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I have snapping hip syndrome. My hips will “click” in and out of place and it is painful. If I put too much weight on either hip, it will literally pop out of place. Certain activities certainly aggravate it (like prolong periods of driving).
I got a steroid shot by my pain management doctor about a month ago from writing this article. Last year I got the same two shots and it was fine. This year, I am not having too much luck. I am not sure if it’s from the driving sessions I have been doing for work or what.
But it feels like I have two small sharks biting my hips and are latched on. On bad flare days, I really just want to curl up and cry because even with my strongest pain medicine, it still really hurts. Today, it is close to being one of those days.
There is not much you can do for this issue beyond pain management strategies through exercise, physical therapy (big maybe if that’ll help), and surgery (normally reserved for those bedbound daily in pain). My parents did not seem to understand how bad this pain was in my hips until I called my mother late at night when I was in college around ages 19–20 years old (because I was in so much pain). I got diagnosed when I was 16 and my parents could not wrap their heads around the fact that their daughter who is a teenager suddenly has this big chronic pain problem.
I am really hoping that when I was given the shot this time around, they did not misplace the shot (because otherwise, in their words “it’ll give you little to no relief”). If they did, I am back to square one with how to manage my pain in my hips with the different pain medications and my TEN’S unit.
