Need some input. Not sure if this is something with my hip or not. ABout 10 days ago I went to bed totally fine and woke up in the middle of the night (thanks to my roomie making noise) with low back pain, feeling like my back was going out if I moved. was able to go back to sleep, and woke up okay, but walking the next few days at work, I had the occasional low back pain, with pain down my butt, across the calf. It hurts the most when I have been laying down/sleeping and i try to get up, end up with spasms and pain in my calf. I am laying face down on the bed as I write this, and rolling over, I feel a bit of a pop in the butt area. Mind u, 10 days later the pain is primarily in my butt, and it still radiates down into my shin, almost to the ankle. Not constant, not horrible, but still enough to be a pain in the butt, literally and figuratively! Once I am up I am fine. There is still pain, but not much and I'm okay walking. My chiro said after evaluating me last Friday that it's an "irritated disc" caused by stress and gave me exercises and instructions to ice at the end of the work day. Looked that up all over the internet and I can't find anything on an irritated disc.
Needless to say, I am really concerned that this in related to my THR, as this is my right hip we're talking about. Also, I just noticed today that when I lay on that side something along the side of the thigh, similar to right after surgery, when the fluid and tissue kind of left a mass, and it just needed to be massaged out. I really don't want to have to go back to my OS after all this time doing so extremely well, but I really don't think it's my back. For those who may ask, no, my chiro didn't order an x-ray. I wonder if I did something in my sleep when switching positions, but I don't know. Anyone?
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