#hip issues

[jekabeth]

When my hip joints start acting up...

Lkke when they hurt and feel like they might slip... I started using a back brace to wrap around my hips to hold them in place.

I haven't seen the right doctor for this issue yet, so I'm making lemonade out of lemons. It works wonders.

I don't know the brand of back brace. But it's black and its the kind that wraps and velcros together. And then has the extra strap to pull around and velcro again.

I stole it from my husbands tool bag. It's meant to support backs when you are heavy lifting (I assume).

Anyway, it works for me when I need to do stuff around the house and feel uneasy about my hip staying in place.

[popessoftrash]

so many places when i'm out and about have NO ramps and NO curb cuts so i'm forced to fuck up my hip which is BAD bc of my tendonitis dawg, shoutout to that one school i went to for a competition that made me walk all the way up and down two flights of stairs bc they did NOT have an elevator LMAOOO

[sweaterkittensahoy]

My hip's been hurting daily since we went to Seattle, and I think the combination of hip-stressing factors on that trip has pushed the fucker into the next level of dealing with it.

Before we went to Seattle, I was doing a little PT most days (5 days a week, usually) and it was keeping things in good shape. Pain days were way down, and Letty (my cane) was really only coming out on very damp days when my hip generally aches or I thought, "Huh, lots of leaves and mud everywhere; let's take Letty so I have less chance of slipping and fucking things up."

Since Seattle, I have been dealing with what I'm pretty sure is daily pain. I can't say with 100% certainty that it's daily, but I am definitely noticing it more days than not. Given my fucked up relationship to my body where pain is concerned, odds are better it's daily than it's not; there are just days my brain will close off from it because I spent fifteen years doing that with my endo, and there's not really an easy way to unlearn a protective instinct like that.

Anyway, a couple of days before Seattle, my hip was aching, so I was on Letty, and then Letty came with us to Seattle, and I used her the entire time. Which is good! That's the point of a mobility aid!

But Seattle is hilly as fuck. And steep as well. And Pike's Place Market is a fucking cool place but also a bunch of buildings all strung together with different floor levels and stairs and lots of things to dodge around.

And then we drove back for four hours.

And my hip's been extra-gimpy since. Even with the usual PT that was doing great things for me. Even with a couple extra exercises added to try and help it out. I can tell when my hip's sitting wrong now in a way I couldn't before.

I know the next steps: call doctor, get to sports medicine, likely get some sort of steroid injection and maybe have to get clown hammered for a new MRI. I'm going to try and get things moving on Monday, since I have to make some calls for a different health thing anyway. I know it's better to take care of it now than later, but I'm also annoyed that it all turned on me so fast after so many years of a fairly stable situation.

I knew my hip was gonna get worse as things went on. But to go from doing pretty great to definitely worse from a single weekend is a fucking pisser.

[vampierkisses]

My tummy and my hips hurt gonna kms

[for-neverandever]

My first attempt at starting over

My first attempt at starting over

There’s good and bad news in this short post: The good news is I found a mini team for the half I’m running in March! The bad news is that I forgot to listen to my own advice. I ran a very sad 2.5 miles yesterday. I struggled the whole way. I felt so defeated I completely neglected to stretch afterward and I seriously paid the price. My hips were KILLING me. I first noticed hip pains a couple of…

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[nvznn-blog]

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[lithium-world]

I think i’m having hip issues...........................Not issues that are like so in this year, issues with my actual hip, it hurts, i might need to see a chiropractor...

[nazyjayne]

I know I don't post here often, and it's usually because I'm in a magical place where I know people won't read what I write. So I wonder if I'm only talking to myself, and if that's healthy or not. This week has had its ups and downs, up with getting a new townhouse to live in, down with me getting bit while talking to a neighbor (I have about 20 bites on each ankle). I found the solution to an old problem, though! When I sit with my legs straight out in front of me, it looks like this | _. Basically, the left one is completely up and down while the right tilts off to the side. I've been wondering why I can't bend my left leg for ages, and found out, finally, that my hip joint is frozen. And then he looked up at me, my new dr, and said, "Make sure the surgeons match it to the right one. I'm serious." *cue freak out* So now, not only am I moving, stressed, and losing sleep, but have this to worry about? I know I've been praying for God to help with my bum hip for years, but it's still scary! Any advice?