ps:
many people (including me) experience that glucosamine with chondrotitin ... can provide significant pain relief, it apparently goes to the joints and layers in some of the missing surface material. I am not an expert but I do find that this stuff helps me, and I have several friends who’ve had same positive results.
I am NOT suggesting this as a cure.
I am suggesting you ask your doctors if they’ve any objection to your trying it awhile, and then do so if OK by them.
It may take a couple weeks for you to start feeling the difference, so keep at it awhile.
It is very commonly available in almost all major drug stores and online like Amazon in pill form. Inexpensive.
I do not take well to pills.
So, I take mine in liquid form now.
Wellesse brand 33.8 fluid ounce plastic bottles, available many places including online...I usually find the best price is offered at Costco.com
it is “natural berry flavor” — it doesn’t taste particularly wonderful but if you screw up your face a bit, it tastes tolerably OK. Far better tasting then the regular pill form, at least.
Check your doctors and if they give you the OK, then this might (after a couple weeks maybe to start in) help relieve some of your pain, pending any surgical correction.
So far in my case, it has staved off, prevented the need for surgery....
All the best,
faithhopecharity
None of this will relieve the bone on bone condition that this man has....
I am experiencing the same left hip pain as described in the article. Plus my sciatic nerve is causing my lower left calf muscle & thigh muscle to constantly throb with pain as well. I just started experiencing these symptons in the last 6 months up to now. I tried Osteo-BiFlex and went to a chiropractor with very little change in the pain or locations or sypmtons. I am 60 yrs old, and very frustrated that I now hobble & limp like an old man. My father is 97 yrs old and can walk nearly as good as I am hobbling right now. Bummer! Very discouraging. I had x-rays at both the chiropractor and the Mayo Clinic. My follow-up appointment at Mayo Clinic is not until June 25.
I really am hoping to find some type of cure without having to do Hip replacement, as I am not sure that will also solve my sciatic nerve discomfort & pain.