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Bent over to pick something up and put my hip 'out'

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2kidsintow · 14/08/2012 12:51

How is this possible? WHat could be causing it?

I've been to the GP to complain of hip problems over the last few years. Tightness. Pain. A tendency to have it feel like it has been 'dislocated' if I've sat cross legged for a while. Xrays. Blood tests. Nothing diagnosed.

I went away and put up with it for a while.

THen it started to go 'out' if I was climbing stairs quickly. So I went back to the GPs. They asked questions and said no point retesting anything. Referral to the physio. Phone call with physio. THey are mystified. I am on the waiting list to see them.

Weeks away from the physio making an appt. I've had exercises to do and they have helped a tiny bit. Tightness less of a problem, but still there. But it is getting worse.

It has started to feel like it has slipped out if I have bent from the hip to pick stuff up off the floor. This is something I do all the time at home (sorting laundry, picking stuff off the floor) and at work too. It is particularly bad if I do any twisting to pick stuff up from different directions.

I bend over, I get a stab of pain in my hip, which makes me automatically take the weight off it. When I try and walk, I can't without pain.

It is doing my head in. I have no idea what it could be. I am reluctant to go back to the GP as I feel I am not getting anywhere and am sounding like a right complainer. At the moment my plan is to wait and see what happens when I've seen the physio person.

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Treblesallround · 14/08/2012 14:59

I have bursitis in one hip and what you describe sounds a bit like my symptoms. Do you sleep on that side? If so you may find it eases if you avoid sleeping on it for a while.

Mine has been very, very much better since I've had my wide horse so I suspect that stretching it has helped (not recomending you get a horse, but maybe some gentle stretching?)

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