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Hi everyone,

I am not sure where to start. About 2 months ago I was doing yard work and when I woke up the next morning my right hip was on fire. I have always had popping and snapping in my hips, but never pain. I danced ballet for 18 years and also did cheer/tumbling. I went to urgent care and they didn’t see anything on xray but referred me to ortho. I started PT and saw ortho who saw impingement on xray and ordered hip MRI with contrast and he believes have a torn labrum. I have my MRI tomorrow.

I started getting tingling in my right foot/calf which they said had to be my back so I got a lumbar spine MRI which showed bilateral pars defect, spondylothesis, severe arthrosis and moderate nerve narrowing. PT started working on my nerve symptoms.

Here’s where I need some help.. the past week or so I have had an immense amount of pain deep in my right glute. Nothing seems to help it and it causes me to almost seize up from my glute down through my leg. I don’t know what else to do to try and alleviate this immense pain. I can handle my hip pain and my back pain, but this glute pain is debilitating. After 6 weeks of PT, my PT has stopped working on my hip and said conservative measures won’t help me.

I have tried Meloxicam (didn’t work) Diclofenac (also didn’t work) Naproxen (helped slightly) Tylenol, icy hot, lidocaine patches, heating pad. Is there anything else I could/should be trying? I’m only 37 and I feel like this hip issue is turning into a giant snowball of other issues.

Hello, I am looking for some advice as a concerned daughter. My father is 74 and was recently diagnosed with stage 2 prostate cancer. He previously had colon cancer. The plan was to do 28 rounds of radiation. They inserted the barrier gel to protect his rectum. After 11 rounds of radiation he was unable to pee and had severe vertigo. They had to insert a catheter for a week and tried to take it out and he was unable to pee again. His prostate is extremely oversized (and was prior to treatment) He now has a catheter for two weeks. They stopped radiation and said he needs to have surgery, but cannot have surgery for over 6 months until the barrier gel dissolves.

Does anyone have any familiarity with a similar situation? Is there no way to do surgery until the barrier gel dissolves? I have tried to urge my parents to get a second opinion at a larger/better hospital system but they seem content where he is.

Thank you for any insight!

Hi! First off, thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am at a loss with my husband and this seems like a good place to start.

I am 37F and my husband is 46M. We have two young children and have been married for 7 years. We have had some fights in the past related to him drinking. He does not drink every day but does not know when to stop when he starts. He frequently says that he doesn’t have a problem because he has a good job and is a good person. To make matters worse, he has a heart condition that gets exacerbated by him drinking and he frequently ends up in the hospital the day after he binges. He stopped drinking for a while but things have escalated recently.

He was very excited to smoke a brisket for Memorial Day. He woke up at 3am to get things going. I woke up at 6 with our sons and he was completely blacked out drunk. Completely incoherent and glassed over bloodshot eyes. I left him and focused on keeping my sons occupied and happy. About 2 hrs later he comes stumbling upstairs and says the brisket is ruined. He then passes out in our bed until 130pm. At this point, I am very upset with him and let him know how/why I was feeling the way that I was. He turned it around on me and got mad at me for being upset. A couple hours pass and his mom comes over for BBQ (which we don’t have any because dinner was already ruined) I stayed away and was doing some cleaning/packing for an upcoming trip. I go downstairs and he’s wasted drunk AGAIN. For the second time in one day after being blackout drunk this morning. Not only that, but he lied to me at first and tried to say I was smelling the alcohol from this morning. He got mad at me and said he wasn’t doing anything wrong and so what if he got drunk. He then started yelling and swearing at me, so I asked his mom to take him to her house for the night.

I am so sad. I am sad that my marriage has turned into this. I am sad that my children have witnessed their dad like this again. I am so scared that he is hurting himself. I know that he has to want help. I know that I can’t make him get help, but I feel so helpless and lonely. To make matters worse, we’re supposed to be leaving on a dream vacation on Wednesday and I don’t even want to go but cannot break my son’s hearts. I just don’t know what to do or where to turn.