I am in a flare right now, and started experiencing hip pain yesterday. But it feels different than my other joints. It's more of a burning pain. If any of you have experienced hip pain, does it feel like the rest of your joints, or does it feel different?
Thanks :)
Mine started in my hip. It was diagnosed as bursitis. It made car rides excruciating. I now know that it was the beginning of my RA. The flares I have had since stay in my hands, rotater cuffs, wrists and I have had it in my jaw.
Hope you feel better tomorrow!!
My hip pain is the worse and it is a burning pain as you describe. It makes all activity and non-activity painful. I have to sit a certain way and I limp badly. My hip pain has dominated my life for the last year. Yes, it is ra but some doctor's don't want to acknowledge hip pain. Maybe because they can't see it.
I hope it goes away for you. Mine is pretty constant but does get better on some days. Rox
I just recently started having hip pain and I went to the doc. he told me the burning was the tendons responding to the inflammation in the joints. I get the burning sensation in the tops of my feet too. It is just different in the theighs because the tendons are deep.You might ask your doctor about a shot of cortisone. That helps me a lot.
I've had this problem for years as well. Hang in there.
Never really had hip pain like my other ra pain, but I've had sciatica. My hip hurt & the pain would go down my leg, I couldn't get comfortable laying or sitting and driving was almost impossible. It was awful. It was from inflamation on the hip nerve that caused it. It lasted about 8 months, but thank goodness it went away, for some people it never goes away.
Have you ever heard of rolling?? They sell these balls at Costco with a book on it. My trainer uses a plastic cylinder and rolls it with pressure on my back and butt. I lay on my side and she rolls my hip at the I.T. band. It is so painful. I bought one of the cylinders on line and I try to roll my hip with my own body weight. Does this make any sense?? Well ...it is getting better. I refuse to give in to this disease!I have fluid on my right hip. It kind of gave out on me on a very rainy day. Scared me. They did an MRI which is what I would suggest. They can see a lot of damage on an MRI rather than an Xray. Even tendonitis will show up on an Xray. It they'll approve that for you, it can really help them come up with treatments that will help with the pain.
I have problems with my shoulder and the MRI showed a bone cyst, tendonitits and bone spur. With the information, they can customize my physical therapy and it does may a big difference now in the pain that I'm having.
DB-I know all about sciattica...it is miserable. I started getting when I was pregnant with the second kiddo and I still have problems with it from time to time. It hurts and all you can do is take anti inflammatory pills for about 2 days before you start getting relief. Ice paks help too.
Gena-I wonder if that is supposed to work like counter pressure?
Be sure you don't ignore the hip pain. It can affect how you walk and actually lead to one leg becoming shorter than the other. Physical therapy can help prevent this and give you relief and greater function.
The other thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that prednisone can cause bone necrosis or bone death. That's why an MRI is so important. That's what they originally thought might be my problem because it felt like my hip collapsed. It was the fluid. Pain in the groin area is reason to be concerned. Make sure the doctor checks it out and doesn't go, "Oh, you hurt. That's normal for RA." Sure hurting is normal with RA. But I told them that my shoulder was hurting for a year and they didn't investigate it further. Now, I can barely use it and having to go through very painful physical therapy and may have to just learn to deal with damage and pain as surgery isn't an option.
So where exactly do you feel the pain because i have pain ocassionally I would say that it is on the outside part of my leg. Where my leg and but or hip is but it on the side of my body. Does this make since to aanyone. My pain is on the outside of the hip..right where you said phxgirl. I have had bursitis and it does feel a little like that, but I haven't had it in years, I was surprised to have it come back. I will tell her about it though in case it is not bursitis but something more.Mine is there too, with that burning sensation traveling down the theigh. The bruised feeling is further toward the back on my but though. I only feel it when there is pressure there.