I can't remember exactly when it started, but certainly since the firet lockdown started, I've had the most horrendous pain in both hips, which makes my legs painful for walking, and constantly sends shooting pains up my upper thighs/groin/buttocks. Sometimes it can feel like sciatica, also my hips sometimes feel as if they need to click before I can move them, and you can hear the click which is accompanied by pain. I don't have enough mobility to put my socks on easily and I can't walk up and down stairs normally, I have to do it like a toddler, particularly when going down stairs. When I'm walking around the house I often have to lean on something for support and I really struggle to get up off the floor.
I know I need to try and see if I can speak to a doctor but they're not seeing anyone at the moment and it's so hard trying to get on the phone. It's getting me down so much, I dread the one day a week I have to walk my daughter the mile to school because it's just so painful, I can't do my housework easily or stand to do the ironing, everything is an effort.
I took a prescription dihydrocodeine this morning along with some paracetamol for a migraine, it always shifts a migraine pretty quickly so I got up when I felt better - and found I have absolutely no leg/hip pain whatsoever. I can walk around the house completely normally and my mobility is completely normal, even for putting my socks on. I'll have to race round and do the housework while the painkillers are still working - they only prescribe me 30 every few weeks so I don't want to go through them although I might take one tomorrow morning so I can walk to school. It's starting to really get me down, not being able to exercise, do proper mum things, housework etc - I can't even go for a simple walk without being in agony, and when we set out on the walk to school, it seems like such a mountain ahead. I'm dreading tomorrow morning after last week's walk.
Like I said, I do know I need to try and speak to a Dr but does anyone have any idea what this might be and what they could do? It sounds suspiciously like how my mum was with her arthritis before she had her hips replaced. I am very very allergic to ibuprofen so I can't be prescribed that for it, and paracetamol does nothing. I think the feeling of being normal this morning has made me feel I shouldn't be suffering this pain any longer. I just hope the Dr can give me something, I know they'd be reluctant to let me have more dihydrocodeine than they already give me.