I'm too young for hip problems!

[monkey68]

I'm only 23, isn't that too young for hip problems? I'm telling you, the past couple days, I've been feeling like an old woman because my hip hurts! I've been putting IcyHot and massaging it, and it doesn't do anything. I'm considering using one of those lidocaine patches that I have left over from when I hurt my back. I don't even know what I did, I don't think I fell, I didn't get my leg caught in anything. Maybe I sit too much at the library and that's why it hurts, I really don't know.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Best to see a doctor about this pain! Could be something else than arthritis. Good luck.

 

[Axel]

Sorry. I just really couldn't help but laugh. Because I can sympathize.

I'm 17. I was "diagnosed" with Bursitis, Tendinitis, and Plantar Faciitis when I was 15.

I was just recently told that my left leg is longer than my right (by about an eighth to a quarter inch) and thus I have major hip and back problems.

I can really sympathize with you, though. It sucks getting it young.

But yeah, I concur with the above poster. I'd go see a doc and get it checked out ASAP. It may be worse than you think, as any number of nerves run through your hips.