Deb Pendleton Hip Story

nospam@example.com (Deb Pendleton) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:19:55 -0700

I started having flashes of leg pain about 5 years ago. Just a stab here and there depending on how I stood, bent or my level of activity. Mostly, in my crotch area and "upper leg". I mentioned this to my doctors as the years went by and the reply was always something like "you are getting to that "age" in your life when "these things "happen. in other words it fell on deaf ears. As the years went on, the pain slowly got worse. Finally in June of this year I sent myself to a bone specialist because the pain had just gotten out of hand. I couldn't walk any distance without doubling over in pain. Upon x-ray, it was found my hip was bone on bone. I was 52 years old .This may sound weird, but after the initial horror of seeing my bones hanging there with no cartilage, I felt relief that at last I could see what was causing all this pain.. It never occurred to me that it was a hip problem. All these years it had just been dismissed as "Old Age". I do not consider myself old today and I certainly didn't consider myself old 6 years ago.

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