Long time poster; name change as details are outing.
Woke up this morning feeling like I’d pulled a hip flexor. Context: day before, my father’s funeral and got to bed very late on a makeshift bed. Ouchy, but thought would be fine for a bath and stretches.
Have a long family lunch with elderly relatives. My left hip is sore, but OK. Sit in the car for two hours to drive home and it gets worse, so have hot Epsom salt bath and do relevant stretches and get massage gun out.
Fast forward to now and any position is absolutely agony. Just tried to go to the loo and impossible to sit down or put weight on my left leg. Can’t roll over in bed or sit up. I’ve managed an hour or two of sleep and no idea what to do. Left hip is absolutely excruciating. Worse than childbirth.
As husband rescues me screaming in pain from the bathroom and says A&E in the morning but that seems dramatic and I’m worried about wasting people’s time.
I’m scared though as I had a microdiscetomy on my L4 L5 and I’m worried this pain is somehow related.
If you’ve got this far, please tell me what the best route for medical help is, or there is some hope this will magically stop.
Or send a handhold as I’ve just said goodbye to my Dad and all that’s got me through the last four weeks is the thought of a lovely quiet Christmas at home with my 8yo DS and DH (after last year I was recovering from spinal surgery / wrist fracture and the Christmas before that my boy had appendicitis).