Weird pain
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I've had intermittent bad pain in my groin, front of thigh and buttock for two years. It started as just an intermittent searing thigh pain, then it went. Then came back as front of thigh, inner thigh and groin pain. Then it went. Now it's back with terrble buttock pain as well to the point of me crying with the pain level whilst out shopping. I never wake up with pain. It comes either immediately I start to walk or after walking for a few minutes with no pain. Yesterday I thought the pain had gone and went shopping. Bad decision. After about ten minutes the awful heavy burning pain started in the inner thigh, spread to my groin and I came back with the most awful pain in my buttock as well. I've just had a hip X-ray and waiting for the results. I had an MRI in September and have uploaded an image.
I'm now having to do online shopping and I hate this inability to walk anywhere. I've just got back from a very short walk and I can feel the pain boring into my upper inner thigh. When I say the pain eventually gets bad I mean a 10.
Two doctors have now said they think the pain is muscular and have given me Naproxin and gabapentin and I have an appointment at the muscular/skeletal clinic in a month's time. I do not for one minute think it's muscular, I would know if I'd pulled a muscle there and I haven't. Has anyone here any idea what it could be please?
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Carolineq8 sarah22500
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Ah I totally understand how you feel regards to your pain, Have those doctors not read this report? It seems your pain is more to do with the changes in your spine not a pulled muscle, once you've seen a specialist I'm sure they will be able to help you further, hope you get sorted soon, let us know how you get on 😊
sarah22500 Carolineq8
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Thank you Caroline, I also think it's to do with my back. The Naproxin tablet I took this morning is wearing off now and the pain all along my inner thigh is horrible. I've only been sitting, not walking.
Anyway I will now try out the gabapentin.
Carolineq8 sarah22500
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Ye it will be very painful, I really feel for you 😢,hopefully you will get some relief with pregabalin, be careful with naproxen, as much as they can be very helpful they can also have side effects, check with your doc if your having to take them long term, I wish you well Hun 😊
Laura3333 sarah22500
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It's wear and tear in your back, nothing major, but add them all together and you would have discomfort.
Google. Dermatomes. You will be able to narrow it down to which part of your back it is coming from.
Gabapentin is for nerve pain, and if you have peripheral neuropathy in both feet, it's usually from level l4/5-S1
I could be looking at my own report reading that.
jessica_78456 Laura3333
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I disagree . When u suffer like I do and this woman does , its major. What's going on is not normal by far. Pain affectes everyone different and what some see as minor is not so minor to us . Just my opinion.
Laura3333 jessica_78456
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I suffer pain every day, have had lots of surgeries including fusion, they can't cure everything.
I have been registered disabled for 30+ years, it is in no way minor, just that reading the results, it does not come up with a definitive cause for the pain, it could be several things.
Your opinion is not backed up, scoliolis and spondyolesthesis are not forms of arthritis.
Wear and tear is not minor when it's in the spine, why would you think I said it was, just nothing major. ie no definitive cause.
Yes spinal injections may help.
She wanted someone to interpret the results she had, many people will have exactly the same results with no pain, people vary.
The results show wear and tear.
Just my opinion.
jessica_78456 sarah22500
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Well basically the words begin with s mean a form of arthritis and protruding means ur disc are not as they should be, it's the protrusion that will. Compression on ur nerves causing pain I have this, I also have erosion of the left facet joints. I've already had one emergency discectomy decompression in 2013 and I am now ready for another with spinAl fusion. Google ur diagnosis. By the look of yr report it's definitely not muscle pain on its own. I would insist on seeing a neurosurgeon. I did best thing I ever did. Degenerative disc diease dose not magically get better. They may try a spinal block for pain relief at first this does not work for everyone. It didn't work for me twice. But they will insist u try and to be fair they may not offer much else if u refuse. Good luck
sarah22500 jessica_78456
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Thank you for an interesting reply Jessica. Actually I was told over a year ago at the pain clinic I was down for an injection into the coccyx. A year ago!! I've still heard nothing....I will get in touch with the hospital on Monday as I reckon I've slipped through the net....
DJ1976 sarah22500
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Sarah I gone through the similar pain in the buttock down the right leg to where at times I felt that I was going to have to crawl back to my car.
I don't know what kind of Dr. You are seeing. You definitely need a second opinion soon. It is NERVE pain not muscular. I am seeing a pain management Dr. There are injections that are available to help. Your MRI shows impingement in the spinal cord.
This will definitely give you the pain you are experiencing. I had this pain for the last 4 yrs.
Finally we tried a nerve stimulator by NERVO for 5 days with no help. I just completed the BURST by St. Jude's Hospital and had reduction the the pain you have. Next week I see the neurosurgeon who specializes in the implantation permanently in my back. This process of elimination has taken a long time.
The drugs you are on. Gabapetin is for nerve pain, but look out for the side effects that come on subtle. It makes you short with people, snapping at everyone and to the point you might tell the Dr. that you don't like how you are behaving. If you have or get these, call Dr. Right away and get off the medication.
The Naproxen can wreak havoc on your stomach. So be careful how much you take. I found the the pain was so bad use ice for 20 mins on and 20 mins. Off. Please seek out some new Drs. Good luck and keep me posted.
Dee
sarah22500 DJ1976
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Carolineq8 sarah22500
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I have nerve damage also in my left leg but my chiropractor does something and I swear it reduces the pain so much, he has also helped with my back as I could barely stand up straight or walk before I started treatment, I have cervical lordosis, bone spurs and bulging discs on 5 levels and it causes horrendous muscle spasms but he does traction and it keeps it at bay, maybe try a few treatments and see how it goes, I swear by him 😊
DJ1976 sarah22500
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Happy 😊I could bring a smile with a possible good outcome.
sarah22500
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sarah22500
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I have never ever had such pain as i have this evening. I kept kneeding the inner thigh this afternoon where the pain always is and this seems to have made the pain worse. In fact it's a 10 again. I cant get out of a car because I have to bring that leg up which sends the pain to a 10 immediately. I took a 100mg gabapentin at 10 am and it didn't touch the pain. Took another at 2pm and again no pain relief. I have now had to go back to the naproxin and 2 paracetamol to try and dull the severity. I now keep thinking it's a tumour because the pain deep in my upper thigh is sooo awful, but I havent got numbness and the pain is only in that thigh. I'm scared tonight because the thigh pain is worse than it's ever been.:
Laura3333 sarah22500
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It sounds exactly like nerve pain, and 100mg Gabapentin is such a small dose, I'm on 300mg, 3 times a day, plus an extra 100 mgs thrown in when needed, spaced out every eight hours, plus 250mg naproxen 3 times daily, plus diazepam to dull spasms. My daughter is taking 900mg Gabapentin three times daily, so you can see what a small dose you are on.
Can you take a larger dose, and get a gp appointment to up the dose next week, you shouldn't be in this much pain. Gabapentin will help though it spaces you out, but I can't function without it.
Don't take it ad hoc though, take it every eight hours on the dot, keep it in your system, same with naproxen, you can also take either co- codamol or paracetamol with that combination.
Laura3333 sarah22500
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sarah22500 Laura3333
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Thanks for that Laura, That has reassured me a lot although I can see you are in a hell of a lot of pain too. I'm sorry
but you are able to keep the pain at bay which is positive. I didn't know you could take G & N together. I feel a bit less scared now knowing I can take a lot more if needed. I get my repeat prescriptions online so I will send a note to the surgery requesting advice. By the way because I can't walk without pain at the moment I went into a local mobility aids shop to have a look at scooters you can hire. The assistant told me there is a charity which actually pays most of the cost of a new scooter to you if you fulfil all the criteria. I was gobsmacked. I've never heard of a charity that did that, have you? There is no way I can afford even a second hand one at the moment but it looks as if hiring one now and again might be the answer.
Laura3333 sarah22500
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No, haven't heard of that Sarah, but I can't sit down for more than a few minutes, or walk much, so haven't looked at scooters.
Yes you can definitely take G+N plus painkillers together at the same time.
my pains not under control, but I got to the top dose of G and it didn't work after a while so I had to come off it and start again at 100 and increase.
I'm doing it slowly as it's the only drug that helps, without it the pain is intolerable.
i also have meralgia paraesthetica, which is a searing nerve pain in both thighs if I try to stand or walk for more than a few mins, it's like being stabbed by an icicle, horrible,,have had a lot if injections for this, last ones were in my groin, so I understand your pain. If I have more, it will be at the side of the main nerve that supplies that area in my thighs, but I have numbness, from groin to knee, both sides so it desn't sound the same.
It's the nerve that supplies the lateral cutaneous nerve in your groin.
Nerve pain is awful, I would be tempted to up the G if I Were you.
sarah22500 Laura3333
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Laura3333 sarah22500
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No, I was on the top dose and my body got used to it and it stopped being effective, so I had to take Lyrica and get G totally out of my system so it would work again, was like going cold turkey.
I've had this a lot of years.