I started having slight pains in my hip/groin area a few weeks ago. Not sure what triggered it no specific injury as such. But a few examples are I bent over to get the cat bowl and had a sharp shooting pain in my groin, budging up to the side so someone could sit next to me on the settee, reaching to the side to turn the bedroom light off in bed. So I assumed it to be a muscle strain which would go off. It has recently got worse, I'm now finding I get some aching in the hip itself. Mostly it's a feeling off pulling or tightness near the bikini line. But sometimes it's radiates like a band below my left buttock. My mum suffers with osteoarthritis so I'm getting myself wound up now believing I ll never be free of pain. Trying to get a doctors appointment is easier said than done. We re also trying to conceive and this is making things more difficult due to the pain I'm in.