Shooting pain attacks in right groin area - female

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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.

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    I'm having OZONE GAS injections in all the acupuncture points and am almost cured. Also here in Brazil they are injecting OZONE GAS into the cartiledge to restore it if you have inflamation because of nerve damage, like Sciatica. They do it in a Hospital , with Videolaparoscopy, it's done by an qualified surgeon and is quite expensive. My treatment is all private , + the fact that my doctor is determined to cure me. I've had about six sessions and the pain only turns up if I do too much . walking or sitting down for too long. I was told that I'm not to sit down for more than 40 minutes. So I've now got no pain! Planning on travelling to celebrate. Feeling very lucky!

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    Female, 59, avid athlete allsports.  2 C sections 30 plus years ago.  This is when it began for me.  I tried to make a quick dash when about 6 months pregnant and strained my right groin.  After the first C section I managed to get it to where it was able to run competitively without much concern, although I was aware that leg remained weak for sudden bursts of speed.  I could also easily aggravate the groing pull sensation by kicking hard while swimming.  I had a cortisone shot twice into the bursa (right groin) to get the healing started (according to my doctor), so the diagnosis was bursitis.  The pain relief was amazing, but temporary, of course. Not wanting a third shot, I then tried (one session and last time ever) acupuncture, which was a complete disaster, leaving me in such pain I could not get out of my car afterwards, and could not stand.  I continued modifying my lifestyle, eliminating one thing, then another.  About 10 years ago I found I could run uphill easier, and took to shuffling downhill.  About 3 years ago it was impossible to run at all.  The sharp pain can be in both groin now, or switch daily, hourly from one side to another.  Now I am walking slowly and with constant pain, and dread anything over 200 yards.  Over these 30 years, doctors have given me countless useless diagnosis : too tight, too loose, try yoga, sacroiliac issues, do lunges and core work, psoas, hip flexors, arch supports, inversion therapy, rest, ice, somatics, have I missed anything here, you name it.

    My personal diagnosis:  I think the C sections 2 years apart weakened my core and created deep scar tissue.  I have also had a 40 year history of lumbar issues, not crippling by any means, but always there.  When I was told I was tight, prob from all the running over the years, so I dove into 3.5 yrs of Bikram yoga 6x a week like clockwork.  This is how I have approached all the new therapy ideas, so desperate for relief I would crawl to hell and back.  While I got pretty good at this stuff smile , I have hyoermobile joints to begin with, and the hot yoga only aggravated my back and hip pain...and led to knee pain..so I gave that up.  It felt like my ligaments were getting so loose my skeleton wasn't suffiiciently supported, and my back, hips, and knee were getting very aggravated to where I could hear the grating within the joint in postures.  My back got so loose that one day in a minor lean back in class (a few inches) with my hands on hips for support led to a sudden pop and 2 months on the sofa with back/groin/knee shooting pain 24/7.  This was not the first such incidence, but it was worse each time.  No more bikram.

    So in my experience there is a nerve which is pinched by my lower back disk, L5 suspect.  I am best in the morning.  By evening I am usually worthless and my lower back feels like it is in a vice and my groins, one or both, are in agony.  I am trying now a foam roller for back and groin, feels nice, I don't know if it is doing any good yet.  Also mini lunges (wince with back, knee, groin pain) and core.  I have zero faith in being a guinea pig for doctors any more.  If it was a stress fracture it would've healed decades ago.  All I can surmise is that it is a pinched nerve from my back, perhaps aggravated by the C Section scar tissue and residual numbness in the belly that creates a "disconnect" with my abdominal region.  My gut tells me this is a large part of it, although I have no professional affirmation of it.  I had zero issues prior to that.  

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    I was diagnosed with adhesive ARACHNOIDITIS 8 years ago I have had 3 bowel obstruction surgeries since then and recently had Double hernia repair .I was diagnosed with spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis when i got the diagnosis for ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS. I just recently started getting horrible as hatp psin on my right side in my groin. It brings tears to my eyes and I have couple of grape sized lumps there as well as in my neck. So I'm sort of confused between the stenosis and the lymph nodes?

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    I understand what you mean groin pain. I had a nasty slip and fall in march 9 mo ago. Could not stand strait with severe groin pain. So far ultrasound found 4 hernias a very large femoral where groin pain is. Fixed the hernias groin pain still there. I can only stand on my feet for few minites at a time and need to sit to relieve the pain.did mri of my back found 2 herniated discs L3&L4 had a nerve block 2 weeks ago felt great for 2 days. Groin pain still there. This 24/7 pain is really getting to me have been confined to a recliner chair since march.

    CBD oil helps the anxiety from pain better.. my back has never hurt only my groin with severe tingling on inner thigh

    I ice my lower back good and groin pain goes away for a while n ice again  it works for me but location where to ice changes daily

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    Hey 

    I was just wondering if u got the right diagnosis for your problem or not?  I am going through exactly same pain. I have 4 kids, all normal deliveries but the only difference is i am not into exercise person. I just reduce few pounds in last few months by dieting and20-30 minuets trade mill. 

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    Hello. I'm too am having the same issues you speak of. Xray was negative

    Waiting to get approved for a me I

    Some days I'm good other days real bad. It used to be intermittent now it's constant, and walking with a limp. No lumps. Just severe stabbing pains walking. I hope you get answers, me too. I'll keep you posted. Best healthy wishes

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      Waiting for MRI approval.

      Damn typos!!

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      Same here. Some good days like i have no problem at all and some days i wakeup in morning and yup its there and will comeup or every step i take. I have little one 2 1/5 years and she is in process of potty training. Its all disturbed in between and the pain is sooo high that i am scared to get up.  

      I have done ultrasound, xray, MRI for back. Every thing is fine. Now my orthopedic asked for pelvic MRI. Thats also done but i have appointment by next week. Lets c what she says now.

      But i have started one thing which is kind of helping. Physical therapy specialist in pelvic floor exercises. Just had 2 sessions but I would definitely recommend u try that. 

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    Hi I am a male, but what you describe sounds very much like a badly worn hip, I had this same Right leg Groin Pain 15 years ago [I was 52 years old]  my GP & the NHS hospitals messed me around for over 12 months sending me for physio, various pain meds' etc, until I insisted on more x-rays & scans which I got the hospital sent the results on to my GP & he simply said Oh dear you need a new hip.. I had the operation 3 months later but unfortunately & un-be-knowing to me at the time I got the wrong surgeon to the op' & I had a long pain full recovery & still today its not right....last year [October] I had my other hip done on opposite side, but this time i made sure I got the right man for the job I had a full recovery which only took 4 months the difference between the 2 operations was like night & day...but the bad news was that the hip I had done 15 years ago is badly worn mainly due to the operation not being done right in the first place & now needs doing again...more pain  ahead.

    get your doc to get you checked out again, the NHS tend to put hip replacements off for people well under the age of 60.

    good luck

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    Hey, I have this exact issue. Have you figured out what your is?

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