Hi to everyone!
Thanks so much for the outpouring of advise and concern.
I am going to look into going outside the medical group for another opinion.
Don't get me wrong, I am not denying what any of you are saying is true, I know you all know how this feels, what it feels like and how frustrating it is. That is why I came here, after going thru having my knee replaced with the help of a forum, I knew I would get the facts and reputable advise here.
I own my own business and I make and sell my own stickers and apparel at a recreational area about 3 hours from here. I work all week making stickers, (sitting), embroidering and screenprinting apparel, (standing). My season there is from the start of October until the end of April. I set up a shop there that I open every weekend, and holidays are huge there, very busy. Since we rely heavily on the success of our season, I cannot be down at all during that time. I am the only one who makes all the product. My husband and I both do sales, but he has a full time job of his own to worry about. Needless to say, as much as I wish there was time in there to look after myself, there is not. That time is non-negotiable, I cannot miss work or I loose money. So now, with loosing my surgery date, I have to wait until next May before I have any time to do a surgery.
I am sorry if I didn't make myself clear before, but no, I am not having surgery the 30th, and the time frame I am now dealing with is getting other opinions before next May, when I can have something done with my hip.
I most certainly don't feel as tho any of you are being critical of me at all. I welcome all of your opinions, I am stubborn in my own right, but I can take advise and will do so. I just don't have any time for surgery left, so now I am in the position of having to deal with this, which, I will admit has been quite the blow to my mental state. It's hard to think of dealing with this pain for longer, it was hard enough going thru last working season with it, but I really felt I had a light at the end of the tunnel I was working toward, but that light got shut off, now I need to get another one turned on!
I have had a couple people offer me the names of doctors that they liked, and, like I said, I will look into what it will take to go outside the group. I must say that I did get doctors going against each other in my group, my OS was the one who was looking for someone to agree with him, it was everyone else who did not agree with him, so no buddy, buddy pal stuff going on that I saw, they were flat out disagreeing with him, so not sure all doctors in the same group automatically go the same way the wind is blowing.
Just to be specific and get my story straight. I see OS-1, on a regular basis, he did my knee and spine surgeries. My hip started giving me problems just after my last spine surgery last July. My groin was killing me after only sitting a short time. I thought it was my spine, OS-1 did x-rays, said no, it was my hip. He did a CT Scan and saw that my hip was almost half way bone on bone. He watched it for a while and the pain just got worse, he sent me to OS-2 for a second opinion. OS-2 Said the scan and x-rays did not show enough deterioration of the hip, nothing there required surgery at that time. My OS-1 did a bone scan and MRI before sending me to OS-3 for a 3rd opinion. OS-3 took x-rays in April and compared them to x-rays OS-1 took in November. Comparing the two, they showed a dramatic loss of cartiledge from November to April, so OS-3 agreed that a replacement was in order. Then came the last visit I made to OS-3 to see if he could do the surgery, he took another x-ray and the difference between April to July showed very little difference. He felt the hip had showed it stabilized somewhat and that it should be watched, but that it should not be replaced until it was 100% bone on bone. Hopefully spreading the history out like that helps somewhat.
I need to find someone who can at the very least treat this pain issue that I am stuck with. My OS-1, goes on vacation next week, which leaves me with noone to prescribe pain meds for me. I have not had any sort of continual attention to my pain, I have to deal with a lot of it. From your postings, I take it pain management isn't going to work, so going to need to figure something out. I actually have not been contacted in any way about pain management, so no telling if that will even materialize.
Just a bit of insight here, I have, in the past even tried medical marijuana for the pain, it's legal here, had my prescription and everything, then decided it wasn't for me, I didn't care to run around high all the time just to numb the pain a bit, so I didn't get the rave results some do.
I don't want any of you to stop offering your opinions, I value them, I really do. I will be looking into my options for leaving the medical group, and I will let you know what I find out, thanks so much all!
Lisa
United Kingdom
That's not independent opinions! They're chums, they meet in their coffee room at the practive or at the golf club and so never one will go against the other. 
