Hi Chris
I am having severe back and leg problems at the moment, after having lower back pain and progressively weaker legs for years. The pain is focused on my right hip, but is also across my lower back, in my right buttock and right front thigh, wanders down to my knee occasionally. I also have 'spider-crawl' feelings on my lower leg, and numb skin patches across my shin. I can barely move around the house, and I'm actually more comfortable walking bent forward. Aaargh! :shock:
Yesterday was murder - I couldn't lie on front, back or either side without pain, can't sit, can't stand, just as painful with weight off hip as with weight on it.
Anyway, I went to see the doc today about the results of last week's X-ray. I do have osteoathritis in both hips and my lower spine, but this appears not to have degenerated any further in the past 6 or so years since the last one.
However - Doc has suggested Spinal Stenosis, and is going to pursue this, as well as referring me to the physio and doing B12 and folic acid blood tests.
I Googled 'lumbar spinal stenosis' (he told me to - how well he knows me! :lol: ) and every single problem I have been moaning about for the last 10 years is there, listed as a symptom. It's a narrowing of the spinal canal which squeezes and constricts the all or some of the many nerves in that area, producing pain in one or both legs. Relatively common in older people, as the spine is affected by wear and tear.
So we'll be following that through, maybe even with a CT scan. Anyone had one of those?
I hope yours gets better. Let me know how you go on - I'll do the same.
I may have to stop blaming the statins for my painful legs :shock: - not yet though! :lol:
Viv 8)