Sharp stabbing pain in my right hip

I am a 20 year old fit and healthy male who is a keen sports player.
I have experienced problems with my hip for a number of months now. It started off as a muscular type pain in my hip area and lower back/buttock area, mostly triggered after playing sports and my GP referred me to a physio. The physio though it was from a tight hamstring and i was given stretches to do however the problem wasn't resolved. The pain is now worse and seems to be more than just a muscular problem.
After playng sport recently I was suffering from severe back pain on the lower left side of my back and just above the buttock area, and had sharp pain in the area when moving - the pain was worst when attempting to lift my left leg. After around a week the pain in my back had recovered.
I have also recently been feeling the same pain in my hip that I felt in my back, and it is difficult to find exactly what starts the pain as I feel it at any time of the day. The pain can be a sharp and severe pain deep in my hip when i am simply sitting down or when I am active. I also noticed that the severe 'shooting' pain i felt in my hip would be triggered whenever i tilted my head/neck backwards.
I have been to see my GP again since these problems but I have been left unsatisfied as I was only told to take ibuprofen and paracetamol.
I feel that these problems are stopping me from leading a normal life and are interfering with me when playing sports and limit the exercise I am able to do.
When playing football I have experienced almost a weakness in my left leg and have had to stop at times as there is pain and a weak feeling down the outside of my leg from my hip down my thigh and down the outside of my calf to my ankle, and this pain can be felt all the way down my leg and in my foot also.
I feel that I have been left by my GP with unanswered questions and problems which are not being resolved.
Your help and thoughts on my problems are much appreciated and hopefully there are solutions to be found from the problems I am suffering with.
Thanks

hi everyone, i had a lot of the same problems. i had many doctor visits, and many of them didn't know what was wrong. some of them even gave me a diagnosis that didn't make since. after a couple of diagnostic tests, a surgeon looked specifically at the hip. he later diagnosed it as hip dysplasia. you can find it in dogs, but it can be found in mostly women and sometimes men. if the dysplasia is bad enough, you may need to have surgery. you can figure out how bad it is by xray and sometimes mri. i've had surgery this summer, and i'm so thankful that i did. i have to have it done in the other hip next summer, but i'm ready. it did help in the other hip, and i can't wait to get rid of this pain that i've had for almost 2 years.

Hi;
I have had the same pain myself. A friend of mine also did. She found out that nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, pepper) were causing the problem. They seem to extract calcium from the bones, especially the hip bones which is where most of our red blood cells are produced. Unfortunately I am still seeking the cause for the pain I've been experiencing as the nightshade-free diet I've been on hasn't helped. I also noticed a HUGE increase in the pain after taking a round of anti-biotics! Not sure what this all means but ultimately I think it is some kind of inflammation. Perhaps caused by stress. I am under an enormous amount of stress. Just have to find the source of inflammation and eliminate it. Perhaps this might be helpful to some of you who are experiencing pain. Don't give up until you figure it out!

I have had the same pain for 7 years. Hip started hurting when I carried my children so to fix that I quit carring them. Then it started hurting when I walked so to fix that I tried not to walk as much and take breaks as much as possible. Then it started to hurt when riding my Harley. I can not stop riding so I went to the doctor. First was an X-ray. Not good >:( . Then the MRI even worse >:( . Turns out my femour head is flattened and I have avascular necrosis and an appointment with a bone specialist. I hope it is not as bad as the doctor made it sound as a hip replacement is in order.

Get a HLA-b27 test done. The pain is most likely a symptom of Ankylosing Spondylitis. If not dealt immediately it will affect the spinal structure..

I'm so glad I am not the only one. I had it happen to me this morning. I got up to walk to the locker room and it started. It was so bad I was limping. And when my friends ask me what is wrong I feel like I should say nothing because it goes away a few minutes after it starts and I don't want them thinking I'm faking it. It is always in my right hip and makes me want to scream. I am about 5'5 or 5'6 and I am a female teenage athlete and I jusy can't figure out why this happens.

All I can say is see a doctor. I am an old man with children ages 7 to 27. Mine started 7 years ago and I just let it go because I had a family to feed. I became unemployed a year ago and started go to the VA Hospital and the tests started on all the things I let go for all the many years. The last thing I told the doctor about was this and it was in passing. The first thing was an X-Ray when the X-Ray showed it then an MRI was ordered. She told me that she was not a specialist but most likely a hip replacement was in order. I see a specialist this coming Tuesday.

I am 21 years old, always on the go and always on my feet. I am becomming an RN and asked a few of my professors what could cause this pain. If you have the type of pain taht feels like someone is taking a nail and pounding it into your hip then soon after the same pain travels down your leg until it reaches your toes most likly your body is lacking potassium. I was told to take a multi-vitamin and eat more banannas and guess what the pain went from daily to almost monthly.

Heyy, so I'm 16 years old, and i run for just about any team sport at my school, I'm having the same pain in both my hips, it's really sharp pains, that sometimes makes it impossible to handle, I noticed when I'm walking or running, it feels and sounds as if it's grinding and poping, not sure if anyone else had this, but i also noticed sometimes, if I move it in the wrong way there will be a quick and sharp pain, which I'm not quite sure how to describe, but I recently went to the Doctors for x-rays, and will post results, i've done some reaserch and my ideas are: Avascualr Necrosis, and a few others, (this generally occurs in elder people, but does have a tendency to occur in the youth) I also did some other research, and I'm not sure if this will work but try glucosamine. Thats all I have for now, good luck everyone!

im 16 and im having these same problems

3 months PT and then THR is what they want to do to me.

Try reading up on Avascular necrosis of the hip, pretty sure that's what I'm experiencing, seeing the Doc tomorrow.

*sigh*

I am 31 and have spent the last two weeks going to the chiropractor. The x-rays came back with nothing, but tell that to my back/hips. I was getting the same pains as most people mentioned. They really flared up at night when laying flat and then going to move. Ouch!
The way I have found to gain the relief was through the chips my doctor gave me. They are from a company called CieAura. They make a chip you were on the location of pain and it dampens the pain. At least it did for me. I went from a pain level of around 7-9 and now Im more in the 4-5 range. Not perfect, but no drugs either. Have had too many friends end up stuck on those pills long after the pain is gone. For those of you that want to give it a try ***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
Good luck and hope all your pains melt away!

Amazing... All of you with the same pains.

It started for me afew months ago.. and was very mild, but annoying. I went to ER when it got bad, and they said Hernia. So I started Motron 800 to control pain. That diagnosis confused me cause i could be sitting on the couch, driving, or doing ANYTHING.. or NOTHING and it would hit. Then I came back for something stronger when it got real bad and that PA thought it was intestinal. Finally saw Family Doc and he said Lymph nodes in thigh were inflammed, probably due to a recent flu that lasted 3 weeks. Now the pain has gotten unbearable.. i stop breathing the pain is so intense. It lasts typically 30seconds to 1 minute, it is constant but stuttering stabbing pain, hot with electric waves. I call it a "hot knife hooked up to a car battery" .. but not jokingly.

The last wave hit during work, at my kitchen, I opened a heat and hold to get out a pain. Suddenly the pain is already on the ground, people are calling my name, and I'm hunched over in the most blinding pain I have ever had. My hip was alive with that pain, the electricity feeling to go down my leg abit as the stabs continued.

By the time they got me to a hospital, my heart rate was up so high from the pain a nurse wanted to sedate me... but it was dropping steadily as i rested so Doc suggested against it.

The PA and Doc who saw me that day had no idea what it was after they ruled out a Hernia. Even the Lymph Node diagnosis brought on odd glances... Well I get my first MRI this week.. but reading all your posts I'm not feeling encouraged...

If ANYONE gets an answer to this.. or something that can help.. please post ASAP!
-Steve N, 29, Michigan.

A lot of these symptoms sound exactly like what I am dealing with. After 2 orthopedics, 4 x-rays, and 2 MRI's I was finally diagnosed with Transient Osteoporosis (another name Bone Marrow Edema Syndrome). The good news is that it will heal on its own (unlike Osteoporosis) but the bad news is that on average it takes 6-12 months to run its course. You can find a lot of info online... I hope this helps someone.