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Shooting pain attacks in right groin area - female

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m33r4
m33r4

About me: 43 years old (44 soon)

Gender: Female

Weight: 9 stones

Height: 5'4"

Births: 3 children (now in late teens) by caesarean sections

Occupation: Admin

Hobbies: avid weightlifter for about 5 years but given up about 1.5 years ago

Daily exercise: dog walk for about 15 minutes

Problem: About 10 years ago I had, what I call my first attack. I was sat down on the grass in the park and got myself up first on my bent right leg to push the rest of my weight up on that leg. Suddenly, I lost my footing as the shooting pain my groin area was so severe I could have passed out. I was in absolute agony and had to keep completely motionless on the ground for what seemed like an eternity. Laying on my back, after about 5 minutes, I slowly tried to rock my leg in towards me and out away from me. When I dropped my leg away from me, I felt relief although after each attack the residual dull ache was present for about a day. Once I managed to get up on my feet, I found weight bearing on my right leg to be painful, to the point of having to limp for a while. After a while, the pain would go and I would then be able to walk normally. I didn't get this pain again for a good few years and recently, about 3 years ago, it started again. I went to my GP who sent me for an X ray which showed no abnormality. He then referred me physio and they couldn't detect anything either. The Physiotherapist felt that if I wore a hip brace (pull my hips tightly together) that may help. However, there was no hip brace available for a UK size 10. Recently, in the past few months, I get these attacks each time I am not "careful". By careful I mean, I can never put my weight on my right leg to support the rest of me, I can't swing my right leg too high for instance while crossing over a high gate on my dog walks, when I get out of my car, I have to swing both legs round and out of the car touching the ground and then lifting myself up on both feet (like old people do when they get out of cars). I am absolutely fed up with my condition. I worry about exercising, about gardening, about some type of work at my employers' as I had an attack that lasted 15 minutes only about a month ago. My life is miserable and my passion and hobby of weightlifting and exercise is on the backburner. I have no get up and go anymore to exercise when in the recent past I used to exercise almost daily and looking forward to it. What could be wrong? I have been reading up on femoral hernias but I am not quite sure if that is what I have. I have no lumps in my groin but I do have a lump in my left armpit (which I have had for about 6 months now) which has been investigated by bloods through my GP and haeamtologists who have both felt it was nothing to worry about. Any advice would be highly valued.

Thanks.

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  • weepeecee
    weepeecee

    Posted

    Have found this thread very interesting.........I have had severe and at times completely debilitating pain in my right groin area. It comes on suddenly and if walking I can struggle to put weight onto my right leg and need to bend and hold the painful area to experience any relief to allow me to continue to walk.

    The pain appears while walking, resting, moving etc.

    I spoke to my GP and he recommended co-codomol and anti-inflamatory cream -neither helped and I am still in the same amount of pain as I was when it first started a month ago. I initially thought I had pulled a muscle or suchlike having spent the day with my two toddler grandchildren however, the first sign of pain - and it was intense was when I stood up from a sitting position.

    I will return to health centre to consult a woman GP asap - any advice for the place to start a discussion?

    • Kookywit
      Kookywit weepeecee

      Posted

      I've got exactly the same symptoms, which started off as a Herniated Disc and then I started doing physiotherapy the lower back pain went to the hip and then the groin. Sometimes makes  my leg give way when I walk. I have to be very careful. I had a MRI Scan which showed quite a lot of damage to the spine, but now the problem seems concentrated to the groin. It's agony and I've had an X-Ray of the hips, next is an Ultra Sound to see if it can diagnose something. I love travelling and adventure, now my life's on "HOLD" What a nightmare! I'm in Brazil doing a mixture of NHS. & Private. I don't think I've got a Hernia. Otherwise extremely healthy and WAS active , haven't been for seven months , I think I've aged twenty years since this started!  Feel like an old woman.
    • rosemary06881
      rosemary06881 Kookywit

      Posted

      Hi Kookywit - I know what you mean about feeling old! I feel as if I walk like my 75 yr old mother-in-law; very depressing! I'm looking into acetabular labrum tears now, following another comment on this thread. Would love to get back into dancing again, but don't yet trust my hip to follow me! Good luck.
    • Kookywit
      Kookywit rosemary06881

      Posted

      I read all the news and info on Hernias, but personally I've always kept my muscles in very good shape. Still do planks and some stretching exercises, it takes so long to get the exams done. No lumps in armpit , or anywhere else for that matter! Thank God! When I sit for more than a few minutes it becomes impossible to walk normally, the pain is intense and feels as though I'm going rotten in the groin! AGONY! radiates down the thigh muscles  to the knee. Then my knee starts hurting , as though I'm walking differantly or something. I think the general posture is affected by the body's effort to ameliorate the pain. I try to wlak normally with head held high and NOT LIMP!  I suppose I have to stop taking ant-inflammatory before I have the Ultra-Sound. Because inflamtion shows up on it & if you' re taking medication I should think it would be counterproductive. I had ONE day with no pain! What joy! felt like a human being again. I think it was the anti-inflammatory before bed that hepled me sleep well and woke up PAIN FREE! Nice to be able to share one's woes!
    • marla38420
      marla38420 Kookywit

      Posted

      Hear ya....i wear a pelvic belt which helps keep my hips and pelvis straight but doesn't help pain. I hate this. I can go months feeling fine and boom. Back with a vengeance. Not fun! Keep in touch! Marla
    • Kookywit
      Kookywit marla38420

      Posted

      Hi, there! I've since discovered via Orthopedist that I DON'T have a Herniated Disc. He disagreed with The Report on the MRI Scan, and sent me to have more X-Rays. Standing Up from the sides(Profile) and lying down on my sides(Profile), also an Electroneuromiograph. Which is not a funny procedure. firts they put elctrodes on the muscles of one leg, give you varying degrees of electric shocks, then the other. After that they stick long needles in the muscles and send the shocks down the needle into the muscles. They compare one leg with the other. It's a qualified specialized Doctor who does it, he talked to me the whole time he was doing the procedure as it hurt quite a bit. Anyway looks like I have nerve damage in one leg from stenosis. Now The Orthopedist studies ALL the exams I did and will diagnose the problem and tell me what treatement he thinks best. He only operates in last instance. So I'm waiting for the outcome . Taking an Anti-inflamatory to help sleep. At the moment only got a pain in hip and sometimes my leg gives way. BAD pain in hip. I take Codeine once in a while, 30mgs but doesn't do much good, bit worried about getting addicted to it , or the pain getting worse after the effect wears off!

    • annette46091
      annette46091 Kookywit

      Posted

      Hi There,

      I am from Australia, I am 49 year old woman and I am having the exact pain, I put it down o hard rubbish removal but becuase I do volunteer work at my local hospital I am finding my knee hurts so much as well, that I have to rest the whole afternoon, I work Mon0Fri in Admin and sometimes the pain is so intense I feel like I cant walk up the stairs, seriously is there anything that can be done, I am average build (Aus size 12) and nearly 5"10 I am going CRAZY, I never know when its' coming and I dont want work thinking I have to have time off

  • dianesdestiny
    dianesdestiny

    Posted

    I am in the US. I am having the very similar symptoms including a lump in my left armpit. The pain is most intense when I stand from a sitting position. Often it is severe enough to make me catch my breath and swear under my breath. I am very careful now to wait several seconds after standing to be sure my leg will bear the weight. The last few days the pain has been radiating down into my thigh. I can walk once I am sure I can put full weight on it. Will make an appointment with my doctor now that I have read these posts and will let you know what learn.
  • samantha66063
    samantha66063

    Posted

    Hello, I'm a 24 year old female and I have a multitude of problems that started this year... However, recently I developed a vaginal yeast infection. I took the medicine to get ride of it, but was still having pain (like cramping and aches) and frequent urination. I took another antifungal and the obgyn said they did not see any more yeast and my UTI tests came out negative. One day I developed in between a stabbing and dull pain in my lower right groin. I went to the emergency room because the pain persisted and only got worse and did not subside with medicine. They did an ultrasound and set me home to go back to the obgyn. Then I was referred to a surgeon to see if I had a hernia. This all started monday and it is now friday and I still have this pain. I saw the surgeon this morning and said she did not see or feel a hernia and said she would definitely be able to tell because I am fit and do not have extra fat in that area. She stated that where she was pressing (which is where my pain was and intensified as she pushed on it) is where a hernia would be. Long story - short- she is sending me to a GI, and said I have a couple options she can do a colonoscopy or go in laproscopically to see if maybe there is something in my colon causing issues or possibly an issue with my appendix (guess the emergency room didnt think it was that) or if I had the start of a hernia. I really don't want any invasive procedures... with all my all my other unexplained issues, I have already had most the tests in the book. Anyways, I am still in a lot of pain. The surgeon also mentioned that I could possibly have issues with my back (I mentioned my lower back was in pain). She stated that the nerves in your lower back wrap around towards the front. If anyone can help with this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know... I have been through a lot of pain that no one can figure out this year and this is just another. I would really like to have a baby in a couple years and obviously can't if I'm not healthy.
    • tay71857
      tay71857 samantha66063

      Posted

      Hi samantha ,i chance upon this thread and i totally can understand what you had went through.not sure if you can see my reply as this post of yours was two yrs ago.

      I would like to know how are you now?

      I had my attack in jan 2018,shooting oain in groin on and off.

      Saw many specialist but non cure

      Saw ohyn,urology,general surgeon,gp

      Done ct scan,mir scan,pap smear,virginal scan,urine test x 5 all neg.,colonscopy,gastrology.nothing found.i read your post is very similar to mine case.wondering have you been cure ,lesser pain?

      Found out the cause of it?

    • sobia15641
      sobia15641 tay71857

      Posted

      Hi 

      I was having the same pain from 2015. In my little one 4th pregnancy but it was very occasional. My gynecologist said its normal. But with time specially in 2017 it became un bearable and frequency and intensity was so high that i started crawling instantly of walking. My doc, gynecologist, orthopedic none could find anything. Two ultra sounds, 2 MRI, few x rays showed everything was fine. But pain was still there. 

      Then my gynecologist told me to go for physical therapy which deals with pelvic floor adjustment ( layman language). She gave me name of that specific therap. I went there. She told me it will take 12 weeks and i will be find. And here i am completely recovered. Alhumdulillah. 

    • sobia15641
      sobia15641

      Posted

      This is there site. U can check if u uave similar therapy close to ur place or not.  U can talk to Melissa too. She is very understanding and cooperative.

      http://optimalivingtherapy.com/

      Tc

    • evelyn29350
      evelyn29350 sobia15641

      Posted

      I've also had this same unexplainable pain on and off since my second child. I just realized I also have urinary incontinence. So you mentioning the pelvic floor/wall has shone some light on my issue as it seems as though they may be connected.

    • sobia15641
      sobia15641 evelyn29350

      Posted

      When i went to pelvic floor therapy she asked abt all these things. She deals with all related problems.  I also had little bit of urgency issues but that solved too
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