43 year old male suffering with greater trochanter bursitis for several years. I was misdiagnosed by my ortho who told me I have AVN (avascular necrosis). Went to a new DR same thing. I finally went to a pain management Dr. who said I have bursitis not AVN. He gave me an injection into the bursa with great results for the first two months, went back for 3 more without the same result. Now I don't know where to turn. Back to another ortho or to the pain Dr to see if there is anything else we can do. This is really affecting my life in a negative way now. Can't sleep, walk long distances, etc......

I just recently turned 24, and I have had painful hip bursitis (trocanteric bursitis) since mid-high school. It's awful. It started gradually, and gradually worsened. I was on Cross Country and Track, which I guess is what caused it. At first it would just be a sudden, shooting pain from my hip down the side of my leg only rarely, then it was more frequent, but overall less sharp. Now I can't even sleep on my side because it causes too much pain. I've taken boatloads of ibuprophen, etc. and I even went to a doctor who gave me a cortisone injection, but that just helped for a couple weeks and then it came back. This really frustrates me, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life with it, but I don't feel there's much I can do.

I am a 63 year old female. I've had sciatica for several years and thought that this might be an off shoot from it. My right leg-from hip to below the knee hurts 24/7. Sleeping is out of the question! I haven't had a full night's sleep in months. I've had the Cortisone shot and it helped for about a minute. The outside of my knee feels like the tendons will SNAP when I go upstairs. I am an avid walker and this has really impacted my quality of life.

I have had two falls on the ice here in good ol' icy Colorado. Blew a disc, not bad enough for surgery. After that therapy ended, fell on left hip, yes, on ice! Can't sleep on that side anymore and I can't cross my legs Indian style anymore. Can't take anti-inflammatory, heart attack three years ago. Walk 2-4 miles a day for work in a hospital, lots of stairs. Second round of therapy, he suggests injections, but they didn't work for my disc. Have a 13 year old and this is so unfair that I can't even get down on the floor with him or take walks to the park. Have to take a bit of vicodin just to sleep. Crazy!

I'm 48 years old and 6 years ago I had right hip replacement, I had severe osteoarthritis with bone on bone, it was the best surgery I ever had, but now I have arthritis forming in left hip with the burning pain in top of thigh and pain when sitting, but the x-rays show good joint space and very little arthritis but my hip gives way on me too. The Dr just put me on a sleep medication/anxiety and mobic (antinflammatory which I can't take because it causes severe dizziness and stomach pain) I don't want to start taking 800 mg of Ibuprophen like I used to.

I am a 40 year old Female. I have had hip, back and neck pain for over a year now. I had and MRI and x-rays done. I have been going to the doctor for about a year now also. I have gone to several specialists to find out what is wrong and why I am in so much pain. I have been told that I have bulging disks, and other problems. Today I had gone to an Orthopedic Surgeon and he had told me that I am fine. He doesn't see anything really wrong with me. Except that in my hip I have bursitis. The way he diagnosed me was by me standing in front of him and he had me do a couple of exercises. He ended up putting a referral in for me for a physical therapist. I had already gone through that and it didn't help me at all. He also ended up giving me a cortisone injection. That really hurt. I hope this injection helps. I am getting tired of not being able to sleep. I sit down all day at work doing data entry. I was also told that it was caused by work. Sitting all day long. People just can't leave their jobs.

About five and half years ago (I was teaching in high school and traveled from room to room pulling a cart with about 100 pounds of materials) when I began to have pain in both hips. I went to a rheumatologist who diagnosed me with trochanteric bursitis. He began giving me injections of Kenalog 40 into both bursa. Within 24 hours of the first injections I felt like a new person. The pain was gone. I retired four years ago and I'm in my fifteenth year of tai chi and I'm still taking injections every five weeks.