16 Y/o With Recurring Hip Pain That Spreads To Lower Back/leg?

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:22:29 +0000

Okay, so I’m only 16 years old but I have a recurring pain in my hip/lower back/leg that absolutely will not go away. When I stand, it will start as a dull ache in my hip, and gradually spreads down my leg to about my calves – only not the muscle – and my lower back, and get sharper after a short time. When I walk a very short distance (as short as from one class to another) I’d only take a few steps and it starts up. I can’t bend over, and lying on my stomach or back hurts, which makes sleeping uncomfortable. I also can’t stand up straight, which gets on my nerves the most.
I have experienced this two or three times before, but this time it’s at it’s worst.
Like I said, I’m only 16. I’m not active in any sports or overweight in the slightest (5′7″ and 120 lbs.)
I’ve had x-rays done, but they’re all normal, and my docs don’t seem inclined to really figure out what’s going on. They just told me that if it keeps up, I’ll have to have physical therapy, but I’m scared that if they don’t know exactly what it is it could just get worse.
So yeah. Any ideas?

Lower Left Back/leg Pain…doctors Have Ideas, No Exact Diagnosis Though. Help???

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:11:00 +0000

For bout a month now, I’ve been in and out of the doctor’s office, an orthopedic, and now a physical therapist’s office. I’ve had x-rays of my hips and lower back, a CT Scan of my spleen since I’m just getting over mono, blood work to rule out a couple of things that run in my family like lupus, and an ultrasound of my kidneys to see if it was a kidney stone like my doctor originally thought.
When all of that was ruled out, I was sent to an orthopedic. The orthopedic said that it sounded like my facet joints being inflamed due to the mono though it was rare for my age, and my muscles were tightening in response which could have resulted in my siatic (not sure how to spell that, sorry) nerve being pinched by them. I was told physical therapy for two week, twice a week, my muscle relaxers and an anti-inflammatory.
When I saw the therapist, at the end of the session, she said it sounded and seemed more like a disc problem to her. We told her that disc issues run in my family which they do, on all sides. I go back to therapy this Wednesday and Friday, and then the orthopedic on Friday afternoon after therapy. If I’m not feeling better which I haven’t been, then I go for an MRI.
I’ve been on 3 different pain killers which I’ve been told to stop taking them now to prevent getting an addiction to them. I can only sit in the computer chair, I’m home bound from school (a teacher from the county comes to me), I can’t bend in any way, I can barely get dressed, I can’t even lift my left leg up to put a sock on. I’m a 16 year old female, I’ve always had minor back problems, at least the last few years I have, but nothing ever quite like this. My dad seems to agree with the therapist, and I’m just worrying a lot. The pain goes from the lower left side of my back, through my butt, down my leg to my foot and back up, just on the back side of my leg. For a few days the pain was just to my knee and back, but it’s started going down farther. I’m currently sleeping on the couch before I can’t lift my leg to get in my bed (it’s a higher then normal bed), and this has been going on for the last month or so like I stated above.
Is there a doctor on here or someone that’s gone through something similar that could maybe give me an idea of what exactly this could be because if it’s a disc issue then I’m basically looking at surgery and missing a lot of the last 9 weeks of the school year which the 9 weeks starts tomorrow and I’ve already missed basically half of this semester.

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16 Y/o With Recurring Hip Pain That Spreads To Lower Back/leg?

Lower Left Back/leg Pain…doctors Have Ideas, No Exact Diagnosis Though. Help???