Hi all. Need help with a symptom I’ve been suffering for a while now. About two years ago, I started suffering pretty bad hip aches. It came on suddenly, but persisted and affected my walking and balance (already bad and stiff) so much I had to buy a walking stick. I thought, like other various bone aches I’ve had in the past, that it would go away eventually especially in the summer as I’m one of the lucky ones that get relief from many symptoms with the extra natural Vit D of the hot months.
However, this didn’t happen and my walking got so bad that my chronic fatigue consultant referred me to a sports/musco-skeletal clinic who scanned me and found I have Osteoarthritis. He said it was only slight but suggested I have pain-killing injections. I’ve had two now and the relief that I get from them is minimal. What I want to know is, could something else be going on in addition to the Osteoarthritis? Is there anyone else that suffers hip joint pain with or without Osteoarthritis due to CFS ? And, because the next stage is probably a hip-operation, have you been helped by the op? The last thing I want to do is go through the stress of having an operation and still not get much relief because the CFS was the main culprit all along.
However, this didn’t happen and my walking got so bad that my chronic fatigue consultant referred me to a sports/musco-skeletal clinic who scanned me and found I have Osteoarthritis. He said it was only slight but suggested I have pain-killing injections. I’ve had two now and the relief that I get from them is minimal. What I want to know is, could something else be going on in addition to the Osteoarthritis? Is there anyone else that suffers hip joint pain with or without Osteoarthritis due to CFS ? And, because the next stage is probably a hip-operation, have you been helped by the op? The last thing I want to do is go through the stress of having an operation and still not get much relief because the CFS was the main culprit all along.