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Question: Hello, I'm suffering with pain in my upper left leg. I'm a 58 year old healthy male. After sitting for a short while and especially getting out of bed, my upper leg is very sensitive and painful once I step down on it. Then, after 15 - 30 seconds, it's as if something goes back into alignment and it's okay. This has been going on for about a week. The pain is near the hip or just below it.
Brief Answer:
May be trochanteric bursitis.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
If the pain is near the side of the hip rather than near the groin, this may be some inflammation of the bursa of the greater trochanter (part of the upper leg bone - femur). But to really know for sure, you would need to go in to a doctor who can pin point where the pain is and likely do an X-ray to exclude underlying disease.
Treatment, if it turns out to be trochanteric bursitis, is rest, physical therapy, and NSAIDs such as ibuprofen (which are taken after you have some food in your stomach, and providing you have no stomach problems).
I hope this helps.
May be trochanteric bursitis.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
If the pain is near the side of the hip rather than near the groin, this may be some inflammation of the bursa of the greater trochanter (part of the upper leg bone - femur). But to really know for sure, you would need to go in to a doctor who can pin point where the pain is and likely do an X-ray to exclude underlying disease.
Treatment, if it turns out to be trochanteric bursitis, is rest, physical therapy, and NSAIDs such as ibuprofen (which are taken after you have some food in your stomach, and providing you have no stomach problems).
I hope this helps.
Note: For further queries, consult a joint and bone specialist, an Orthopaedic surgeon. Book a Call now.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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