If it isnt showing up on scans I have a random diagnosis, my wife had foot pain for 10 years from being a dancer everyone kept saying planta facitis . Finally got a nerve conduction test done and she had the equivalent of R.S.I. In her foot required a nerve release operation.

She had tried it all and lost hope before the diagnosis, and all mri never showed a thing.

Yeah that’s correct. Not sure exactly what kind it was, but that’s right. I had a heck of a time trying to get it figured out. One doctor said it hurt too much to be my hip but even after it started feeling a bit better it still wasn’t right so I went to a different doctor who basically said that it was moronic that they didn’t think it was my labrum because I was in too much pain. They did the injection and it was immediately better. Unfortunately that lasted for like a few hours and it was back to normal.

I’m glad your wife finally got a proper diagnosis and treatment. I’ve had a nerve conduction study which came back negative..I’m really baffling the consultants!! In the end, a lot of the specialists have stated that it must be in my head..

Did you end up having surgery on your tear?
I haven’t felt any relief so far. If anything it aches even more than usual although the sharp catching pain has gone..

Yeah I had both hips done. So I’ll be upfront, there have been people that have had a horrible experience with the surgery and they’ll say not to do it. I’m around 100 percent convinced how the surgery goes is based primarily on the surgeon and what method they were trained on and where they were trained. The doctor who did my hips was trained by Philippon, and it is about 90 percent of what he does, literally day in and out it’s almost the only surgery he does. I would not do this with someone who is a general ortho surgeon who says they can do it. There are people on here who say they still don’t feel good.

My perspective is they have never felt better. The really bad one was my left hip and that was torn off the bone but not actually torn so every time I would move it, it would roll off the bone and pinch. So he fixed both and also rerounded both of the hip bones and that was it. The left hip I started biking a day after surgery and actually was allowed to 10 weeks after, which is super early he normally wont do before 12 but he also didn’t have a reason not to because I had full ROM. The right I was biking same day, then we were in the middle of COVID so I kinda winged it on coming back and haven’t had any problems. I had knee surgery oct 2019 then same hip redone maybe 2 weeks before they stopped voluntary surgeries.

I haven’t had any problems, it’s been great and I would have no problem telling someone to get it done, with the caveat don’t let anyone try this out on you.

Glad to hear you had success with both hips. Yes I’ve read the horror stories! :-(
If I don’t get any relief from this injection I don’t think my surgeon would consider any more surgery as he would assume the pain isn’t coming from the tear..then I’m back to square one! I don’t know how much more physio I can take haha

Other rarer causes of hip pain include entrapment of pudendal nerve, entrapment of superior/or/inferior cluneal nerve, piriformis syndrome, and issues with the multiple bursas that surround the hip (GT, illiopsoas, gluteal med) -but if you've had that injected that decreases probability.
Referred pain from SIJ, or lumbar facets can also trigger pain to medial groin.

A couple of my scans have stated that I have some mild glute med/trochanter tendinopathies bilaterally but each professional I’ve ever seen doesn’t think this would cause me that much pain. Plus I’m doing all the physio/strength stuff to target that just in case.
I have no lateral pain
Everything else’s comes back as ‘unremarkable’ including SIJS. Nerve conduction studies all negative.
I’m being to lose hope!

Your surgeon sounds like he’s using the same moron logic the first doctor I saw did. I was originally going to see the guy who did my surgery but he had a wait and I was able to see a different doctor. They said nearly the same thing. It shouldn’t hurt that bad, with all the medicine you’re on it doesn’t make sense that it would be a labral tear, other things are more likely based on other scans, blah, blah blah. They gave me prednisone and it actually helped out for a bit but it was never completely better and started to hurt more again.

I went back to the doctor who I was going to see originally and saw his PA. I told her what happened and she’s like are you kidding? That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard, we have people who are completely fine with no pain and people who can’t walk and are in excruciating pain. The pain level has nothing to do with if it’s actual due to the tear. That’s when they gave me one of the lidocaine or whatever Caines injections and said give this 10 minutes and I’ll be able to tell you if this is the problem. In both of those scenarios the injection and the prednisone it started hurting again. All those are doing is masking the underlying problem.

Well, a week later and the pain is worse than ever…it’s a never ending saga with my hips…I’m glad yours seem to work out all ok!

I'm really sorry. I hope it settles down. Maybe it just needs more time for the shot to work.

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I have had bilateral hip labral tears - both have been arthroscopically repaired with great success. Pain was always in the front/groin, constant, achy, worse with walking, running, biking, and breastroke swimming, one hip also had mechanical catch on hip external rotation. The diagnostic arthrogram ( with lidocaine) was a pretty good indicator that the pain was coming from the joint itself (pain recurred as soon as lidocaine wore off).

I have had a total of 6 steroid injections into my right shoulder (subacromial bursa) over the past 6 years for supraspinatus tendinopathy/impingement, onset is usually in a few days and pain relief lasts maybe a month or 2. Biggest risk is re-injuring things while pain free.... I have also had about 4 steroid injections into my L4-5 and L5-S1 facet joints for facet arthropathy over the past 3 years. These work great and overall now the relief lasts 7-8 months.

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