, I could totally live with it :lol:
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Aaaah! That SI/IL area is exactly where I’m getting pain too. Damn. Is it a riding-specific muscle thing? Could it be related to traction like you previously wondered? Now I’m way more curious about it instead of trying to put it out of my mind like I’ve been doing for the last 2+ years!
Right now I definitely need a new mattress. Mine was once firm, but is now old and now has a few saggy spots. I keep telling myself I’ll get rid of it when I next move, and now it looks like that will be happening sometime in the next 2 to 10 months… But a memory foam mattress topper is something I can track down in the meantime.
I’ll be really curious what you find out in Dallas if you go!
My pain started with a dull pain on my outer hip then got more intense. Xrays came back unremarkable and the prednisone isn’t helping. I have to contact my dr and see what he wants to do next since the radiologist suggested a mri
