I’ve been searching the internet for some people who have dealt with the same issue and I’m glad to see someone who’s actually gone from a-z and recovered from surgery.
So my doctors have all diagnosed this previously as some level of osteoarthritis in the hip and until I saw sports med they told me it was either this hip flexor thing or FAI femoroacetabular impingement.
idk you’ve probably done it all but what I’m trying to get is to the end here now. In Canada with our socialized medicine, I have a year long wait now for my free MRI. I had one previously done this summer but I also waited a year for that one. I"ve been put on disability and every single doctor just laughs and shrugs his shoulders and tells me to be patient. If the solution is to scan and make sure it’s torn, to then directly get booked in for surgery after, then why can’t these doctors all tell me?
I’m kinda young, definitely not 20 anymore but being 29 I still have a bit of fight left in me, if you can go jogging again without much concern to your hip after surgery then I don’t see why people aren’t fighting to get me back to work here at this time. I’m really sick of being told to wait and noone actually giving me any information about my own god damn body lol. Mechanically it seems pretty simple to me. 2 sports med people say it’s a torn labrum with FAI but I have to wait over a year to confirm it lol.
I could make the money back for the surgery in a few years and still pay off my loans and live a life if I got this dealt with in a few months.
Sorry though that was just me venting I guess about this dumb situation and Canadian medicine practices. Everyone thinks it’s alright for some reason to just throw you on assistance without even attempting to fix the problem.
Anyways, my question is, is that really the only solution in the end? Because I’m pretty sure I’ve been ready for this surgery for 3-4 years but doctors seem to get unbelievably upset when a person diagnoses themselves with something like this. I’d like to get on with my life thank you very much.