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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

    I am sorry to read both comments above, however the most recent message refers to similar pain as my own.

    I am still experiencing the same or similar pain in my right groin area and have difficulty in standing from sitting position. I also experience pain from movement when in bed. I found the information on 'femoral hernia' very useful but not yet had any further medical consultation.

    • iloveyourbling
      iloveyourbling weepeecee

      Posted

      I have the same problem you are having. I had a CT done ten months ago and all came back clear. I also had a knee X-ray done and it was clear. last week I could not take it anymore and went to the ER. They did a ultrasound of my groin and found it to be clear. I started crying and the Dr. said, but I had a friend in CT whom is a Dr to look at your CT again and he said they must have been looking for a stone because this girls problem is in her hip. I was flipped, no one wants to hear that. So it's 1:19am and I am scheduled for an MRI @9:00am.I am scared to death and I am in chronic pain. I will post my results as soon as I am given them. I cannot live with this pain, this is horrible.
    • gaynor48889
      gaynor48889 iloveyourbling

      Posted

      I have excruciating pain in my groin and will go to doctors as soon as I can but having trouble walking, feels like my leg will give way

       

    • evelyn29350
      evelyn29350 weepeecee

      Posted

      Do you happen to have urinary incontinence as well? Someone else on the thread mentioned physical therapy on pelvic floor which absolutely helps with incontinence but I'm unsure if it's tied to this pain. I have the same pain as well.

    • sobia15641
      sobia15641 evelyn29350

      Posted

      Yes i had it too but very little. When i went she asked me abt all these issues too
  • m33r4
    m33r4

    Posted

    Hello everyone.

    samantha66063 - get checked for a PID - pelvic inflammatory disease. My 19 year daughter had same symptoms as you and after weeks and months of not knowing what it is, she had several swab tests done (vaginal) and finally the last swab came back showing PID although the other countless swabs never showed this. A 2 week course of strong antibiotics (namely Doxycline and Metronidazole) will need to be taken twice a day. Pain could only be managed by Codeine 30mg (again prescription only). Paracetamol and Ibuprofen both failed to give relief. My daughter had to go to the hospital Accident & Emergency who did all these further tests for her. She was given morphine which didn't help and an injected muscle relaxant was administered. She stayed overnight and was discharged with PID on antibiotics and codeine. Over 8 days later she still has pain.

    I hope you get better.

    • CandyAbbott
      CandyAbbott m33r4

      Posted

      Thanks for sharing. My pain was minimal compared to your daughter. The X-rays showed some wear and tear on my hip, and the doctor prescribed physical therapy which is helping. I still have to be careful not to put weight on it when I turn. So sorry about what your daughter is going through. Hopefully, 2016 will be much improved . . . totally healed.
  • m33r4
    m33r4

    Posted

    wacky - OT means Occupational Therapist.
  • m33r4
    m33r4

    Posted

    wacky - in answer to your questions:

    Did you have these pains in your leg and groin when you had this first xray that shows an earlier problem - yes I did but not as severe

    When and if they operate will it be in the same area as a femoral hernia, if so it would hopefully rule that out anyway - if they operated it would be to directly "shave" the hip bone that was protruding so higher up than the hernia site I would guess.

    If you are managing to cope with your problems and keep the pain at bay by moving carefully would you still want an operation, especially one where they are going to take bone off - I would choose the op as a last resort if my life was completely hindered by it. I have therefore chosen to live with it and be careful with it as shaving any form of bone may well lead to arthritis in older age.

    Did you ask the consultant if weight lifting would affect this problem you have - The Consultant in fact asked me if I kick boxed as my injury is very consistent with kick boxers as they lift their leg considerably high to kick constantly. I asked him about my gym activities but he wasn't concerned about it. However I was doing a yoga teacher training course at the time and he advised me to give that up as a lot of yoga moves were very injurious to that area. In fact while doing the Warrior Pose I suffered a terrible attack which meant I had to pull out of the yoga teacher training course.

  • m33r4
    m33r4

    Posted

    I have rejoined the gym a month ago and am back in my weight training routine. I feel better for it. It' was hard to just give up on something that I enjoyed for so long. Hopefully I won't aggravate the hip. I avoid squatting or lunging exercises.
  • samantha66063
    samantha66063

    Posted

    Hello m33r4. Thank you for your response. I mentioned PID to my obgyn and she said that I wouldn't have that because I tested negative for gonnohria(sp?) and chlamydia. did your daughter have either of those
  • m33r4
    m33r4

    Posted

    samantha66063 - she tested negative for all STDs 3 times in the recent weeks. Then whilst in hospital last week they swabbed her again and she was positive for chlamydia. The worrying thing is it took 5 tests to get to that diagnosis.
  • samantha66063
    samantha66063

    Posted

    How old is she? What kind of test did she get done for the PID? Also what exact pains did she have? I have pains that feel like menstrual cramps and really bad pain in the right lower groin and sometimes on the left side. It hurts to push to go the bathroom
  • cuzinit
    cuzinit

    Posted

    to weepeecee from cuzinit; I am positive that the pain, both in the right side of my groin as well as in my knee, involving my sciatica and shooting into right foot is caused by an injury to my psoap muscle. I did, whatever I did, some time ago (months) and seem to have aggravated and made it much worse by 'ignoring ' the symptoms until now. After a lot of researching and reading of symptoms on many sites including those of chiropracters, yoga experts and back pain specialists, I have found and am implementing a few exercises to'release' the muscle. It hurts but is starting to make some improvement. The aching pain at night is the worst, it has had me in tears and sleeping sitting up on the couch more than once. If you think any of this sounds like what you are going thru, I would be happy to text with you. Good luck and let me know. Namaste
  • m33r4
    m33r4

    Posted

    Samantha - My daughter had swab tests much like STD tests. The pain she had is as you describe

    However she also began to get a foul smelling discharge along with spotting. She constipated and found bowel movements painful. She also found it tortuous to pass urine.

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