Background: I had a car accident in 2013. A car hid head on into my passenger side with such force, my passenger door was inside the car. I had bruised hips from the seatbelt doing it's job but unharmed.
I recall having a very sore back at hips immediately after and have had low level, but increasing pain in my lower back and hips for years.
It's now got to the stage where I function at a 6 out of 10 in pain most days. The pain resonated around my pelvis but goes from the bottom of my waist to about halfway down my thigh but mainly focussed in the pelvic and groin area.
I am having issues sleeping - getting cormntable is a real pain. Literally. And I have brokn sleep. I sleep with a pillow between my knees which goes some way to helping.
Ibuprofen and voltarol also help reduced the pain which by nighttime is approx 8 out of 10. This lowers it down to maybe a 5 or so.
I've been to see my GP who said she suspects it could be arthritis. She has prescribed some Naproxen (2 x 500mg daily), advcised some exercises and also suggested I get a seat cushion for at work to help as I do a deskjob and am sat for approx 7 hours a day.
She said it was pointless doing an xray to prove/disprove as the end treatment whether arthritis or not would be the same.
I'm only 33 and the idea of having this low level pain for the rest of my life sucks.
Appaprently a cortisone(?) injection could be done but it would target the bone areas as opposed to where i am suffering the pain.
So... do i treat it as Arthritis and read up on the same for treatment and assistance? Or just "hip pain" and hope it goes
YANBU - Treat as arthritis
YABU - Treat it as hip pain