So I've now stumped TWO different physios.

[2kidsintow]

Come on, NHS. Diagnose me!

Went to the GP with hip pain and trouble walking over 2 years ago.

Xrays and blood tests showed nothing.

Saw another doctor. Was told it should improve by itself.

A year later, after falling upstairs in a public place (while sober) I'd had enough of hoping that it'd get better, I went back.

I was referred to the physio dept. They saw me for a few months. Gave exercises and stratches to try. Some eased up a bit of stiffness. Some made things more painful. She gave up and referred me back to the hospital.

They saw me for 15 mins and decided (despite being sent there BY the physio) that I should go BACK to a different physio.

To be fair, a few of his exercises helped a bit, but after another few months, things aren't improving any more and few of the exercises are starting to aggravate things again.

FINALLY I've been told that he can do no more and that he'll refer me for 'a scan'. I'm not sure what type of scan this could be, but an MRI has been mentioned before by a different doctor.

Fingers crossed they will show something.

I've had similar for the past 5 years, but have just been diagnosed (after 3 years of seeing a rheumatologist) with Marfan syndrome. Long shot, but by any chance are you long limbed, or is your arm span more then your height when measured?

I've not noticed that I'm particularly long limbed. I'm hyper mobile (I've just learned) and they suspected bursitis at some point. Now I think the physio was thinking that there might be something about the shape of my socket/ball in the hip that is causing a pinch injury when I lift my leg.

I shall wait and see what they suggest next.

A MRI should determine that then 2kids..

I have to say i'm hypermobile too, got a tape measure? although if you're alone then measuring your arm span won't be easy.. so if you grab your wrist with your thumb and little finger, do they overlap?

An MRI scan can look at the soft tissues. Normal x-ray for the bones/joints.
I had an MRI scan which showed a torn knee cartilage after seeing the specialist who manipulated me and said it was most likely and he sent me for the MRI scan to confirm his diagnosis.
Without a scan pysios cannot know for sure what it is or what the apprtopriate exercises, manipulation should be.
Twice my Physio wrote to my GP suggesting an x-ray on my lumber region and just recently for an x-ray of my hip joint. The latter the GP ignored and sent me for a chest x-ray instead
MRI scans are very expensive and not done if they can help it, so hope you do get one.

Could it be sciatica? Any history of back probs? My sciatica is mainly around my hip and buttock.

Mine too, Matilda!

I've had an xray of the area and mentioned this to the physio. He said that the x ray wouldn't be sensitive enough to pick up what they would be looking for, so it won't be another xray.

I've had back pain in the past Matilda, and sciatica. The hip trouble is very different. Originally, it manifested in that - if I'd been sitting cross legged and then stood up I could not bear weight on my leg or lift it. I was completely immobile. Yet if I sat, readjusted and got back up, I'd be pain free and could move.

After some physio, it is now that when I get up 'wrong' I can stand on the leg and sort of walk, but it doesn't feel right and won't extend properly behind me as I walk. And when I bend (from the hip, naughty, naughty) I get a stab of pain that makes me stumble. It catches me unawares. Again, to recover I need to sit down and then get up again.

Generally I have weak legs now (so it feels) and climbing stairs is a problem. The whole movement of lifting my knee up is the one that really catches at the front of my hip and I can feel it straight away. If I try and walk quickly, then it aches and hurts down the front of my right hip joint too.

Sigh.... hopefully it is an MRI and hopefully it will be something that they can spot.

Thumb and little finger don't meet, lol, never mind overlap!