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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I'm not a Dr. or play one on TV but that sounds exactly like sciatica. That nerve is getting pinched by a vertebra. I didn't fall, get in an accident.. nothing. It's mainly a malady of over 45 year old white males with European descent. Its a defect.
Dealt with it for 7 years. Over the years the pain varies from ibuprofen to shit I've got to go to the ER for a morphine drip from sciatica notch pain in the hip. Never went but it was some serious pain. Chiropractor didn't work for me. Acupuncture lowered the pain level. They can give you a steroid shot directly in the spine that will cure some people. Most get some benefit from the procedure.
Get an MRI and see how bad its getting pinched. If it is scaitca. The treatment is different for that than general lower back pain.
They can go in an shave part of the vertebra off thats pinching the nerve. But, the scar tissue from the procedure could grow into that space and your right back where you are before the procedure.
No magic bullet out there that works for everyone. People will tell you "THIS" is the solution. May or may not be. Going to have to try several options. Maybe the shot will work for you?
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I started having hip pain about 4 years ago. They did an x-ray and my hips were fine. I eventually had an MRI as the pain started shooting down my leg. The MRI showed degeneration (which happens, mine probably a little earlier having played football through college) and stenosis (narrowing of the spinal column, 38% of the population has stenosis). They recommended a laminectomy after my right foot started going numb. I had that in November of last year. It was miserable, but almost a year later, I feel completely better after pretty intense PT and core strengthening. Good luck.