Hip Pain

I'm 60, have a physical intensive job.have been talking TRT , 25 units every 3 days. almost 1 yr with huge improvements, so I decided to try the 157 & 500, 10 unit ea inj daily. I've been on it 1 month. I've felt huge improvements . I had hip surgery in 2015, with nonstop pain . Peptides have helped with this. I have other numerous joints, the doctor said eventually I'll need surgery. But I believe the peptides have change the direction of this diagnosis. I'm sure big pharma will find a way to stop this.

Fixed my hip pain .gone. my Dad had a hip replacement and i took a few shots of bpc157. So fq u if you are a big pharma fda schill. Fda only approves big pharma big money making drugs.

I will say I struggled with severe hip pain, crippling pain in my left foot and ruptured discs. After taking KLOW for 6 months, I was completely healed. My foot was healed in 7 days. And I had suffered for months. This man most likely works for Big Pharma or funded by the FDA.

Hey everyone, just wanted to share something that happened this week in case it helps anyone who has been dealing with flare ups. I had this really intense hip pain pop up out of nowhere. It felt so physical, like I could point to the exact spot and swear something had to be structurally wrong. It was the kind of pain that used to scare me in the past because it felt so convincing and so “mechanical.” But something I have learned on my own pain journey is that for me, these flares almost never end up being about tissue damage, especially when nothing specific caused them. Even when it feels structural, my patterns usually point back to tension, stress, or my nervous system being on high alert. It does not make the pain any less real, it just means the source is not always what it seems. This week was pretty stressful for me, and looking back, the timing makes sense. My brain loves to interpret stress as danger, and pain has always been my body’s favorite alarm system. Once I realized that, the fear around the sensation started dropping a bit. Today was my day off, and interestingly, the pain is almost gone. Earlier when I was walking, I noticed it trying to spike again. Instead of panicking, I reminded myself that for me, pain that comes and goes like that does not line up with a structural injury. I even did a tiny gentle jog, nothing intense, and kept reassuring myself that I was safe and nothing was actually broken. And now tonight I am basically pain free and not thinking about it at all. This is not the first time I have gone through this cycle, but every flare ends up being a strangely helpful reminder. My body can throw up these protection signals, but it does not mean I am stuck with them or that something is permanently wrong. For me, the pain is real, but the cause is not always physical damage, and remembering that keeps me from spiraling. Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone else is in the middle of a flare and feeling discouraged. You are not alone.

Hey everyone, I find there’s little to no information on people reporting their stem cell injection experience, so let me share my experience. I’m 19 yr old male that has been active for years, specifically with lifting heavy weights at a high level. It got to the point where my tissues couldn’t withstand the stress I was feeding it, where suddenly, during a light workout, I felt this painful cramping sensation around the groin. Initially, I thought it was a minor groin strain and tried to push through it even though my performance was starting to decline from that point on. Eventually, I got an X-ray/MRI, and the doc confirmed that I have an FAI impingement (prob in both hips) with a left hip labral tear. Now...this made sense given my symptoms (deep aching in the hip, groin discomfort, occasional clicking). It wasn’t too severe, and I knew damn well I didn’t want to go with surgery right away, so I opted for the conservative route. After trying to rehab (modifying loads/workload/movements) for months, my symptoms got slightly better, but I did not feel close to 100%. So I opted to find the next best option: stem cell injection. The procedure itself was not too uncomfortable. They took some blood, harvested my bone marrow, centrifuged them, and injected the stem cells/PRP back into my hip. After the injection, my left hip felt like it was on fire and swollen, but it was bearable, and I knew this was part of the inflammatory response that will trigger healing. Currently, I'm almost two weeks into my recovery, and my hip is still a bit achy/sensitive. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be gradually getting back into my activity and hoping my pain subsides. I will update periodically on my status, so stay tuned if interested. 4-Week Update: It's officially been 4 weeks since my stem cell treatment. I can say that the initial inflammation response has calmed down but it is still there. Like I mentioned previously, my activity is lifting weights. I have been able to keep pushing my upper body movements normally but my lower body movements are still very light. My hip still feels sensitive to higher loads, and I have not been able to return to my pre-treatment activity yet because of it. I'm hoping this is just part of the regenerative process and time will allow me to heal. I'm using my pain response to dictate my training and have been gradually increasing workloads these past few weeks on the movements described below. Here's how my current lower body routine looks for now: - Instead of back squats, I have switched to light tempo goblet box squats and split squats - Deadlifts have changed to tempo kettlebell deadlifts from an elevated surface, as well as single-leg kettlebell deadlifts - I have continued using the GHD to do tempo hip extensions and segmental back extensions - Light swimming about two times a week 8-Week Update: 8-weeks in, and I've been seeing constant improvements each week! The frequency and severity of my pain have reduced significantly. I would say I'm about 70% back to pre-treatment performance. I hope this next month will bring continued improvement to feel better than I did pretreatment, which is the goal! My workouts have been roughly the same (outlined in 4-Week update) but I've been able to add more weight to lower body stuff and more light cardio, like biking outside. 4-Month Update: Pain levels got slightly better in these 4 months but reverted to the same pain when I tried to return to my regular training. I think it’s safe to say the stem cells did nothing for me in the end. I just got the hip arthroscopy as my final resort. I’m 2 days out of my surgery, currently managing the pain and letting my body heal. Doc shaved down the cam/pincer and repaired the labrum. I will report back in a month on my recovery. 1-Month Post-Hip Arthroscopy: Ditched the crutches and finally able to walk without much pain, only some slight discomfort around hip flexors. Activity is still very limited. I can only do light biking and upper body exercises that involve absolutely no core activation (I.e. seated preacher curls). My surgeon said I have to keep this limit on my activity until the 3 month mark to ensure that I heal properly and protect the surgery. Patience is essential for this phase. My plan to try to maintain muscle mass: - Weekly PT sessions - Daily 20 min sauna - Light biking for at least 10 minutes/day - Light upper body lifts and isometrics - High protein diet (1.2g/lb of body weight) Please let me know if you have more clarifying questions.

TRIGGER WARNING: Suicidal Ideation Just a vent here. I’ve been lurking and finding a lot of help in the community. It’s especially sad how many of us are struggling with suicidal ideation. Naively, I know, but it’s just so sad. I am a dog mom of the sweetest tripawd in the world. My fiancé and I adopted him two weeks after his amputation. They didn’t send him home with any pain meds. He has been hands down the happiest pup ever since day one. About a year after, at a routine vet appt, I preemptively asked the vet about how to tell if he is in pain and what signs to look out for. I asked if we could prescribe something after big days at the lake or hiking, to keep him comfortable, ya know. Like a doggy ibuprofen. No problem, done and out the door. Well to keep a long story short, I am only 25 and have had chronic hip pain for the last 10 years. I had my left labral repair a few days after my 19th birthday. The surgery really improved my quality of life, but I could never really return to dancing because of how much it hurt on the right side. MRI after MRI over the years has repeatedly shown nothing 🙃 but the pain has been getting significantly worse over the last year and a half. I really went into 2024 planning on a surgery this year after finding the right specialists that diagnosed displaysia and high likelihood of a labral tear. (I cant afford the upfront cost of the MRI right now.) Well in January, I bought lift tickets for my fiancé as a Christmas gift and I broke my tailbone on the first real run. Since then, my MH and pain levels have fallen off the cliff. I have to use a cane to walk 100 yards. Yes the fracture is healed now, but I can’t sit for too long, or sleep on my back because of the pain. I can’t stand on my hip for too long or sleep on my right side. There is no relief from my pain. My primary care has consistently ignored my reports that 12 ibuprofen a day wasn’t cutting it anymore. She has watched my mental health decline over these last 6 months. It’s gotten so bad, I have had to go the mental health crisis center 2/3 times in the last month? I’ve lost track. I’ve had to take medical leave from work because I can not go on living in this body anymore. I have lived through a lot in these 25 years and I have never been this low. My last time there, a provider graciously prescribed a short term dose of 100mg gabapentin 2x day and 300mg at night. It has helped IMMENSELY. This was only after waiting for hours upon hours and having to beg to be given something, anything, explicitly stating, “I am not asking for an opiate” I just know there are other options. The anger really began to set in that it took this much, me literally saying that “I would rather die than go on living with this pain” to have someone take enough pitty on me to give be a small ration of relief. To get to the point, our dog had a grooming appointment today and I was brushing out some mats tonight when I noticed he was sore to the touch on a certain place near his scar. I was afraid the new groomer may have been a little rough on accident or something. I asked my fiancé if he thought it would be appropriate to give him a little something for the pain. He agreed. I get the box out and cheerfully explain, “oh look! 100mg of gabapentin! That’s what I take!” I truly believe my sweet brain was trying to protect itself. But my amazing fiancé who has seen me through this last 6 months said so matter of factly, “wow, so they will really just hand that out at the vet, but you had to get to the point where you had to go to the psych ward to get anyone to listen to you.” And damn. Did those words hit like a brick. I’m so so angry. I’ve never been this angry before. It is not lost on me that my dog IS MISSING A WHOLE ASS LEG. There is no doubting his pain, so it’s a little different I guess because I’m a woman. TLRD: my dog got prescribed the same med I had to advocate so much for.

Okay well, here i am trying it out! Today is my first day 03-03-26 Ive been suffering for over a year now with tendinitis in my left wrist, trigger finger in my right thumb, I had surgery on both elbows for tennis elbow, and I also have left hip pain! Pretty much a hot mess over here! I will update in a couple weeks.

Holy crap! You poor thing. Firstly, big hugs 🫂 do not feel guilty because you quit 2 days earlier than planned. Fuck em! I would definitely be putting a call in to the police about the assault you endured today! I hope you are ok? How is your hip doing now? He could've done some serious damage, what a moron!!

I took the oral form (I have gut issues) and I have frozen shoulder and frozen hip. I took 2 months worth and although it offered some initial boost, I didn’t find it was worth the money. I still had extreme pain. I found diet way more beneficial.

So. Today was a bad day. I (41F) suffer from near constant pain due to a myriad of illnesses. The major ones are: Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis. In 2016, I was approved for full disability. This passed December (2023), I recieved a letter informing me that I would no longer be approved for disability, citing "Medical Recovery". Physically, I had been feeling *MILDLY* better bc I finally got started with Pain Management and all of my meds were finally balanced and being properly mantained. With the cancellation of my Disability, my insurance was cancelled as well. January 2nd of this year (2024), I started working for McDonald's. I was hired as full time opener. (4am to 2 or 3pm/5 days a week.) My pain levels blew up almost immediately. As I had no insurance anymore, all of my medicine had run out. Compound this with a policy they had in place - no drinks behind the counter , when you want a drink, you have to go to the lobby, get a small cup, fill it up across the lobby, drink it there, throw it away and then come back behind the counter. This wouldn't be an issue if not for the fact that they kept me on drive thru headset every day - which leaves me at the mercy of my order point of service, which is nowhere near the lobby. They also said that we could no longer bring in outside food or drinks - even our own reusable cups. Within a month, I was almost hospitalized for exhaustion and dehydration. I had to have a painful potassium transfusion/infusion (I don't remember which term they used) bc my levels were critical before being released from the hospital with strict instructions from the doctor telling me I needed to rest for 2 days. I verbalized my new needs at work to management. It went unheard. By April, I had been almost hospitalized A SECOND TIME for exhaustion and dehydration. Cue another painful potassium transfusion. This time, I went back to work and demanded they only work me 4 days a week. Flat out told them that if they scheduled me for 5 days, they'd better be prepared to cover my shift once a week bc I wouldn't come in. Not only did this go unheard, I had two immediate days back to back where I worked from 4am to damn near dusk. Because of this job, I have racked up *thousands* in medical debt, gotten a repetitive stress injury in my right shoulder, mental health decline, feet issues and raging anxiety/insomnia, not to mention my elevated pain levels and a horrifically broken engagement ring. (Walk in cooler.) Also, some mild PTSD from having a shift manager die on shift about a month ago. Two weeks ago, I was laying in bed, desperately trying to go to sleep. I rolled over, felt something give in my right hip, heard a pop so loud that it scared me and felt instant burning pain like someone stuck a fire-red coal in my hip joint. I ended up going **BACK** to the ER. They did Xrays and told me I no longer have any cartilage left in my right hip joint - I'm now bone on bone and my pain levels are off the charts. I informed my job and continued working. Our new GM is a frat boy who never grew up. I #**try** to be a good person. A great example of why I cannot deal with him is a week or so ago, he was being insanely mean for no real reason so I asked him in a light tone, "You being mean again?" He told me, "All day, every day." I was like, "Honey, *who hurt you*?" He started going on in about how both his parents are drug addicts, etc. I told him that I'd happily "adopt" him so he could have someone to talk to and he responded with, "If I'm getting adopted, I'd much rather it be someone at least attractive." 😬 Like, I'm not trying to fuck. I'm trying to make sure you don't feel alone. What a douche. Anyways, his brother works with us and abuses drugs on the clock. Today, he started throwing food at me. I have been struggling with my pain levels in my hip today and had very little patience with him. Without warning, he basically body checked me into a counter, which the edge hit my right hip - exactly at my joint. It was either cry and punch him in the face **or** cry and quit. So I dropped my headset on the counter and quit on the spot. It's been 4 hours at this point and I'm still having shooting pains in my leg and I cannot feel my right foot. The only real silver lining in this is I got hired with a different company last week so I only quit 2 days earlier than agreed upon **BUT** I feel so guilty. Idk why I wrote all this. Maybe to just rant to people who understand. Maybe emotional support. 🤷 To anyone reading this, I hope your 2024 is going well and continues to do so. ❤❤ #Update: Hi everyone! There were more comments than I could answer individually so I figured I'd just update the post. I've been talking to my fiancee today (when I've actually been awake to do so, lol. I desperately needed a nap) and he's being extra supportive. He's seen the worst of what I've dealt with at work - there was a solid straight week where I'd come home and cry for awhile immediately after work bc I'd be so stressed. To answer some questions: Working McDonald's was expected to be super temporary - only to make ends meet until I could get my disability fixed. I chose McDonald's bc I live in a very small town so employment options are very limited, I knew I'd get hired quickly, I quit school at 18 bc my mother passed away and I had already lost my father at age 7, and due to my illnesses and meds I've been on, I have very obvious tooth loss/decay that I couldn't combat with any oral hygiene product on the market + bad food decisions growing up. I had a thing where I always bought big bags of lemons, peeled them like oranges and ate them. At any rate, my options are extremely limited at the moment. My fiancee has talked me into seeking charges to be filed so I guess we're going to see where this goes. They have every inch of that restaurant under video surveillance so I know they'll have gotten it on video, which helps a lot. At this point, I'm just glad to be out of there. They have inspection coming up **very** soon. I'm not a vengeful person but I hope they fail inspection. Thank you to all of y'all for for support and well wishes, they certainly made me feel better. ❤❤

Yeah, I'd buy that out of Ottawa Hospital. Five years ago, i got my hips replaced there. They were so disintegrated that at that time, I was on 30mg twice a day ER morphine, and six 5mg as needed quick release pills for breakthrough pain. Took me nearly two decades to get up to that, but that's what it was back then. I was told that my meds and dosages were part of my records, known and understood. I didn't need to bring anything from home because they would be covering my med needs during the few days I recouped in hospital. So the morning after the surgery, they brought me a single 5mg IR pill. I told them I didn't generally take those unless my actual dose wasn't really doing it. They said this was all I'd be getting. It's standard! Ok, but I've got meds I take that should be on my chart and was told not to bring anything and that everyone on the ward would know? We have no earthly clue what you're on about. If you're still in pain in five hours, you can have 2mg IV morphine. Cool. Only 27mg short of the dose I was repeatedly told I'd be given. But sure, Jan. Luckily im not fucking stupid and they've done this shit to me every time I've been hospitalized ever. So I brought my pills. I swear the nurses seemed confused and annoyed i wasn't freaking out. Meanwhile they bring in this little old lady who'd slipped on the sidewalk and smashed her knee. For two days I listened to her moan in pain and terror and beg for the only med that ever worked for her without giving her nausea and headache. Codeine. Just a tec-3. That's all she wanted. They offered her Percocet. Vicodin. Morphine. Oxy. She refused them all since they just made her vomit and feel sick. So they left her like that. Wrote that she refused meds and left her for DAYS waiting for surgery with broken bones, completely unmedicated. A pharmacy rep toured the ward and was just gosh darn so surprised I felt any sort of way about being obviously lied to, and being forced to watch a woman suffer. I told her if I was at all mobile, I'd have just gone down to the commercial pharmacy in the lobby and bought the lady a bottle of tec-1s since they dont even need a prescription, and that not for a fucking instant did i believe a major metropolitan hospital "didnt have" tec-3s. Someone somewhere decided to fuck that woman over, for their own reasons, and it was disgusting and immoral. Those people will give you that lecture even if you've got a broken bone hanging out. It's a power and control thing, disguised as a moral and judgement thing. But for most of us, the part where we learned to lean away from our experience of our pain happened within the first decade of having it. It's not new news, and it's only the answer if the pain was only in your head. And since the medical professionals dont give a fuck which one it actually is...

Hey everyone, I find there’s little to no information on people reporting their stem cell injection experience, so let me share my experience. I’m 19 yr old male that has been active for years, specifically with lifting heavy weights at a high level. It got to the point where my tissues couldn’t withstand the stress I was feeding it, where suddenly, during a light workout, I felt this painful cramping sensation around the groin. Initially, I thought it was a minor groin strain and tried to push through it even though my performance was starting to decline from that point on. Eventually, I got an X-ray/MRI, and the doc confirmed that I have an FAI impingement (prob in both hips) with a left hip labral tear. Now...this made sense given my symptoms (deep aching in the hip, groin discomfort, occasional clicking). It wasn’t too severe, and I knew damn well I didn’t want to go with surgery right away, so I opted for the conservative route. After trying to rehab (modifying loads/workload/movements) for months, my symptoms got slightly better, but I did not feel close to 100%. So I opted to find the next best option: stem cell injection. The procedure itself was not too uncomfortable. They took some blood, harvested my bone marrow, centrifuged them, and injected the stem cells/PRP back into my hip. After the injection, my left hip felt like it was on fire and swollen, but it was bearable, and I knew this was part of the inflammatory response that will trigger healing. Currently, I'm almost two weeks into my recovery, and my hip is still a bit achy/sensitive. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be gradually getting back into my activity and hoping my pain subsides. I will update periodically on my status, so stay tuned if interested. 4-Week Update: It's officially been 4 weeks since my stem cell treatment. I can say that the initial inflammation response has calmed down but it is still there. Like I mentioned previously, my activity is lifting weights. I have been able to keep pushing my upper body movements normally but my lower body movements are still very light. My hip still feels sensitive to higher loads, and I have not been able to return to my pre-treatment activity yet because of it. I'm hoping this is just part of the regenerative process and time will allow me to heal. I'm using my pain response to dictate my training and have been gradually increasing workloads these past few weeks on the movements described below. Here's how my current lower body routine looks for now: - Instead of back squats, I have switched to light tempo goblet box squats and split squats - Deadlifts have changed to tempo kettlebell deadlifts from an elevated surface, as well as single-leg kettlebell deadlifts - I have continued using the GHD to do tempo hip extensions and segmental back extensions - Light swimming about two times a week 8-Week Update: 8-weeks in, and I've been seeing constant improvements each week! The frequency and severity of my pain have reduced significantly. I would say I'm about 70% back to pre-treatment performance. I hope this next month will bring continued improvement to feel better than I did pretreatment, which is the goal! My workouts have been roughly the same (outlined in 4-Week update) but I've been able to add more weight to lower body stuff and more light cardio, like biking outside. 4-Month Update: Pain levels got slightly better in these 4 months but reverted to the same pain when I tried to return to my regular training. I think it’s safe to say the stem cells did nothing for me in the end. I just got the hip arthroscopy as my final resort. I’m 2 days out of my surgery, currently managing the pain and letting my body heal. Doc shaved down the cam/pincer and repaired the labrum. I will report back in a month on my recovery. 1-Month Post-Hip Arthroscopy: Ditched the crutches and finally able to walk without much pain, only some slight discomfort around hip flexors. Activity is still very limited. I can only do light biking and upper body exercises that involve absolutely no core activation (I.e. seated preacher curls). My surgeon said I have to keep this limit on my activity until the 3 month mark to ensure that I heal properly and protect the surgery. Patience is essential for this phase. My plan to try to maintain muscle mass: - Weekly PT sessions - Daily 20 min sauna - Light biking for at least 10 minutes/day - Light upper body lifts and isometrics - High protein diet (1.2g/lb of body weight) Please let me know if you have more clarifying questions.